Can the PKK Lay Down its Arms?
Unless the PKK articulates the phrase we can disarm hypothetically, its disarmament in reality will not be possible.
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Turkey's Kurdish Problem
The real issue rose when Kurdish uprisings rose against Kemalism in response to the imposition of Turkification policies on Kurds, who were, in effect, natives of Anatolia.
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Turkey in 2013 will have the potential to stand out as an island of political stability and security both regionally and globally.
It would be accurate to interpret the United States and the Wests increasing interest in Syria as a rush to secure a role in the scenario in which the Baath regime is nearing its end.
Turkey should recognize that the neighbors with which it will likely share its longest borders are not Syria and Iraq, but Kurdish political entities.
When the AK Party came to power in 2002, the people were finally able to say stop to the gang that took the state hostage during the 1990s.
New Turkey, the PKK and Jet Lag
The Kurdish political movement and PKK maintain discourses and activities similar to the ones they exhibited in old Turkey.
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Turkish-American Partnership 2.0?
The new paradigm in relations seems to be working so far in critical issue areas, including Syria and NATO’s missile shield.
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For the PKK, the process can only go from the initial “Defeat in the 1990s” to the “Second Defeat” in the 2010s.
SETA-DC PANEL DISCUSSION Chair: Kadir Ustun, SETA-DC Speakers: Daniel Levy, New America Fnd. Stevn A. Cook, Council on F.R. Erol Cebeci,SETA-DC Date: September 19, 2011 Monday Venue: SETA-DC, Washington
Turkey, after a long time, is undertaking elections to build a new future instead of overcoming a crisis situation.
The world’s economics in 2010 were still struggling to overcome the financial crisis, which began in 2008 in the United States and became global in 2009.
The survey “Turkey's Perception of the Kurdish Issue,” jointly conducted by the Foundation for Political, Economic and Social Research (SETA) and PollMark, has yielded quite important sociological findings on the relations between Turks and Kurds. The research was undertaken to reveal the content and the grounds of the social relations between the two communities, the current phase of social integration and whether terror and violence have caused lack of trust and confidence between these social groups. The survey shows that the will and desire for coexistence transcends ideological, ethnic and political identities. The research points out that despite the lengthy period of violence and terror, political polemics and crises, there is still no environment of distrust or enmity between Turks and Kurds and that the country is not threatened by the danger of ethnic violence over Turkishness or Kurdishness.
A Brookings-SETA Policy Conference on Turkey University of California, Washington Center 1608 Rhode Island Ave, NW Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki’s visit to Ankara last Tuesday is important for the current state of Turkish-Iraqi relations. The visit focused on trade and security, and these are two crucial areas for both countries
The Turkish general elections are set to take place this Sunday. If there is no major disruption at the last moment, we should expect a “normal” election. But can Turkish politics normalize after the stakes have been raised to almost irrational levels?
CONFERENCE February 8, 2007 German Marshall Fund, Washington DC
