The Assurances of the New Resolution Process
The opportunity offered to the PKK to disarm today soon will be forced on it due to the newly shaping Mesopotamian geopolitics and ecosystem.
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The Gravity of the Solution Process
Öcalan becomes the first PKK actor who sees the disarmament of the PKK during the solution process not as a matter of choice but a necessity.
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The AK Party makes the understanding the pillar of its policy that the status quo which maintains no-solution as its foundation can no longer be maintained.
The re-initiation of the İmralı talks is putting the political parties of the new Turkey through a very realistic test, albeit unintentionally.
it is clear that the post-2002 Middle East has new circumstances, and each actors ability to adapt to these will determine its future.
Today the PKK has to step up and pay the price for its role as an obstacle along Turkish peoples path to the democratic standards they desire.
Politics in 2012
The following analysis summarizes recent developments on two items in Turkeys political agenda: the anti-tutelage struggle; and the PKKs disarmament and the resolution of the Kurdish question.
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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 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.
During Ergenekon hearing, CHP deputies joined forces with radical left actors including the Workers Party (İP) and the TGB.
If the Kurds want to realize their demand they must first become one of the main actors of the resistance movement to depose al-Assad in a way that does not leave room for doubt.
Does the PKK, in the context of Turkey’s Kurdish question, intend to lay down its arms under any circumstance?
Turkey should recognize that the neighbors with which it will likely share its longest borders are not Syria and Iraq, but Kurdish political entities.
It is necessary to get rid of national security concerns based on false assumptions of past years in order to ensure social peace and regional effectiveness.
The PKK, which missed by a long shot the transformation both Turkey and the Middle East undertook as evidence by the more blood it continues to shed, will continue to be a burden to the Kurds.
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.
The Kurdish political movement and PKK maintain discourses and activities similar to the ones they exhibited in old Turkey.
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.
