The Meaning of the Protests
The discourse over the protest shows more of a tendency for psychological analyses than a political stance. Explanations such as “fear, feeling confined and repressed” do not offer us any political clarification.
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Political Solution in Syria!
What Russia understands from a political solution is the Kadirov model and what Iran understands from the political solution is a scenario of “forever-negotiation-nihilism” as it is the case in its nuclear program. Is either to propose a realistic political solution to the Syrian crisis?
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The AK Party, as the author of many firsts in the resolution of the Kurdish issue, has taken a huge lead over other parties.
The reshuffling of Turkey's domestic and foreign policy over the last decade has finally led to a solution for Kurds.
Judging from the scene revealed by the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party), the paradigm has bankrupted and the transition to a new order has already begun since the world of friends and enemies who stood by the tutelage regime for years is totally confused now.
ErdoÄŸan carried the country away from an undeclared bankruptcy into a great transformation in 10 years.
The Kurdish Issue and the Political Parties
A far-right party, the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), owes its post-1980 existence to a great extent to the Kurdish issue and the terrorist acts of the PKK.
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Quo Vadis PKK?
If the outlawed Kurdistan WorkersÂ’ Party (PKK) believes that a withdrawal to Kandil only will be sufficient, the other phases of the solution process may be put into practice arduously.
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Öcalan has recognized the fact that Turkey’s democratic consolidation would be delayed as long as the PKK continued to hold arms.
As the parties take a political-stress-test in the solution process, all of the actors who fail to play a founding-role will have to suffer structural fractures, independently of the survival or success of the process.
It seems that with the PKKÂ’s disarmament these political positions will have to disarm politically.
For years, the liberal/left discourse in Turkey misconstrued the “identity” debate to describe the “Kurdish question” through the Western-informed lens of the distinction between “good” and “bad.”
The old TurkeyÂ’s only actor who has changed neither radically nor genuinely, nor has even discussed the change, is the Turkish mainstream media.
The peace process will give us the opportunity to devise a more assertive and broader future by reconstructing a common “we” on a more righteous and healthier ground.
Given the projected direction and strategic vision of the message and notions used in the statement, this message represents a mental transformation and a paradigm change.
The million-dollar question, is this: Will the PKK manage to make tough decisions in 2013Â’s Turkey, where the tutelage regime is almost completely gone?
Kemalism has maintained its course through a kind of political reincarnation and via different groups of elites. Today, we face a similar picture under several headings, from the Syrian revolt to the solution of the Kurdish question.
If the PKK turns into a political actor and gives way to legal political channels, Turkey with this century-old political energy will not only guarantee social peace in a short period of time but also strengthen economic and political stability.
Turkey needs to draw lessons from the past and take necessary steps to facilitate the process.
The statements of government circles, new initiatives taken by the CHP (Republican PeopleÂ’s Party) and the interview with Leyla Zana among others boosted hopes once again.
