Will Edgeworth Turn over in His Grave?
Unless the emerging picture of the last ten days leave the world of psychological stresses, camouflaged objections and selfish sensitivities behind, and is not transformed into a “clear political” position, it will not leave a long lasting impression in the world of politics except psychological tensions.
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What Really Happened in Turkey?
A wish for the AK Party to be thrown out of power through undemocratic means is not a stance that can bring about meaningful political change. ItÂ’s a psychological reflex from a bygone era.
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Most of the evaluations that have been made by the media and political circles regarding Turkish foreign policy in Syria have three characteristics in common: They are void of Syria, baseless and conspiratorial.
The AK Party, as the author of many firsts in the resolution of the Kurdish issue, has taken a huge lead over other parties.
That Turkey has not signed a new stand-by agreement with the IMF does not necessarily mean that Turkey – IMF relations have come to an end.
The AK Party decade in Turkish foreign policy has been an age of change and transformation.
The ‘Threats' Building the Future
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.
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The Resolution Process and AK Party
ErdoÄŸan carried the country away from an undeclared bankruptcy into a great transformation in 10 years.
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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.
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.
The dynamics of the current political climate in Turkey, which make impossible to create a new Constitution based on consensus among political parties, can be discussed under three headings.
With the occupation in Iraq, the primitive Middle Eastern eco-system, and with the Arab revolts, the Camp David order collapsed. The new regional order is being rapidly shaped by the new actors at the cost of the century-old status quo.
Belated Kurdish nationalism perhaps could not give anything to the Kurds, but it surely bestowed at least 20 years to the regime of tutelage for it to survive.
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 message of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Öcalan promises, with its most general terms, a quite different world from the 30-year-old clichés.
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?
