Eclipsed from the headlines by the ongoing carnage, there is an active
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it protects, and the jihadi and Ba'athist 'resistance' alike.
Submitted by Azad Zakhoi (not verified) on Mon, 08/08/2005 - 12:53.
Turkey and the Kurds
It would not be wrong to say that the Kurdish Question is the fundamental cause of instability in Turkey. Failing to take a positive a step forwards to solve the problem, Turkey tries instead to rouse the outside world by playing on the terrorist threat posed by the PKK, although the latest decision by the PKK to go to war and the intensification of armed conflict has been undertaken with the full knowledge of the ‘deep’ state. The only side not to be in the know on this matter has been the AK Party.
As is common knowledge, PKK leader, Abdullah Ocalan, is detained on Imrali Island under the control of the General Staff. During the PKK/Kongra Gel’s Second Conference - at a time when there was neither grounds nor cause for it - and despite opponents coming out against it, Kongra Gel took the decision to go to war in June 2004 on an order brought from Imrali Island by Abdullah Ocalan’s lawyers,. The order was made during the lawyer’s visit to Imrali with military personnel on duty. In other words, the Turkish military was aware of the decision to go to war and provoked it. In any event, one conspicuous after-effect of this decision was the breaking away from the PKK of most of its compos mentis political activists today comprising the PWD (Democratic Patriotic Party of Kurdistan). So, now, then, let’s lay out the position clearly:
Firstly, the PKK’s renewed spiral of violence and the interception of those militants entering Turkey with C4 explosive - in almost every case before it is detonated, is no coincidence and is being carried out with the full complicity of the Turkish army. Abdullah Ocalan and the General Staff are orchestrating this scheme.
Secondly, in falling for the ploy that has also led to the AK Party adopting a harsher tone and drawing closer to the General Staff, the PKK has committed a very serious error.
Thirdly, so far as the political struggle in the legal arena is concerned, the DTH, headed by Leyla Zana and Hatip Dicle’s group, has been stillborn and its lack of success lies in equal measure to its having failed to take a stand against this policy and towards the PKK.
Fourthly, instead of seeking any resolution of the Kurdish problem, through these kinds of ploys the Turkish state has taken an axe to the positive developments.
Fifthly, when the Turkish state wanted the PKK to abandon its weapons, when refusing to work with the democratic Kurdish opposition and the PWD as a side that had abandoned its weapons, she continued to pursue her essential policy as before.
Finally, the US and democratic world has unfortunately thus far indirectly helped Turkey in the development of this retrogressive policy by not taking the PWD seriously and entering relations with the party despite it being the force with the greatest chance to positively influence the PKK’s support base. The PWD’s efforts to develop relations with the US and with Israel are known.
Despite the PKK/Kongra-Gel having declared their intention to annihilate the group, no one bothered to take any notice and Sipan Rojhilat, Kemale Sor and Hikmet Fidan, HADEP’s former assistant general secretary, were murdered. Although the Turkish intellectual lobby and well-known names in the Turkish press spoke out, still the Turkish state remained silent.
In short, Turkey won’t take a step towards resolving her own internal problems or develop the necessary policies to do so but is criticising the outside world because of the tensions these problems have led to.
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Turkey and the Kurds
It would not be wrong to say that the Kurdish Question is the fundamental cause of instability in Turkey. Failing to take a positive a step forwards to solve the problem, Turkey tries instead to rouse the outside world by playing on the terrorist threat posed by the PKK, although the latest decision by the PKK to go to war and the intensification of armed conflict has been undertaken with the full knowledge of the ‘deep’ state. The only side not to be in the know on this matter has been the AK Party.
As is common knowledge, PKK leader, Abdullah Ocalan, is detained on Imrali Island under the control of the General Staff. During the PKK/Kongra Gel’s Second Conference - at a time when there was neither grounds nor cause for it - and despite opponents coming out against it, Kongra Gel took the decision to go to war in June 2004 on an order brought from Imrali Island by Abdullah Ocalan’s lawyers,. The order was made during the lawyer’s visit to Imrali with military personnel on duty. In other words, the Turkish military was aware of the decision to go to war and provoked it. In any event, one conspicuous after-effect of this decision was the breaking away from the PKK of most of its compos mentis political activists today comprising the PWD (Democratic Patriotic Party of Kurdistan). So, now, then, let’s lay out the position clearly:
Firstly, the PKK’s renewed spiral of violence and the interception of those militants entering Turkey with C4 explosive - in almost every case before it is detonated, is no coincidence and is being carried out with the full complicity of the Turkish army. Abdullah Ocalan and the General Staff are orchestrating this scheme.
Secondly, in falling for the ploy that has also led to the AK Party adopting a harsher tone and drawing closer to the General Staff, the PKK has committed a very serious error.
Thirdly, so far as the political struggle in the legal arena is concerned, the DTH, headed by Leyla Zana and Hatip Dicle’s group, has been stillborn and its lack of success lies in equal measure to its having failed to take a stand against this policy and towards the PKK.
Fourthly, instead of seeking any resolution of the Kurdish problem, through these kinds of ploys the Turkish state has taken an axe to the positive developments.
Fifthly, when the Turkish state wanted the PKK to abandon its weapons, when refusing to work with the democratic Kurdish opposition and the PWD as a side that had abandoned its weapons, she continued to pursue her essential policy as before.
Finally, the US and democratic world has unfortunately thus far indirectly helped Turkey in the development of this retrogressive policy by not taking the PWD seriously and entering relations with the party despite it being the force with the greatest chance to positively influence the PKK’s support base. The PWD’s efforts to develop relations with the US and with Israel are known.
Despite the PKK/Kongra-Gel having declared their intention to annihilate the group, no one bothered to take any notice and Sipan Rojhilat, Kemale Sor and Hikmet Fidan, HADEP’s former assistant general secretary, were murdered. Although the Turkish intellectual lobby and well-known names in the Turkish press spoke out, still the Turkish state remained silent.
In short, Turkey won’t take a step towards resolving her own internal problems or develop the necessary policies to do so but is criticising the outside world because of the tensions these problems have led to.