What shall be the
Next? The International Recognition of PKK and Its’ Place in the Road Map to
Peace in Turkey
By: Hadi Elis
Oct 30, 2007
There is a well, however wrongly known issue in Turkey. What is called “Kurdish
problem in Turkey” is in fact “The Turkish problem of Kurdistan”.
It is also known that Republic of Turkey denies and destroys anything and
everything related to the Kurds/Kurdistan around the World, involves, interferes
and lies wherever, however, and whenever suits its interests, since 1923.
Since then Turkish State illegalized being Kurdish, speaking Kurdish, and etc in
such an extremely oppressive way that only Institutionalized Racism can explain
the assimilation’ policies put in practices.
The Real Resistance and protest to the Turkish State’s Terrorism and Racist
policies in Kurdistan comes from the PKK, (Kurdistan Workers Party), since
August 15, 1984, when PKK declared “Struggle for National Self-determination”.
Off course it was easy for Turkey to call Kurdish National Movement so-called
“Terrorist” where you have had the backing, help and support of NATO, EU, and
USA blindly.
After ten years of Armed Resistance to the Turkish State Terrorism and Racism,
PKK had forced the Turkish Government to acknowledge the “existence of the
Kurdish people in Turkey”, and speaking Kurdish (only speaking?) was legalized
with lifting the one of the most shameful law of human History on the Kurdish
language.
With the PKK’s achievements growing day to day, supporters growing day to day,
the so-called Kurdish problem in Turkey became well known in the international
community where “what is the solution?” become the second part of the issue.
“What is the solution?” is depend how the conflicting sides, including the third
parties, would like to see the war end.
EU, USA and NATO for years have been busy thinking how to eliminate PKK, pacify
Kurdish people, and reduce their democratic and ethnic rights demands to very
limit linguistic and cultural rights, like a Diaspora minority living in a
western country.
With the passing time, it become clear that the above mentioned approach will
not work, now some new ideas put forward as better solution, such as the new
report come out at October 15, 2007, written by Dr. David L. Phillips for the
National Committee on American Foreign Policy ( www.ncafp.org) titled “
Disarming, Demobilizing, and Reintegrating the Kurdistan Worker’s Party”.
A little background information needed to be presented in order to better
understand where it stands in evaluating the Kurdish question in Turkey. In the
last decade the world has witnessed the peace talks between PLO/ISRAEL, IRA/UK,
LTTE/SRI LANKA, FARC/COLUMBIA, ETA/SPAIN, etc. Also we should remember that
there were Third Party (countries) involvements in these peace talks.
In the peace talk process of these conflicts, the conflicting sides were
recognizing each other, so the sit around the table affair was made possible.
For so many times in the recent pasts PKK has been offering peace talks and
having a dialogue to end this conflict, which the news and intentions made
internationally known. However with Turkey’s international trade, commerce and
politico-military ties it was made impossible for any country to involve as an
Third Party. The case of Italy is still fresh in our minds.
Since 2003 Turkey has been making wrong political decisions internally and
internationally where Turkish-EU and Turkish-USA relations are never been this
worse in their history. It all started with Turkey refusing to help US in their
“re-democratizing Iraq” project with removing brutal-inhumane dictator Saddam
Hussein and his BAATH Regime from power.
Things started changing for the Kurdish people in Iraq and other parts of
Kurdistan slowly but surely. The political and economic development in the
Iraqi-Kurdistan is fairly known.
Part two to follow
