The ‘dissolved PKK’
The main outline of what needs to be done to bring an end to terror is clear: bringing about a certain “closeness” with Barzani and the Iraqi Kurds, handing over some of their rights while at the same time forcing the door open that would pave the way before the Kurdistan Workers’ Party’s (PKK) dissolution in the Middle East, taking steps that would allow the PKK to lay down its weapons and, in particular, putting an “amnesty and confrontation” policy into fast effect.
To put it another way, this would all mean breaking down “psychological blockage” while paying attention to the problem’s political and social dimensions, thus enabling the emergence of a climate of peace and compromise aimed at debating and then solving the Kurdish problem in Turkey. These are the two paths available these days to the “normalization” of the Kurdish problem. It is clear that to interpret the Kurdish problem as just one of public order or to try and solve it through economic solutions will do nothing to reduce the out-of-control terror, the armed clashes and the funerals we hold for our martyrs. This is as true today as it was yesterday.
15 May 2008, Thursday
AL? BAYRAMO?LU, YEN? ?AFAK
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