In the 1st article below, Turkish foreign minister, Davutoglu, tells Syria to stop oppression and to meet its people's demands.
In the 2nd article, a columnist of the Today's Zaman newspaper is frankly introducing one of the arguments inside Turkey about a plan to biologically exterminate Kurdish people.
Another columnist in the 3rd article has got enraged at the PKK's vision to divide Turkey into two along the ethnic/sectarian line, when Turkey is the main plotter to divide Syria (cache) into small pieces along the sectarian lines. It seems, in my eyes, PKK just have different political thoughts from his.
Still worse, Turkey is using fighter jets everyday to drop exceptionally strong bombs over very small numbers of impoverished Kurdish fighters beyond its borders. PKK just detonated only a few small bombs in some cities which resulted in no human casualties, and killed 24 or so Turkish soldiers on the southeastern edge of the country. Turkish population is more than 73 million. What an excessive reaction!
This government has been warning Syria never to use fighter jets in its fight against terrorism on its own territory. In Syria, more than 1,110 soldiers and security officers have been killed by terrorists, some of whom illegally intruded from Turkey, apparently backed by the government there.
Please someone tell me the difference.
Syrian gov't 'won't survive'
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=syrian-gov8217t-8216won8217t-survive8217-2011-10-21
Friday, October 21, 2011
ANKARA - Hürriyet Daily News
"Developments in the region have displayed that regimes that oppress their people cannot survive," Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu said in a joint press conference on Oct. 21 with his Iranian counterpart, Ali Akbar Salihi.
Davutoğlu also indirectly called on Syria to meet its people's demands in the same regard.
"However, the Syrian regime rather prefers oppression. We will continue to work for the appearance of a democratic transition process in Syria," Davutoğlu said.
The PKK debate: talking the process before talking the end
http://www.todayszaman.com/columnistDetail_getNewsById.action?newsId=260601
21 October 2011, Friday
EMRE USLU, Columnist
Following the recent Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) attack, Turkey once again has been discussing the PKK issue. The political debates have centered on two arguments. One group is saying that it is impossible to stop the PKK by military means and therefore, both parties should come to the negotiating table, which they will eventually do anyway, and negotiate an agreement for peace. The second group argues that Turkey has the power to wipe out the PKK and therefore should implement the Sri Lanka model, referring to the killing of the Tamil Tigers, and expect the Turkish state to implement a similar policy.
Scenarios of transition from Turkish Republic to Kurdish Republic (1)
http://www.todayszaman.com/columnistDetail_getNewsById.action?newsId=260625
21 October 2011, Friday
HASAN KANBOLAT, Columnist
(omitted)
Patience is about to run out. . .
What is it that Kurds who decline to adopt the Turkish identity want? What drives them to take up arms? The Arabic version of Turkey's Union and Progress Movement is the Baath and the Kurdish version being the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). From the outside they have an anti-imperialist stance but on the inside they are chauvinistic, nationalist and expansionist. One language, one accent, one flag, one country, one nation and one leader are the fundamentals of its ideology. A common dialect and accent is formulated in this regard. A right to life is denied to diverse ethnicities. Being the largest ethnic group after Kurds, the Zaza people and culture, identity and language are sought to be assimilated into the Kurdish identity. Other pro-Kurdish political movements are hindered.
A new map had been drawn displaying a new state with its borders encompassing northern half of Iraq, west part of Iran, north of Syria and southeastern and southern provinces of Turkey. It has access to the sea from the north through the Amanos Mountains in Hatay province. That is the Dörtyol-İskenderun line. The PKK is launching attacks around this very line which it claims to be its own territory. Pioneers of the Kurdish Movement rejecting the adoption of Turkish identity dreamed of founding a Diyarbakır-based Kurdish republic right on this map. The plan was to establish a semi-autonomous region and then to transform it into an independent state. Now, this view has been abandoned. The new borders of the "homeland" do not consist of eastern and southeastern provinces of Anatolia.
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