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October 14, 2008
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Murat Belge at Frankfurt Bookfair 2008 - The Kurdish issue
Kurdishaspect.com
Through who knows after how many raids on the same police office, the number of casualties has risen to 43 or 44. We will forget this raid as we have already forgotten the previous ones.
Now these questions will be discussed: Why were not measures taken? Was not there an intelligence service? Such questions are asked, will be asked, should be asked. But I want to ask a few things about the event instead of the details. What will we do with the Kurdish issue?
The issue is national. As we teach everybody in this country about the meaning and importance of being from the Turkish nation, there are also citizens who realized that they are from the Kurdish nation. We tried to prevent them from learning and thinking such things for a long time. Maybe, we managed to put off, but that's all. We put those who asserted the contrary in prison, and banned the Kurdish language. The PKK, which we continue to damn today, appeared while we were doing these.
Let's say you convinced non-Turkish people living in the country that they are Turk (or convinced them that it is the best formula to seem like that). Now, unfurl big flags, perform Turkish national anthem for five times-a-day and tell of the bravery and highness of a Turk on the pulpits. It is right or wrong, but it is consistent and it is a policy.
However, you did not take the first step which is indispensable and basic for such a policy, I mean, you did not convince these people that they are Turk. In this case, everything you do will take you to the farthest place from the point that you want to reach. So, do you change the policy now? Without knowing, have you left the assimilation policy and adopted your enemy is Kurd, policy? What kind of results do you expect from this new policy? Will the thing we called terrorism come to an end in this way? After all, eliminating those who say, there is a problem, may seem as if the problem were eliminated. Actually, we have known this problem type since the Ottoman. I think, today, we have no different policy from the policy of the Ottoman that was applied for its national issues.
Courtesy of Mezopotamian Development Society
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