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    Today's Zaman, Turkey
    Jan 2 2012


    Turkey is being forced into isolation

    HASAN KANBOLAT


    Turkey's natural resources are limited. As it does not have an
    exploitative background, it has little capital accumulation. The only
    capital it has is its educated manpower, willing to take initiative.
    With its well-managed manpower capital, Turkey has been growing for 10
    years. Especially noticeable are the huge steps it has taken in
    democracy and the fields of communication, transportation, health and
    education everywhere from its cities to its villages.

    Just like the steps taken inside the country, Turkey also took huge
    steps in the surrounding regions. It went beyond its borders and
    embraced its brothers once more. It began to stand against
    dictatorships. It embraced communities. It gained their trust. In this
    way, in the most challenging nations, such as Afghanistan, holding a
    Turkish flag became better protection than wearing the thickest armor.

    Now some say, `You are too much, Turkey.' Turkey is being forced into
    becoming an isolated country. Others want Turkey to consume its energy
    within its borders. They want Turkey's self-confidence to be filed
    down. To this end, a move regarding the Armenians was made in Paris.
    The Kurdish issue was put forward again. If I am right in my analysis,
    new issues need to be put forward. New steps that will demoralize the
    Turkish people and drive the country into loneliness may come.

    Within this scope, the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) carried
    new strategies into action.

    In the first strategy, it started to point out that Kurdish people
    don't acknowledge state authority and that they legitimize violence.
    For this reason, Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) Ä°stanbul deputy
    Sabahat Tuncel daringly and without any fear slapped Chief Inspector
    Murat Ã?etiner and insulted him.

    The quid pro quo for this slap and insult was TL 10 worth of
    compensation for pain and suffering. BDP group Vice President Hasip
    Kaplan broke a glass in Parliament and threw it onto the Justice and
    Development Party (AK Party) group. BDP MuÅ? deputy Sırrı Sakık tried
    to crush the microphones in the parliamentary bench. Uludere District
    Governor Naif Yavuz was nearly lynched on a condolences visit.
    However, according to Kurdish traditions, a guest is untouchable.
    Those who visit to express condolences are guaranteed safety. The
    lynch attempt that occurred in spite of this fact actually carries
    traces of the new strategy.

    In its second strategy, Kurds and the state were brought face-to-face
    in an effort to disable the authority of the state. To this end, the
    children of Uludere were used ruthlessly. A blind eye was turned to
    the deaths of 35 civilian villagers in the bombing. That being said,
    the fact that inexperienced children were allowed to go into an area
    under the control of the PKK, despite the fact that entering that land
    as a group would not be safe, could be seen as an indication there was
    a different strategy at play. And, in line with this plan, the people
    who died were buried under the control of the PKK in coffins wrapped
    in cloth in Kurdish colors and, thereby, were monumentalized.

    The ability of the Turkish military to carry out new operations in the
    region was restricted. Smuggling was legitimized. Above all, the lack
    of recognition of state authority by the civilian Kurdish masses was
    brought vigor. Uludere will try to become a new milestone for the
    Kurdish movement in Turkey. From now on, we will observe the Kurdish
    movement as `the power that controls the streets and squares.' Maybe
    we will encounter acts of unarmed civil violence against the state
    authority in regions where the Kurds are many in number.

    As a result, in the Middle East, the construction of politics is
    different. There is another game inside a game. It is pointless to try
    to find the bottom of the ocean in the Middle East. What matters is
    being able to swim. While Nouri al-Maliki in Baghdad clears out
    pro-Turkey Arabic politicians, while Israel gets ready to bomb Iran
    and while the governors of Syria nurse a grudge for Turkey, how
    correct is it to explain Uludere as a deficiency in intelligence?



    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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