This was an expression of power par excellence by the AKP. Being able to mobilize these masses. Now nothing will prevent Erdogan from going after anyone opposing his will.
This was the worst thing that could have happened in Turkish politics.
Sorry, but saying that an independent Kurdistan is not a good idea is not just providing anaylsis ... it is doing politics.
Sure, new states then trigger sometimes uncontrollable dynamics. But this does not mean forcing people to sit together and forget the past violent dynamics is any better; especially after the parties involved have, in the past years, already behaved as if they did not believe in the power of the Iraqi state.
Plus, the Iraqi Kurds really deserve their own state. Like the Palestinians.
Sorry, but the PKK did not disregard the peace process "over the past year". This analysis would regard the governing AKP merely as responding to the alleged non-civil stand of the PKK, which is just not the case.
I do not feel relieved, at all. Peres is no peacenik, has never been one, so I don't understand why we should applaud him for not going with Bibi on this one.
What everybody seems to forget: nobody would object a strike or a war against Iran if some US lunatic president stood behind it!!! That shows how far the discourse has been pushed until now!!!
This was an expression of power par excellence by the AKP. Being able to mobilize these masses. Now nothing will prevent Erdogan from going after anyone opposing his will.
This was the worst thing that could have happened in Turkish politics.
Sorry, but saying that an independent Kurdistan is not a good idea is not just providing anaylsis ... it is doing politics.
Sure, new states then trigger sometimes uncontrollable dynamics. But this does not mean forcing people to sit together and forget the past violent dynamics is any better; especially after the parties involved have, in the past years, already behaved as if they did not believe in the power of the Iraqi state.
Plus, the Iraqi Kurds really deserve their own state. Like the Palestinians.
Sorry, but the PKK did not disregard the peace process "over the past year". This analysis would regard the governing AKP merely as responding to the alleged non-civil stand of the PKK, which is just not the case.
First papal visit in 50 years? Didn't John Paul II visit Israel in 2000?
I do not feel relieved, at all. Peres is no peacenik, has never been one, so I don't understand why we should applaud him for not going with Bibi on this one.
What everybody seems to forget: nobody would object a strike or a war against Iran if some US lunatic president stood behind it!!! That shows how far the discourse has been pushed until now!!!