CHP slowly coming around the need of a road map for Kurdish issue
CHP slowly coming around the need of a road map for Kurdish issue
As the saying goes better later than never. Republican People's Party (CHP) Deputy Chairman Sezgin Tanrýkulu offered a six-points solution package regarding the solution to the Kurdish problem. Of course it remains to be see whether the CHP is genuine about addressing the problem in the right dimension. And of course a plan or road map is not sufficient if there is no involvement on an equal basis of all of the parties involved in the conflict. And this of course includes the request of the BDP to consider Abdullah Öcalan as the main interlocutor for the Kurdish side. The proposal by the CHP indeed resembles much of what Öcalan himself has been proposing for a long time. Take the commission of wise men, just to name one example. Of course it is interesting to see that the CHP is coming around and now considers a road map and a path to peace as the way forward. It is a step. Not sufficient. But a step in the right direction. And as such it should be considered, nothing to be over excited about, but something to take note of.
Thirty years of experience showed that the Kurdish problem cannot be solved with security-oriented policies, remarked Tanrýkulu and informed that more than 50 thousand people lost their lives between 1984 and 2009.
According to the news by Kývanç El on newspaper Vatan, Tanrýkulu remarked that the operation in northern Iraq in 1992 lasted for 1,5 months, the Steel Operation in 1995 for 1,5 months, while operations in northern Iraq continued almost all along the year of 1997. Tanrýkulu indicated that all these operations led to gangrene rather than a solution in the problem.
Tanrýkulu underlined that six thousand people died in these operations and two thousand and 500 people were wounded, adding that $ 300 billion was spent for these operations and more than ten thousand people were a victim of unidentified murders according to some indefinite information. Five President, eight Prime Minister, nine Chief of Staff, 23 Minister of Interior performed a duty and the government changed for 16 times since 1984, added Tanrýkulu.
The road map by Tanrýkulu
CHP Deputy Chairman Tanrýkulu listed the first and most important steps to be taken to solve the Kurdish question under six titles as follows;
* Working Group: A working group should be formed under the roof of Turkish Grand National Assembly (TBMM) with eight members and in equal numbers from all parties. the Government's plans should be discussed within this group and each party should be able to express its own contributions to the government plan.
* Wise men: Each party should designate three persons to form a group of wise men. The group should both establish common approaches among the members and do its task of consultancy to the parliamentary working group.
* Four-Month Time: the parliamentary working group should complete its works within four months and provide parties with the basis of a document on which parties will come to an agreement.
* Road Map: The Parliament’s legislation agreed to create a common mind in this process and other recommendations should be forwarded to the government on the purpose of implementation.
* Assistance to the Government: Parties should work on a common ground and lend assistance to the program that the government should implement in this regard.
* Public Support: All institutions should provide contribution to the works and programs that should be formed for the creation of permanent peace and social consensus and include initiatives from both inside and outside of the parliament.
In his statement to bianet, Tanrýkulu remarked that the government’s attitude would be the important thing at this point and a will staged by the government would take a closer step to peace.
“All problems can’t be solved through the constitution and we therefore propose the formation of a commission under the parliament” said Tanrýkulu and added that the Kurdish issue should no longer be the daily work of political parties.
Thirty years of experience showed that the Kurdish problem cannot be solved with security-oriented policies, remarked Tanrýkulu and informed that more than 50 thousand people lost their lives between 1984 and 2009.
According to the news by Kývanç El on newspaper Vatan, Tanrýkulu remarked that the operation in northern Iraq in 1992 lasted for 1,5 months, the Steel Operation in 1995 for 1,5 months, while operations in northern Iraq continued almost all along the year of 1997. Tanrýkulu indicated that all these operations led to gangrene rather than a solution in the problem.
Tanrýkulu underlined that six thousand people died in these operations and two thousand and 500 people were wounded, adding that $ 300 billion was spent for these operations and more than ten thousand people were a victim of unidentified murders according to some indefinite information. Five President, eight Prime Minister, nine Chief of Staff, 23 Minister of Interior performed a duty and the government changed for 16 times since 1984, added Tanrýkulu.
The road map by Tanrýkulu
CHP Deputy Chairman Tanrýkulu listed the first and most important steps to be taken to solve the Kurdish question under six titles as follows;
* Working Group: A working group should be formed under the roof of Turkish Grand National Assembly (TBMM) with eight members and in equal numbers from all parties. the Government's plans should be discussed within this group and each party should be able to express its own contributions to the government plan.
* Wise men: Each party should designate three persons to form a group of wise men. The group should both establish common approaches among the members and do its task of consultancy to the parliamentary working group.
* Four-Month Time: the parliamentary working group should complete its works within four months and provide parties with the basis of a document on which parties will come to an agreement.
* Road Map: The Parliament’s legislation agreed to create a common mind in this process and other recommendations should be forwarded to the government on the purpose of implementation.
* Assistance to the Government: Parties should work on a common ground and lend assistance to the program that the government should implement in this regard.
* Public Support: All institutions should provide contribution to the works and programs that should be formed for the creation of permanent peace and social consensus and include initiatives from both inside and outside of the parliament.
In his statement to bianet, Tanrýkulu remarked that the government’s attitude would be the important thing at this point and a will staged by the government would take a closer step to peace.
“All problems can’t be solved through the constitution and we therefore propose the formation of a commission under the parliament” said Tanrýkulu and added that the Kurdish issue should no longer be the daily work of political parties.
