Speaking at a "Peace and resolution process" themed conference in İzmir, Middle East specialist Professor Haluk Gerger pointed out that the lack of law and justice in Turkey was because of not the ruling AKP government but the present system in the country. Gerger remarked that the system in Turkey needed to change in order for the achievement of changes in all areas of life.

Gerger pointed out that the Kurdish issue has deepened since the establishment of the Turkish Republic, adding; "The last 30 years in the country have passed in a dirty war which is still continuing. The Kurdish question needs to be approached from a regional aspect but in consideration of the fact that it is an international matter".

Noting that the Kurdish territory was split after the Second World War, Gerger said that the Kurdish people were deprived of their identity and culture after being broken into four parts.

Gerger pointed out that regional powers and the powers trying to dominate Turkey dissented from each other in respect to the treatment of the Kurdish question. "It is this dissension that has led to disagreements and conflicts among each other. While the Kurdish people thought about their fate and future as the U.S. intervened in Iraq, these powers made plans on the suppression of Kurds in the event of a possible uprising in the Middle East. Kurds and the natural richness in their territory have been a matter of negotiation in Turkey and the Middle East for many years now as the imperialist powers are continuing to follow policies aimed at the separation and suppression of Kurds and their lands”.

Reminding that it was forbidden to mention “Kurdistan” and the “Kurdish people” until very recently, Gerger said that the military coup in 1980 caused great pains as well as a great internal segregation in Turkey's Kurdistan and the regional status of Kurds.

Gerger remarked that the brutality of the Turkish state in the coup period has not resolved the Kurdish question but on the contrary deepened it more and more as the violence increased. According to Gerger, the state violence suppressed the revolutionary circles but failed to defeat Kurds who -he underlined- managed to protect their forces.

Referring to a “special project” the Turkish state started to follow after its failure to defeat Kurds in this period, Gerger continued as follows; “This project had three aspects; violence, international support and an unreal reform aiming to deceive people. In order to undergo a change in the administration, the system's powers planned to eliminate the PKK (Kurdistan Workers' Party) gradually by making a reform united with violence. This liberal elimination mainly included the elimination of PKK's armed wing. This is why they voiced the disarmament so much”.

Indicating the strength of Kurdish movement as the reason for the changes currently taking place in Turkey, Gerger underlined that it was not possible for the Turkish state to deceive Kurds from here on in.

Commenting on the recent developments in Syria, Gerger underlined that; “The Turkish state would not be able to practice its elimination policies so easily if it neighbored two Kurdish states with political status. Seeing that Kurds in Rojava have achieved a political status, the Turkish state is even supporting the al-Qaeda organization now in order to prevent the establishment of a Kurdish state in Syria. However, it couldn't enter Syria because America didn't allow it. As a second policy, they have established a buffer zone in Rojava”.

Gerger noted that a de facto Kurdish status has been formed in four parts of Kurdistan and that it is making itself more and more apparent every passing day now.

Remarking that the current state of affairs in Turkey was unlikely to end up in peace, Gerger said that Kurds could only be satisfied by their own resistance and achievements in each part of Kurdistan now.

Gerger added that in the current situation PKK said they were also ready for war if the Turkish state wanted so, referring to the statements of KCK (Kurdish Communities Union) Executive Council co-president Cemil Bayık who has recently said that “We are stopping the guerrillas and will exercise our right to necessary defense in the event of a military operation”.

Gerger warned that the re-eruption of clashes would lead to bitterness in Turkey, adding that; “Turkey will not be able to endure should this process fail. This is because it will not manage to protect its present position, while Kurds will achieve to protect themselves in in one way or another. Turkey will not gather strength 100 years later even. This is why it is Turkey that will lose”.