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One of the issues of Turkish politics is the Kurdish problem since the foundation of the Turkish Republic. Until the JDP(The Justice and Development Party) government, the state tried to solve the problem by using security policy instead of freedom policy. With the JDP, the state and different political actorshave changed their minds. Consequently, firstly, the reason of state has tried to solve this problem by using libertarian policies. That is why, democracy and human rights has improved in the southast of Turkey.
Also, the JDP met the leaders of the PKK in Oslo and in other platforms. In addition, the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) passed the election threshold in June, 2015 and took 13.1 percent of the votes. It was an outstanding success for legal Kurdish politics. Besides, some of Turkish people, Kemalist, social democrat and nationalist supported to the HDP. Moreover, Selahattin Demirtaş, one of the co-chairs of the HDP, defended the discourse of the idea of being a Turkish Citizen in a civic sense rather than in a etnic sense not armed struggle.
Demirtaş spoke at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin last week. However, he said that "In retrospect, one of the leading subjects we regret is the institutionalization and transparency of the negotiations. We should have given more importance to those aspects." With this, he said that; "Together with declare of autonomy, anyone can get somewhere.?" Also "Battle of the trench has threatened public safety." Demirtaş's remarks were highly surprising for us. Because he strongly proclaimed the idea of the autonomy. He supported autonomy and the battle of the trench in the southeast. Moreover, Figen Yüksekdağ, one of the other co-chairs of the HDP, mentioned that "we lean back the YPG, the YPJ and the PYD". These organizations are the branches of the PKK.
Politics externalizes the request of society on the parliament, not armed force as the PKK. However, unfortunately, the HDP represents the demands of the PKK, just a Kurdish separatist as if the goal of the HDP is legitimating of the PKK. More than 40000 civilians and security forces, mostly Kurds have been killed in Turkish-The PKK clashes since foundation of the PKK. The PKK's terror is just one part of this problem.
On the other hand, there are educational, economic and political parts of the problem. hence, while army tackles the PKK, politicians try to solve this problem by using politics. Actually, we were closer than ever to bury the hatches. Regrettably, after the Kobani case, on the border town of Syria, the PKK slavered after independence.
Anyway, while Demirtaş tells lie about autonomy on the western cities, he can support autonomy and the battle of confederates in southeast. Typically, he is a populist politician who supports both the Kurdish rebel organization in southast and democratic state and party in Europe or in West. As a result, If we want to solve the Kurdish problem, we have to lean back to democracy and negotiate with each other.
