The Near Future of the Kurdish Question and a New Perspective

The Kurdish issue is an old issue that has imposed itself on the region for more than half a century and has just emerged in the depth of history. Perhaps the simplest issue, if a perspective is put forward within the most complex of the region's international equations, human, conscience, and Islamic thought. But the bleeding wound of the region… In the last 30 years alone, it has cost more than 40 thousand lives, thousands of villages have been evacuated, millions of people have been displaced. Dozens of words were spoken, some hesitant steps were taken, but sufficient will was not shown, efforts were left unfinished. Perhaps the permanent and realistic solution required a different perspective. Islamic language, Islamic solution; It was always talked about, it was always on the agenda, but no one took or could not take the initiative to bring the children of this nation together in the integrity of religion and history.

Historical events require you to examine events on their own terms if you are doing a scientific study. The Kurds, who have lived in a stagnant state in their thousands of years of history, are on the stage for the first time as a nation that took action in this time. Where the Kurds will go, what they will do, and how they will present themselves is an important question, and it is closely related to the future of Turkey and the Islamic world. The geography where the Kurds live is an essential and natural part of the Islamic world, and the Kurds are the most natural part of the Islamic Ummah. While designing a new world, any power in the world must have taken into account the participation of the Kurds and their presence on the stage as actors who willingly build the process.

A self-imposed issue for half a century still needs definition. Because the parties or many different parties still stay away from defining the issue, talking about it, or even accepting the issue. While this deepens the issue, it pushes both the Kurdish people and those who really want to solve this issue and bear responsibility to the deadlock. The most important reason that makes it difficult to define is that we will define who the Kurds are in terms of representation. So we need to look at these two aspects. When describing the Kurdish political movement regarding representation, we are talking about two different approaches or two different main veins, one secular and a left vein. The other is the main vein that develops in the axis of Islamic thought. If so, who do you call the Kurdish political movement? Or what? If we mean the struggle for representation of the Kurds as an Islamic society throughout history, a different definition is required, and if we mean the PKK and its variants, a different definition should be made. The PKK and its derivatives are a movement that started with social Marxism, which is secular and tries to establish its own dictatorship in its own one-party regime. Nevertheless, if we are talking about a Kurdish political movement from the Sheikh Ubeydullah River, Sheikh Said, Ahmed-i Hani, and Salahuddin Ayyubi, it is necessary to talk about an Islamic line, which is more intense than the secular line. If we mean the struggle for representation as an Islamic society, a different definition is required; if we mean the PKK and its variants, a different definition should be made. The PKK and its derivatives are a movement that started with social Marxism, which is secular and tries to establish its own dictatorship in its own one-party regime. However, if we are talking about a Kurdish political movement from the Sheikh Ubeydullah River, Sheikh Said, Ahmed-i Hani, and Salahuddin Ayyubi to date, it is necessary to talk about an Islamic line, which is more intense than the secular line.

Before coming to the definition of the existence of the issue, it is necessary to express the periodic political breaks that determine these definitions because these definitions are largely the definitions created by these breaks. Turkey has several sociological breaking moments. If we evaluate in terms of the Kurdish issue, the uprising of Sheikh Said, the Sivas Camp created after the 1960 coup, the September 12 revolution and the events in Diyarbakır prison, the PKK's initiation of armed actions, the politicization of the Kurdish Left in the last twenty years, and the Initiative Process that we have faced, We can consider it as the breaking moments of the problem. As a result of these breaks, some approaches have emerged in describing the problem in the public consciousness.

Within this framework, the number of those who think that the problem consists entirely of "terror and security" is not small at all, especially as you go up to the upper strata in the state pyramid, the number, and effectiveness of those who see the problem as purely terror increase.

According to some, the Kurdish problem stems from the "tribal structure" that exists in the region but has never been able to overcome it. This segment thinks that Turkey will overcome this handicap as it joins the modernization process. For example, as urbanization, commercialization, education, welfare, and integration with the West develop, the problem will disappear because the tribal structure and traditional socio-cultural relations will disintegrate. The tribal leaders who enslave the Kurdish people, the 'feudal lords', the 'sheikhs who put the people to sleep', in short, are the rigid traditional structure. This so-called progressive and enlightened point of view ignores that the "identity issue" and related separatist or segregationist demands also arise in welfare societies. The examples in Italy, Belgium, Spain-France or Canada suffice to show how archaic this thesis is. Sometimes the rich and the "advanced" want to be separated from more backward and poor than themselves. Northern Italians' demands for separation demonstrate this.

From another, somewhat related point of view, the problem is purely 'economic'.In regions where Kurds live, poverty prevails when compared to others. Low production, small share of national income, high birth rates, unemployment, employment contraction, etc. Several factors weaken the region economically. Terrorism is destroying the human and economic geography of the region. In fact, everyone's only concern is to fill their stomach. A person who is fed and has money in his pocket does not become a terrorist. Therefore, providing in-kind aid such as coal and food to the region and making some cash contributions solves the problem. It is seen that today's ruling party highly compliments this "solution". Although it is certain that the "economic" factor plays an extremely important role, the concrete examples above are sufficient to show that this is not an accurate determination either.

There are also those who think that the Kurdish problem has arisen only because of the "weakening of religious feelings" and that "Islamic brotherhood" is enough to solve it. Undoubtedly, "religion" is a determining factor in understanding and solving the problem, but when the subject is considered in an abstract framework, it can lead us to various misconceptions. Because it is seen that a fraternity that is not filled in, its borders are not determined by the norms of rights and law, and that generally works in favor of one side, remains in the air and does not work. If everyone's legitimate demands are met, "Islamic brotherhood" becomes a solid common denominator. In other words, while there is an armed solution proposal (PKK) on the one hand, another armed solution proposal (Asker) and the civilian extensions of this mentality on the other, the national view, which has long been one side of the political equation regarding the Kurdish issue in Turkey and offers a third solution, These are solution proposals based on Islamic brotherhood based on the understanding of justice, welfare and real rights, which the parties have been advocating for years.

Identity and Demand

As a historical reality, the Ottoman Empire, one of the peak moments of our civilization, has been successful in keeping the Islamic brotherhood in the establishment and many nations together under the Ottoman supremacy since the day it was founded. The weakening of the Ottoman Empire and its withdrawal from the historical scene and the understanding of nationalism, nationalism, and nation-state that started with the French Revolution found a great ground and spreading area in the world. In the Ottoman geography, where Turkism and Arabism spread rapidly, the only Ottoman nation that was not affected by this fury was the Kurds. Secular Turkey, which was founded on the ground of Turkish nationalism, developed with problems from the very beginning, but instead of solving the problems that became evident as a single-party period method, it chose suppression as a method.

State policies implemented in the single-party period encoded all religious, political, and ethnic movements as enemies of the regime in Turkey and tried to suppress all kinds of movements. One-party period Turkey aimed to keep the region under control by leaving it behind in many areas such as education, industry, and trade. The famous "Kurdish report" prepared by İsmet İnönü by visiting the eastern and southeastern provinces has been the source of state policies for a long time.

Over forty years, especially during the state of emergency, the state lost its control in terms of the institutions felt by the public, and unknown history of secret witnesses of forty years was written. The chain of events between the rejected JİTEM, Hezbollah, and the PKK, which has passed or is spoken about, but there is something we know and see, which is more than tens of thousands of unsolved murders, thousands of citizens killed, our soldiers who are the sons of these people we lost, torture in Diyarbakır military prison, villages that were burned and evacuated, and more. , models gathered from the West, unplanned and externally managed operations bring more deaths and solutions that are not based on any right measure.

Conservative and religious movements in Turkey persistently look at the Kurdish Question from afar and from the line of official ideology is one of the most important reasons for the problem to become gangrenous. However, the solution to the problem may arise from the Islamic understanding right here; The way in which Islam defines the ummah, reveals justice and understanding of right reveals understanding above all else. With the understanding of rights that protects the languages and cultural rights of all nations, it could and still can solve the ethnic problems of not only our country but also the entire region. On the other hand, I see a belated Kurdish nationalism applying the popular concepts of a century ago to today's conditions as an unnecessary effort that will take the Kurdish people backward.

The simplest summary of the demands, which include the most natural rights of man in the social response of the issue, is the demands based on these three bases.

a) recognition of Kurdish identity;
b) the removal of pressures on the mother tongue;
c) Improving the social and economic welfare of the people of the region.

These three basic demands can be met with reasonable human and Islamic measures, and social segregation can be prevented. I only say the social dimension because a large part of the problem is an international political problem managed from the outside. While the Kurdish issue is being discussed in our country today, perhaps the least discussed dimension is the international dimension. However, the reason why the problem has grown and confronted us for so many years is international support. The use of the Kurdish issue as a permanent card against our country and the region's countries stands before us as a danger. In addition, the fact that our governments at the solution point ignore the international dimension of the problem makes our own issues open to foreign intervention by some international powers. This situation requires a foreign policy vision towards the solution of the problem besides domestic policy.

Ignored INTERNATIONAL DIMENSION OF THE ISSUE

One of the crucial factors affecting Turkey's foreign policy after the Cold War is undoubtedly the Kurdish issue. Indeed, the Kurdish Question has a great impact on the general vision, internal dynamics, and bilateral relations of Turkey's foreign policy. Especially the international dimension of the problem makes it the most important foreign policy problem that needs urgent solutions. In addition, the fact that the Kurdish Question is a trump card that can be used against foreign actors by laying the groundwork for foreign actors to interfere in Turkey's internal affairs narrows Turkey's opportunities and capabilities in the international arena. The fact that it causes great difficulties in relations with the Middle East and the West increases the importance of the issue in Turkey's foreign policy. Today, Syria, Iraq, Iran is a directly determining issue in our relations.

As a manifestation of the Nation-State understanding, Turkey has been ignoring the international dimension of the problem from the very beginning, or it is too dependent on the international arena to struggle with this problem, it means that this problem is a foreign policy material used against us under the control of international powers, no matter what equation we are in from these two situations. There are a lot of events that the nation-state Turkey has closed its eyes and mostly developed around us. The Kurdish Question and the PKK process are one of them. First of all, we must reveal why we, as a country, ignore the international dimension of the Kurdish Question. In addition, we should analyze why we have been closed to the regional problem that has imposed itself on the world for half a century.

Turkey's maintaining the Nation-State model, which is the outdated ideology and abandoned order of the past century, as an understanding, and shaping its domestic and foreign policy with this understanding has prevented us from seeing or correctly understanding this global problem in our geography. Because the Nation-State has a character that defines itself through a single identity and aims to pass everyone through a single mold. Due to this character, the Nation-State marginalizes everyone other than the identity it accepts and assimilates those that cannot be marginalized by suppressing it. After these oppression processes, anarchism, a process of breaking away from world states and world politics is experienced. Thus, a country that confines its future to its borders becomes an inevitable situation.
The Ottoman remnant or the caliphate remnant, the ties we broke with the geography, and the resulting hostile neighbors or border neighbors hostility to the degree of paranoia was another process that closed us to this regional problem. Of course, the main reason behind this process is the concept of denial of inheritance, which was shaped in the first years of the Republic.
The transition from the ummah-oriented and Islamic Brotherhood framework to the nation-based society and nation-state framework, and the fact that this transition was from a large paradigm to a small and shallow one, prevented us from understanding the events that developed beyond our own borders. Of course, the imperial paradigm and horizon could not be confined to Anatolia because its consequences were inevitable.
The one-party regime that dictates the ideal of westernization to the society to an unnecessary degree and absolute extent, which says that it founded the Republic, and the mind that perceives civilization as catching up with the western way of thinking and life would, of course, remain closed to what belongs to the east. In fact, the assimilation policy of İsmet İnönü, which started after the Kurdish report and continued for many years, would appear as a product of this unlimited love of westernization.
Regarding the historical process, to which many more reasons can be added, I can finally say that it is the world of fear policy that the illegitimate deep structures formed in almost every state after the second world war created and imposed on the society in order to maintain their own vitality. For thirty years in Turkey, the most significant source of illegitimate deep organizational structures is the insecure social environment, anarchy, endless and indescribable but always feared domestic threat bullshit. However, what is done is the artificial enmity of the peoples who created the ummah and state and are the elements of the ummah. This point of view caused him to close himself to the outside together with the state in his society, and the state became the most believer in the world he created with his own hands.

The subconscious of the society, which has undergone sociological engineering and has experienced many artificial processes, has worn out and has had to build its life, dreams, generations, and the world it has built for the future on many pains and tears. It will undoubtedly take a long time to rebuild the worlds built on pain and tears, hope, justice, and prosperity.

Turkey, in particular, should read its historical dynamics, the belief values of the society, and the bloody two-faced civilization of the Western world correctly so that the Kurdish issue, in general, can sit on a healthy ground in all aspects of its foreign policy. Today, Turkey must see that it has to solve the Kurdish problem with its international dimension in its Iraq policy, Syria policy, relations with Iran, and every step to be taken against the West. To think of the Kurdish issue separately from Syria, Iraq, and the Occupying Israeli Administration means ignoring the dynamics of the country and the dynamics of the region it is trying to become a regional power. In this context, Turkey; must place its foreign policy on new political ground. Turkey, which is limited by the nation-state paradigm, follows the reflexes of the western world; America must abandon a foreign policy that seeks to find a place in the gaps of its interests. Diyarbakir, Cizre, Aleppo, Mosul, Khorasan, Baghdad, Islamabad, and the whole Islamic geography are always closer to us than Telaviv, Washington, and all the cruel and hypocritical West.

Turkey should not close itself to the region's problems it is located in - it is the most active region of the world. The Kurdish problem has shown with the current Syrian events that it is now a global problem. This problem has become too deep to be solved neither in the oil lamp nor in Imrali, and has become a problem that many powers feed on in the international arena. If the government, the Kurdish left, and the Islamists, which have declared themselves a party to this problem, are to really seek a solution to the Kurdish problem and take a step, they must first reveal their foreign policy visions and show will. No political or social group outside in the lap of the West can show the will to solve this issue. Unless we solve this issue in the center of our own civilization, values of belief, and historical integrity, it will stand as a card in the hands of the West and Zionism.

Although the solution of the issue, its international dimension, internal and external dynamics brought some solution methods to the agenda, the methods that came to the agenda consist of some experiences gathered from the West. Spain, Scotland, England models were tried to be applied. It is a betrayal of the civilization accumulation of this region and our country. Moreover, the models put forward do not closely resemble the issue we live in. We are the sons of the same history, belief, and geography, the remnant of civilization. Our brotherhood is capable of solving every problem together. The method problem put forward in this context is a significant crisis and needs analysis.

A METHOD ANALYSIS FOR THE KURDISH QUESTION AND THE SOLUTION PROCESS

One of the most apparent legacies of the paradigmatic shrinkage of Turkey after the Ottoman Empire is undoubtedly the Kurdish issue. Structurally, what carries this legacy to this day is the method and mind of the West, which we took over with the New Republic in thinking, producing, and bringing solutions away from the human center.

The most important reason for this devastating point and similar issues has reached today is undoubtedly a method problem. Trying to live in Anatolia by thinking like a Westerner, solving the Kurdish issue with the British mind, setting a roadmap with the USA are all manifestations of mental absence and corruption. In fact, Turkey's problem in many issues such as the constitution, Kurdish issue, and foreign policy is a question of method.

What exactly is our method problem? First of all, we must determine which principles, values , or concepts we will build on to solve a problem. This is where our problem started.

This was the method problem of the solution process. British, Spanish, and US methods or experiences were discussed and discussed in the solution process, but there was neither a concept, a value, nor a parameter that revealed our own sociology. The definition of the Kurdish problem, the way the Kurdish initiatives were made, and the resolution table created during the Resolution process none of them had the Islamic mind or the codes of the local culture of this nation. Values and concepts such as justice, ummah, brotherhood, forgiveness, covering up, and the virtue of coexistence seldom came into play in resolving the Kurdish issue. The Western paradigm has deepened both a new divisive subconscious and the deadlock with problematic concepts such as peace, equality, law, and reckoning. Whereas there would be peace in war, there would be equality of classes.

In addition to these concept and value problems, there is also the problem of culture, sociology, and locality. Kurds, Arabs, and Turks have their own way of life. From food to speech, from clothing to architecture, each one has its own uniqueness. The experience of living together in this geography is more than a thousand years, and women are not a commodity in this geography. This geography has cities, sages, wise words, conscience, and heart, but in the western method and paradigm solution process, wisdom and wisdom have been replaced by reason, the urban solution has replaced the Medina model, the conscientious is the real and pragmatist.

Sitting at the resolution table as two oppositions and the coding of these oppositions as "organization and state", the ineffectiveness of all other region elements, drew a compelling direction towards chaos in the resolution process. The "HDP-AK Party" – "Organization-State" opposition or common sense in its nature was disabling the strongest solution forces such as the history of Islamic virtue, brotherhood, and the existence of the ummah.

The last of these method problems, which I can summarize under the titles of method problem in model, method problem in determining concept and value, method problem in local and cultural codes, method problem in the formation of the table, is the problem of staying out of the independent and global monopoly.

During the resolution process and the definition period of the Kurdish problem, the language of the peace table established between Turks and Kurds as if after a war, and the mistake of seeing this problem as separate from the USA, Germany, Israel or, in short, the Zionist Global Order, were the most prominent factors that brought this point to this point. Process building had to be done with an independent language and method. No problem in this geography is ever independent of the Anglo-Jewish global mind. Both the regional interests of this global mind and the solution process are historical mistakes.

Turkey should solve all its problems in an Islamic, conscientious, independent, and cultural code that we will reveal with our faith, culture, knowledge, and experience.

THE KURDISH ISSUE AND WHERE ARE THE KURDISH

These days, we are at a sensitive point in a time when history is flowing so fast. This rapid flow indeed points to the establishment of the time, not its insignificance. All nations that set the right direction in these years will achieve their future goals and generations. Although the world system that was established about a hundred years ago has undergone several modifications, the apparent truth is that the established system can no longer support humanity.

The world seems to have entered a new era of crustal change. The conflict of globalists and nation-states, the capital center shifting towards China, the change of regional actors, digitalization, the global pandemic, and the new world it has built predict a new system in many areas. Islamic countries are either forced to choose between the parties or are liquidated, as in Libya, Syria, Sudan, and many other examples. Turkey has been a strong determining country as a regional actor in recent years. This situation has changed many balances in the region and will continue to change. In addition, many Islamic countries have started to determine their positions by accelerating the processes of Israeli rapprochement and US cooperation within the rapidly changing equations. This situation may push countries such as Turkey and Iran to a difficult process, but the regional equation may continue to favor Turkey.

In the world and our region, which is generally changing and rapidly moving towards a new system, the Kurdish issue will undoubtedly be the most decisive issue in the future of our country and our region. In my opinion, the new election results of the USA further strengthened this fact. In that case, we should review all the balances and subject it to a new reading regarding this issue, which will come up strongly again.

The PKK and PYD, which seem sure to be decisive in Syria, seem to be prepared as an alternative to separation and conflict in Northern Iraq or the current Barzani administration. Every time the globalists win, the Demirtaş agenda gets stronger in Turkey. The PKK is liquidated within Turkey, and a new political line is imposed on Turkey's future. All these seem to be the most controversial topics of the new era. In that case, as we move towards a period that we can call the new era of the Kurdish Question, the process will proceed as it is built and by whom. As for the new era's attention and warning codes;

The determining factor of the new era will be politics. The alliances, attitudes, and positions of the political parties will determine the future of the process.
In the new period, one of the most determining factors in Turkey's Kurdish issue and regional policies will be the process of change in the Middle East. The way we manage the process of change in the Middle East and the path we follow are of decisive importance for the future of the Kurds and the Kurdish issue.
The effectiveness or achievements of the globalists will determine the effectiveness and positions of the Kurdish left and political institutions in the region.
A new era is beginning in which we will see the politics more effective, in which we do not talk about the PKK, where the politics of the organization's reduced effectiveness is at the center.
If the axis of Islamic Thought does not or cannot determine an apparent attitude and position in this process, I see it as an essential issue and threat in terms of solving the problem that it will face the danger of being completely cut off from the region and the Kurdish issue and that it will not have the opportunity to speak on this issue again.
Finally, I think that Turkey will be the subject of negotiations with the USA and Europe on many regional issues and will have a decisive role in Turkey's domestic political future.

So what should be done? How can the issue be removed from being a global threat by being more local and more self-centered? Are all these processes a role assigned to the Kurds? Or is it the Kurds' own choice? Who will be the winner of this process? Can the Kurds as a nation adopt a common social stance? Because if he does and if this attitude is based on the history, culture, beliefs, and values of the Kurds, a different future and an answer to the question of where the Kurds will go can be given for centuries. If the Kurds prefer small gains and interests as a party to an international project, we will see the loss of a nation's identity and how we are all defeated by our enemies. From this perspective, we can predict the following.

We must develop a new method and philosophical approach, relying on our civilizational accumulation and our country's political experience, both for our own borders and for our regional problems. If we do not come up with a method for these and similar issues that we think will come our way again shortly, we are likely to be losers in the political and diplomatic arena.
There is a problematic side in Syria and Libya, which our country is very interested in, especially the Kurdish issue. The social relevance, sociology, and civil side of successful operations in all aspects are missed. The Kurdish issue, which we foresee will appear again soon, or in a new solution process, this time the problem of social interlocutor and a holistic view of the problem must be resolved.
Since we do not have a method of our own, there are significant problems in creating a language or communicating. We must establish our own language and form of communication. The past experience was awful, and language and communication were used as if the peace of the two warring nations or the peace table of a war that has been going on for centuries was established. This deliberate language accelerated and deepened the separation.
A new conceptual framework should be drawn. In other words, in this process, the initiative and solution process, which was constantly governed by some concepts based on the experience of the West, was discussed on a ground that is far from our basic foundations such as culture, civilization, and customs. This both made the solution impossible and increased the separation from society.
International powers and intelligence organizations that have played a decisive role in the half-century history of the problem cannot be considered separately from the Kurdish question, nor should they be considered separately from the solution process. Without removing the burdens such as the EU, NATO, and the US alliance on Turkey's back, its contribution to the region's stability is limited, and it will always walk on the balance of the West. Independent steps should be taken to prevent international interference in the resolution process.
Finally, Turkey should put forward a larger regional or global project to transcend the Kurdish issue agenda and other regional agendas. In other words, it should solve all the steps that will ensure social peace as part of a more global project of the country. The lack of a global or regional project that will focus and unify the peoples, states, and political centers that have started to take shape around Turkey causes it to experience all the crises one by one with all their depths.

In summary, as the new post-modernist world is being established, Turkey is moving towards sharp crossroads. Maybe it will prefer integration, maybe it will break off and create a new center. These preferences seem to become more pronounced based on our problem-solving abilities. Turkey will experience many new encounters in the new system shaped after the pandemic, and preparations for these encounters such as method, philosophical infrastructure, and holistic management are waiting for us as problems to be overcome.