Umstrittene Schweizer Sicherheitspolitik ... - ETH Zürich

Faruk Loğoğlu
at their source of origin, not through pre-emption but through the promotion
of economic, political, juridical and institutional development.
The international community would also expect from Switzerland
– a prosperous country – a greater engagement in international affairs.
Respect for its status of neutrality should be matched with a shouldering
by Switzerland of responsibility for peace, security, and stability abroad,
in particular at points where Swiss know-how and assets can be specifically
helpful. This is what your country has been doing, and I think it
should keep doing it.
The third matter to address is the security threats to Europe and to
Switzerland in particular. First, I wish to observe that threats and risks that
could target Switzerland are most likely to be of a non-military nature.
Here, I submit that terrorism tops the list. This, I suppose, is obvious
to all of us. It is a chronic problem, and the European response to it has
until now been far from adequate. The fight against terrorism has to be
seamless. We must heed our commitments under the UN conventions
and others with no exceptions. In this context, the Turkish experience
with European attitudes toward the terrorist organization PKK has been
deeply disappointing.
Cyber-terrorism is the kind of threat that is especially relevant to an
advanced country like Switzerland, dependent on high-tech and home
to a banking system of global significance. Illegal migration and the
failure to define a harmonious relationship with migrant communities
pose a wide range of problems for the host countries. Xenophobia and
Islam-phobia, on the other hand, could exacerbate the tendencies toward
radicalism among foreigners in Switzerland. The migrant communities
can also generate problems in their host countries by activities related to
conflicts and disputes in their home countries.
Major challenges for Switzerland are demographic trends that are
shared by most other European countries. The working population is getting
smaller, while the aging population to be sustained is growing ever
larger. This then links with the issues of migration and refugees. Because
of the restrictions and severe limitations on legal entries for foreigners
who want to come, work, and live here, you end up not with the best, but
unfortunately with the most problematic immigrants who are generally
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