FIFTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE EU TURKEY AND THE KURDS

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FIFTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE EU, TURKEY AND THE KURDS Observing Committee of the Kurdish question in order to make periodic meetings with each side having potential to influence the nature of the case. We talked about this suggestion with Mr. Barroso as well when he visited Turkey last year. Another issue that I’d like to mention is the “Democratic Autonomy Project” that we would like to bring to the attention of the public eye and TGNA on settlement of primary democracy cases including Kurdish ‘question’ as well. The very essence of this project is an offer on comprehensive reformation of the Turkish public and administrative structure in accordance with the ‘subsidiarity’ principle for making a participatory and decentralized new administrative system. Turkey, with a population exceeding more than 70 million and suffering from a cycle of misgovernment due to the centralized and gross bureaucracy, cannot be a member of EU with this style of administration. Therefore, a re-rebuilding process is a must for Turkey in accordance with the concept of ‘regions of Europe’, an essential approach in the foundation philosophy of EU. We foresee that a notion of inclusive citizenship will be carried through to regional councils. Citizens will participate more than before in the governing system at a cultural, societal, economic and political level, and they will not be a target of top to bottom transformation politics by the application of assimilation and theorization. Briefly, we believe that constituting this project will strengthen the union and harmonization of peoples on equal ground, and thus, prevent the rise of nationalism. There are no political parties, including the AKP government, who offer this kinds of project either for speeding up the EU accession process or achieving contemporary civilization values. From this point of view, as DTP, we are a party making the most important attempts coinciding with EU aims on the grounds of offering both this kind of comprehensive administrative and public reforms and a new constitution. Also, the EU, Turkey and Kurdish people have a very great potential and role for the democratic transformation and peace of Middle East. The membership of Turkey to EU will have a direct affect on the process of political and societal democratization and meeting with the values of EU of the countries like Iraq, Iran and Syria. As you know, Kurdish geography and Kurdish people were divided among four nation-states during establishment of Middle East at the beginning decades of last century. It total, there are approximately 40 million Kurds in Middle East as a whole. It is clear that Kurds will be a bridge of democracy and peace in between EU and Middle East during the accession process and, if it is successful, in the aftermath of full membership period. The Kurdish ‘question’ has achieved a very crucial nature by the period we have lived. By comparing and contrasting the years of the 1990’s to the present time, we observe that there have appeared the signs of ethnic disengagement, and trends of conflict between our peoples. The organized forces of dominant Turkish nationalism have tried 52
FIFTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE EU, TURKEY AND THE KURDS to make pogroms and violent attacks against Kurdish people. In 90’s, despite the fact that there was a very dirty war, and countless murders and assassinations, tortures, burning of thousands of villages and so on were experienced as everyday facts, there was still no atmosphere in society of a kind of lynching against Kurdish society. In this current period, we face a very different condition of facts. The urgency of this period has made it a must for the solution of problem through peaceful and compromise methods as soon as possible. The obstacles of a possible settlement are based on ongoing denial and a destructive mentality. These people, whose least national rights have not even been recognized, can no longer endured in this mess of denial and destruction. We, as a party, have been offering the most logical and most sustainable settlement prescription. We have been struggling to deactivate the violent methods and achieve a peaceful environment as soon as possible. The demands we have been offering are to guarantee the cultural and political rights of Kurdish people as free and equal citizens of the Republic; to make possible the teaching and education in mother tongue, and lastly, to create a decentralized ruling apparatus which will allow the opportunity for participation in the governing process from bottom to top. Let me ask you; is there a more acceptable suggestion than this? Moreover, we say that ‘let’s just start to talk directly; we are sure we will achieve a consensus.’ But yet, putting aside the contemporary national rights, these demands are at the very lowest basic level of the rights and liberties of native peoples. The related UN documents and conventions are the best examples of this fact. To sum up my speech, I should mention again that we like to feel and see the triggering force of EU accession process for saving our people from the vicious cycle of denial and violence and to get a way of peaceful-compromise and common logic solution process. I believe that we will see this kind of approach and practical application at forthcoming period. With these thoughts I leave you all with my deepest respects. Thank you 53
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