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Markar Esayan

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Putin is not powerful, Obama is weak...

21 February 2016, Sunday

The People's Protection Units (YPG) / Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) terrorist attack in Ankara, followed by the attacks on our security forces in Diyarbakır have shaken us deeply. After U.S. spokesmen making statements that the YPG's parent organization Democratic Union Party (PYD) is not a terrorist organization, 28 of our citizens lost their lives during the attacks committed by people linked to this terrorist organization. Thus, the question, “Who is your ally? Make up your mind!” asked by P

Are we on the edge of the second Treaty of Sevres and Balkan Syndrome?

10 February 2016, Wednesday

How should we interpret calls from around the world, and of course from certain circles inside, to “sit down at the table with the PKK?” Sure, these calls are made in the name of peace, sometimes they talk about a cease-fire, sometimes about resuming negotiations and at times about meeting with the Kurdistan Workers' Party's (PKK) imprisoned leader, Abdullah Öcalan. Of course we all want the clashes to end. Wishing for peace cannot be something that anyone could object to. But, making these cal

It is OK to make a fool of us...

31 January 2016, Sunday

The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) could not stomach leaving the country with the reconciliation process, losing the so called advantage it had achieved via arms, and abandoning the idea of founding a PKK country, from the very start. Besides, PKK leader Murat Karayılan, after the June 7 elections (probably due to over self-confidence), said, “We were unprepared for the reconciliation process, we were preparing for a war on the Republic of Turkey, we couldn't object to [the PKK's imprisoned lead

Separating Turks and Kurds from each other…

10 December 2015, Thursday

The Justice and Development Party (AK Party) governments have always given priority to the rightful claims of our Kurdish citizens. However, the outlawed PKK and the established order organization itself managed to overlay the Kurdish and PKK issue. The social legitimacy needed would be produced from there.It would become clear in time that these two issues had been affecting each other, but they are different. In the Kurdish initiative and the reconciliation process after that, it gradually eme

The PKK has been deciphered …

02 December 2015, Wednesday

It is true that we went through many tribulations during the reconciliation process. Three decades of clashes, some 50,000 people dead, the state of the 1990s JİTEM (Gendarmerie Intelligence and Counterterrorism Organization) executions in white Toros vehicles, the burning of villages, mass migrations, the great economic and identity tragedies experienced by our Kurdish citizens who amassed on the outskirts of metropolitan cities…They were people stuck between the PKK and the cold cases of the f

Losers of November 1: HDP and PKK

25 November 2015, Wednesday

When we were younger, there was a cartoon called Voltron. Five independent robots would come together to form the Voltron when they came across a strong enemy.Do not regard the Republican People's Party (CHP), Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), the PKK and the Gülenist Terror Organization (FETÖ) as separate structures.Despite them being separate entities, they have an alliance among them that unites them around a common denominator; being against the national will

HDP-PKK and black propaganda...

23 November 2015, Monday

Identified as the PKK and Democratic Union Party's (PYD) method, black propaganda has unfortunately been used as a “political” tool by the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP). In a period of 13 years during which politics is of central importance, violence is no longer on life's agenda, and claiming rights has been possible through civil methods, it was expected that the HDP and PKK would experience compliance problems.Frankly, until October 6-8, I approached the BDP/HDP with the benefit of the doub

How did the AK Party come out of the labyrinth?

11 November 2015, Wednesday

The June 7 elections were reached by passing through an extraordinary period. Election results create an unarguable justification under any circumstance. This was the case for the June elections too. However, the AK Party did not hold those that did not vote for them responsible for the outcome. They did not make humiliating comments about the voters, as did the CHP, MHP and the HDP. They especially adopted a careful attitude towards the conservative Kurds that rejected them during the elections

What are the conditions of normalization?

05 November 2015, Thursday

The November 1 elections have opened a new era. Certainly the AK Party will be the first to realize this, yet this is not enough for the country. The opposition is in a bad situation. They have not earned the qualifications of an opposition.The AK Party on one side and the people on the other are forcing interest groups to found an opposition party by putting the stones in their places. The November 1 results have brought these groups to the crossroads, and thus have created a golden opportunity

Having values wins…

04 November 2015, Wednesday

Just before I started to write this article, a friend called. I said to him, “ If I had dreamt this, it is all I would have imagined.” We are people who believe in death, life after death, and divine justice. Therefore, we have struggled without misbehaving or compromising our values. Our people acted in our favor. May God be pleased with them; they ended all operations in one move and put all stones into place. They have cleared the way for our beautiful country, our long-suffering country, and