There are two leaders who have left their marks at the heart of the reconciliation process. First, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan decided to initiate...
But one must be ignorant, stupid or immoral to claim that the AK Party did not want to grant rights to Kurds, started a war and oppressed Kurdish people.
In the wake of the Ankara tragedy I thought of all this yet again. A pathological political culture had for some time been running below the surface but variously signaling its presence to society at large. The 10th October catastrophe brought it out into the open, exposing all its defining characteristics. This is a tradition of political behavior that we have long been familiar with through the history of the so-called “revolutionary left.” An outlook that lacks responsibility, and is also alien to common sense.
Demirtaş exerts the utmost effort to prevent peace. It is unfortunate that a young politician who raised hopes has fallen into such mean opportunism and ethical weakness in such a short amount of time.