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To what extent did the Turks-Kurds Conflict influence Turkey politics in recent years?

PKK, that first was a political party startet terrorist attacks against Turkey

-Turkish goverment: with weapons wich they were given to fight the IS

  • The Kurdish terrorist group is one of the main reasons why Turkey wasn't accepted into the EU (2006, pg. 1).

There was a Turkish-Kurdish civil war in wich many people died

=>another reason for Turkey not being accepted into the EU

1 Explanation of our Leading Question (Lorenzo)

2 What is the conflict about?

  • Kurdish and PKK's Point Of View (Marlon)

  • Turkey's Point Of View (Ravi)

So who is Right? (Ravi)

4 To what extent did the conflict influence Turkey politics in recent years?

5 Kurds' influence on Turkey's politics

6 Conclusion and answer regarding the leading question

To what extent does the Turks-Kurds Conflict influence today's Turkey politics?

extent: How important of an problem/influence is it?

influence: What "role" does it play in changing the countries policy?

WHO IS RIGHT ?

  • the opinion held by the majority of experts states that Turkey is mainly responsible for this conflict due to them surpressing the Kurds for such a long time

  • But this can not justify, that the Kurds attack and kill Turks

No one is in the "right" as both parties have done huge mistakes, that influenced their country's politics as well as its economy (in a bad way)

Philipp hat nen kleinen Pimmel

Kurdish/PKK Point of view

Before WW1

Turkey's Point Of View

-Kurds were independent in ottoman empire times

-After the fall of the ottoman empire the Kurds didn't get an own country and were separated from each other

Turkeys supressed Kurds

-Kurds weren't allowed to speak their own language/have their own media (Treaty of Lausanne)

SIDE B

SIDE A

-10% hurdle -->no political power

PKK and its Goals

-PKK was created by Abdullah Öcalan

  • roughly 13 Million Kurds came to Turkey after WW1
  • Turks count Kurds as Turkish people

-> no own language, no own culture,

no own media until 1991

  • Kurds demanded an own state but were denied by the Turkish GOV
  • Turkey proclaim the PKK as a terrorist

organisation (and so does the EU)

  • PKK attacked Turks with weapons given to them for the fight against the IS (or did they?) (Kurds broke the "rules")

-> Turkish troops attacked Kurdish

regions

-> up to this day roughly 43.000 dead Kurds (also innocent people killed)

-PKK wants to give the Kurds an own state

-36.000-60.000 dead

-Öcalan got in prison --> more peaceful

-2011-2014 the PKK and the Turkish government met

-Still fighting between them

Kurdish influence on Turkey's politics

July 2015:

-20th, Assault in Suruc

-22nd, two turkish police officers killed

Turkey's politics regarding IS conflict:

ANSWER TO THE LEADING QUESTION:

To what extent does the Turks-Kurds Conflict influence today's Turkey politics?

- a large fraction of Turkey’s Kurdish community openly sympathises with PKK rebels

-22.5 million Kurds (out of 75-million population)

-basic political and cultural rights denied (political autonomy only realistic long-term solution)

  • supporting Kurds from Iraq (Peshmerga)
  • Bombing camps of PKK and PYD fighters
  • not letting Kurdish Anti-IS fighters pass the border, while not really intervening when IS does enter kurdish populated regions

Conclusion =>Kurds-Turks Conflict is the biggest influence + most important important problem the turkish government has to find a solution for!

Kerem Oktem: Turkey politics is pretending that it is waging a war against IS, at the same time trying to destroy the PKK

PKK leader Cemil Bayik: By bombarding PKK positions/strongholds Turkey is supporting the advance of IS

To what extent does the conflict between Turks and Kurds influence today's turkey politics?

THANK YOU!

Sources

http://www.mesop.de/mesop-theory-discussion-the-turkish-kurdish-conflict-in-theory-practice/

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/0dODugQ-e_E/hqdefault.jpg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey%E2%80%93PKK_conflict

http://momentum-magazin.de/de/files/2013/11/Kurdistan-Nordirak.jpg

http://www.kanarischeinseln.net/sites/default/files/tuerkische-flagge.jpg

http://www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/kurden-und-tuerken-so-gefaehrlich-wird-der-konflikt-fuer-deutschland/12440228.html

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-33690060

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