Foreign minister Abdullah Gül visited Finland November 2006. Photo: Kristiina Koivunen
During recent days there has been shocking rumours that Turkish intelligence agencies were involved in the bomb attacks in Sinjar. I do not know whether this is true or not but it would be interesting to know what the staff of seventy people is doing in the Turkish consulate in Mosul.
If the Turkish Deep State network is involved in the bombings against Yezidis it would be an international version of its atrocities in Southeast Turkey. While the government led by Recep Tayyip Erdogan has spoken about a political solution to the Kurdish question, Jitem, the intelligence service of the gendarmerie, has run its own policy. For example Jitem arranged the the Semdinli bomb attack November 2005. As prime minister Erdogan and AK party have not accepted to attack South Kurdistan, the Deep State might have started its own foreign policy behind the back of Erdogan's government.
If the Deep State is involved in the Sinjar bomb attack the timing is not a coincidence. Already before Abdullah Gül was chosen Turkey's new president it was clear that the army can not hinder it. After the parliament elections last July the generals have understood that they can not any more force the government to act according the will of the army.
A few days before Gül was chosen to be the president eleven PKK guerrillas were killed in Uludere. Pro-Kurdish newspaper Gündem accuses that the army used chemical weapons. Why these news sound familiar? When there were similar news? March 2006, three days after newroz, fourteen PKK guerrillas died in Bingöl, and also at that time there were claims about chemical weapons. March 2006 the funerals of the guerrillas turned into violent riots in Southeast Turkey and almost twenty people died. One consequence was that the reform law proposals which Erdogan planned to give to the parliament turned into the opposite, the strengthening of the anti-terror law 3713. Now nothing like that has happened.
When I write this post in Helsinki, our former president Martti Ahtisaari holds a seminar for representatives of various Iraqi groups. All the details of the meeting are kept secret. Mass media has found out only that some Iraqi people arrived here in the night between Friday and Saturday by a private aeroplane from Jordan. But no one knows who are these people and whether there are also representatives of KRG.
It is a good starting point if they came in the same aeroplane. Also in Turkey there is a need for peace negotiations and political solution to the crisis. But no one knows when it will be reality. At the moment I doubt if any aeroplane would be big enough for the Turkish negotiators to travel with the PKK negotiators.
So hopefully the Iraqi negotiators have used also the flying time for discussions. Hopefully there is soon more information about the Helsinki meeting. Let's hope there will be good news about peace negotiations, not bad news about Jitem's operations in South Kurdistan!
If the Turkish Deep State network is involved in the bombings against Yezidis it would be an international version of its atrocities in Southeast Turkey. While the government led by Recep Tayyip Erdogan has spoken about a political solution to the Kurdish question, Jitem, the intelligence service of the gendarmerie, has run its own policy. For example Jitem arranged the the Semdinli bomb attack November 2005. As prime minister Erdogan and AK party have not accepted to attack South Kurdistan, the Deep State might have started its own foreign policy behind the back of Erdogan's government.
If the Deep State is involved in the Sinjar bomb attack the timing is not a coincidence. Already before Abdullah Gül was chosen Turkey's new president it was clear that the army can not hinder it. After the parliament elections last July the generals have understood that they can not any more force the government to act according the will of the army.
A few days before Gül was chosen to be the president eleven PKK guerrillas were killed in Uludere. Pro-Kurdish newspaper Gündem accuses that the army used chemical weapons. Why these news sound familiar? When there were similar news? March 2006, three days after newroz, fourteen PKK guerrillas died in Bingöl, and also at that time there were claims about chemical weapons. March 2006 the funerals of the guerrillas turned into violent riots in Southeast Turkey and almost twenty people died. One consequence was that the reform law proposals which Erdogan planned to give to the parliament turned into the opposite, the strengthening of the anti-terror law 3713. Now nothing like that has happened.
When I write this post in Helsinki, our former president Martti Ahtisaari holds a seminar for representatives of various Iraqi groups. All the details of the meeting are kept secret. Mass media has found out only that some Iraqi people arrived here in the night between Friday and Saturday by a private aeroplane from Jordan. But no one knows who are these people and whether there are also representatives of KRG.
It is a good starting point if they came in the same aeroplane. Also in Turkey there is a need for peace negotiations and political solution to the crisis. But no one knows when it will be reality. At the moment I doubt if any aeroplane would be big enough for the Turkish negotiators to travel with the PKK negotiators.
So hopefully the Iraqi negotiators have used also the flying time for discussions. Hopefully there is soon more information about the Helsinki meeting. Let's hope there will be good news about peace negotiations, not bad news about Jitem's operations in South Kurdistan!
No comments:
Post a Comment