Deliorman
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Fighting terrorism is not only about killing all the terrorists... it should be about making their supporters stop supporting them one way or another. Using soft power is much more effective than using brutal force as violence just leads to more violence at the end. How many even bigger and stronger countries managed to achieve a final victory over terrorists/guerillas? The Soviets and the Americans in Afghanistan or maybe the French and the Americans in Vietnam? And the list can go on and on, and on. The thing is that in the Middle East soft power is not working- either because a lot of people are badly educated and less intelligent and also because governments also constitute of people who think that everything get's better when you show you are stronger and that you can kill more.
If the Turkish government can't control what happens in those territories in the further southeast, if people up there are strongly against the Turkish state, why should we keep them as a part of our country against their will? I know pride is a hard thing to swallow, history, national ideals and so on but if you are not able to make a bunch of people live peacefully under your control it's better just to leave them and "divorce". It's the same like with cancer- if you want to get cured you either burn it or cut it... maybe both. In my opinion Turkey will be much better to just give those territories where kurds are the overwhelming majority the right to have an independent state, of course it should not be for free.
The Turkish state should take back everything they can that it invested in there, destroy all the infrastructure they built in there or just negotiate to get back a compensation- something similar to what the French did during the Decolonisation of Africa. Turkish state should negotiate for keeping a Turkish ground corridor to Iran, Azerbaijan and Central Asia. At the same time everyone who feels Kurdish and wants to live in Kurdistan should be encouraged to move there, everyone living there who feels Turkish and want to live in Turkey can move here. At the same time I don't think Turkey will lose so much territory even if it loses 20% of it's territory it will be a pretty big state for European standarts. I think Turkey can only win from all this: stop wasting so much money on the war against terrorism, stop losing lives of our young people, have a country with a strong Turkish majority with higher standart of living, more educated and less people that are only consuming our resources without contributing to the State. At the same time we should build a strong fence and border control on the borders- of course with mines and everything that can keep them out- just to show where our country is and where theirs is. After a divorce anyone can take the path they want to. Most people can't realize what they win then they lose. I will always prefer a smaller but stronger Turkish Republic with 90% Turkish majority which is peaceful and developing rather than a bigger Turkey with 20-25% of hostile population which is mostly contributing nothing to this state. Look at Poland or Japan- they also lost their empires and territories that included a lot of nations but now they live in progressive nation states where their brothers constitute more than 98% of the total population. Better be smaller but united instead of bigger and divided.
If the Turkish government can't control what happens in those territories in the further southeast, if people up there are strongly against the Turkish state, why should we keep them as a part of our country against their will? I know pride is a hard thing to swallow, history, national ideals and so on but if you are not able to make a bunch of people live peacefully under your control it's better just to leave them and "divorce". It's the same like with cancer- if you want to get cured you either burn it or cut it... maybe both. In my opinion Turkey will be much better to just give those territories where kurds are the overwhelming majority the right to have an independent state, of course it should not be for free.
The Turkish state should take back everything they can that it invested in there, destroy all the infrastructure they built in there or just negotiate to get back a compensation- something similar to what the French did during the Decolonisation of Africa. Turkish state should negotiate for keeping a Turkish ground corridor to Iran, Azerbaijan and Central Asia. At the same time everyone who feels Kurdish and wants to live in Kurdistan should be encouraged to move there, everyone living there who feels Turkish and want to live in Turkey can move here. At the same time I don't think Turkey will lose so much territory even if it loses 20% of it's territory it will be a pretty big state for European standarts. I think Turkey can only win from all this: stop wasting so much money on the war against terrorism, stop losing lives of our young people, have a country with a strong Turkish majority with higher standart of living, more educated and less people that are only consuming our resources without contributing to the State. At the same time we should build a strong fence and border control on the borders- of course with mines and everything that can keep them out- just to show where our country is and where theirs is. After a divorce anyone can take the path they want to. Most people can't realize what they win then they lose. I will always prefer a smaller but stronger Turkish Republic with 90% Turkish majority which is peaceful and developing rather than a bigger Turkey with 20-25% of hostile population which is mostly contributing nothing to this state. Look at Poland or Japan- they also lost their empires and territories that included a lot of nations but now they live in progressive nation states where their brothers constitute more than 98% of the total population. Better be smaller but united instead of bigger and divided.
