Kurdish politics dynamics, the PKK & peace with Turks / A Road Map of U.S. State Departement ?

CHECK THE POLITICS OF PKK – May 4, 2013 Mehmed Husedin

It has to be the same one continuing, the process that started with the visit of the British minister of Foreign Affairs to Hewler [Erbil], Iraqi Kurdistan, back in 2009. Since then, I do not believe the agenda has changed. In the overall picture, it is the same process which the Americans gave the kick for with a report written by David L. Philips, dated back to 2007: Disarming, Demobilizing, And Reintegrating The Kurdistan Worker’s Party – ncafp.org PDF .

The current process

The idea behind should be simple. Do not break the hearts of the Kurds but take the PKK out of the game (might it be only the war game or the whole game? I pick the latter). Overall strategy seems to be “gather Kurds behind Nechirvan Barzani”. This, the way I see it, is being built up slowly but surely.

The milestones during this process -for the managers of the project- are likely to be the following:

• The retreat of PKK guerrillas to their base in Qandil Mountains.

• The referendum for the new Turkish constitution.

• The death of Ocalan in prison.

• The attack of Assad forces to Kurds in Northern Syria.

• The coming of Peshmerga to Syrian (Southwest) Kurdistan as liberator.

The PKK

If these happen as listed, then what will happen in Northern Kurdistan politics is another guess. Somehow the whole pie seems to be planned to be given to / collected under the lead of the ‘Iraqi’ Kurdish state. Aren’t they being invested as the future Kurdish state? All these hydrocarbon digging, selling, transporting agreements…

PKK’s one main weakness within the Kurdish political community is its un-understandable resistance to commonly accepted Kurdish national flag, Ala Rengin. Not that they do not target a Kurdish state anymore (or in that case they declare to have no problem with the borders designed right after the World War I, the current borders that deny the Kurds), they also refuse having anything in common with the rest of the Kurdish political establishment.

It is clear for me that any remaining PKK dominance on Kurds of Northern Kurdistan after the retreat of the guerrilla and the death of Ocalan will be wiped away by a Hewler backed nationalist wind supported by the strong symbol of the nation, the Ala Rengin.

These are how I read the ‘Peace Process’. In my opinion, PKK, in reality, does not deserve the dominant position in Kurdish politics with the current ideology it has. It won’t hurt if it leaves politics peacefully.

M. Husedin, freelance writer and blogger, you can visit his blog at: husedin.wordpress.com