{"id":27758,"date":"2015-07-28T19:46:06","date_gmt":"2015-07-28T19:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.firdevstalkturkey.com\/?p=27758"},"modified":"2015-07-28T19:46:06","modified_gmt":"2015-07-28T19:46:06","slug":"at-what-price-mr-erdogan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.firdevstalkturkey.com\/at-what-price-mr-erdogan\/","title":{"rendered":"At What Price, Mr Erdo\u011fan?"},"content":{"rendered":"
The torturous road to peace in Turkey has been blocked by return to bloodshed and misery.<\/p>\n
There could be no justification or excuse for the resumption of violence by the PKK. Each murder committed by its militants is making the three-decade long conflict more bitter and intractable.<\/p>\n
At its emergency meeting in Brussels, NATO condemned the PKK attacks and declared solidarity with its member Turkey. At the same time, Turkey was urged to use \u201cproportionate military force\u201d against Kurdish militants.<\/p>\n
Political support by NATO and the European Union to Turkey came with caveat. Turkey\u2019s allies wanted Turkey to keep its Kurdish peace process alive.<\/p>\n
While the NATO meeting was underway, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan announced that the peace process has already came to an end.<\/p>\n
Just before his departure to China for an official visit, Mr Erdo\u011fan said that it is was not possible to continue the process \u201cwith those who threaten Turkey\u2019s national unity and brotherhood\u201d.<\/p>\n
It was not just the talks between the AKP government and the PKK that has ended. Legitimacy of the Kurdish political movement would began to be questioned and harsh new measures against the elected representatives of Turkey\u2019s Kurds would be taken, too. \u00a0The President asked the parliament to strip the immunity from prosecution of Peoples\u2019 Democratic Party (HDP) deputies and make them \u201cpay the price\u201d for links to \u201cterrorist groups\u201d.<\/p>\n
The HDP was quick to respond. 80 deputies from the party would submit petitions to the parliament for their immunities to be lifted.<\/p>\n
Selahattin Demirta\u015f, the leader of the HDP, told his party group that they committed no unforgivable crimes. Their only crime was winning 13 % of the vote at the last general election.<\/p>\n