Page 188 - America's Failure to Perceive the PKK

Clearly, certain U.S. groups are attempting to put pressure on
Turkey to portray the PKK as a force for peace, to get Öcalan released
and to open doors to the division of Turkey. All these plans, which
were made years ago and are offered now as fresh suggestions, are
being publicly discussed.

The aim is to give the PKK a federal region and pave the way for
it to establish a state of the kind that all nations would recognize as a
part of "the project to redesign the Middle East". It is also intended to

weaken and defame Turkey, which will be now divided and cut off
from the rest of the Middle East as a result of this new formation. The
deep states of the Western world think that it will thus be more diffi-
cult, both geographically and ideologically, for an Islamic Union to be
formed, and Turkey and the Islamic countries will be separated by a
communist-Stalinist PKK state which is opposed to Islam and that
acts like a barrier in between. It will create an impression of Turkey as
a second-rate country defeated by a terrorist group and which is
therefore far from being able to find solutions to the problems of the

Islamic countries. If the PKK is given autonomy or a federal state,
Turkey will have to face a new era which Turkey will have to deal
with for at least 50 years and which will further weaken it. Talk of
population exchange demands, fresh land demands, and fresh sepa-
ration demands based on regional factors, when combined with dif-
ferent languages, will alienate people from a common language, a
common goal and a common cause. A divided, weakened and pow-

erless Turkey will be giving certain deep powers of the Western
world what they have been dreaming of for a century.
For this reason, certain Western powers have long attempted to

put pressure on Turkey to ensure local administrations are given
increased authority, without directly referring to phrases like "auton-
omy" or "federation" (though there are exceptions where some
brazenly speak in such terms). In fact, some of these privileges have

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