Passions are running higher at pre-election time in Turkey

PanARMENIAN.Net - The entire Western Armenia, or as it is called in Turkey, Eastern Anatolia, is populated with Kurds. The times when the Kurds were instrument in Turkish Government's hands for annihilating the Armenians are gone. Times have changed and today the Kurds in Van and Erzrum are looking forward for a most appropriate moment to establish the Independent Kurdistan. As soon as Turkey decides on invasion of Northern Iraq, the Anatolian Kurds will revolt and then it won't be hard to guess what awaits Turkey. This may be the reason why the X time of the invasion is continuously being put off.

However the matter is not only in similar statements made by the opposition. Such practice exists not only in the Turkish reality but in the Armenian, Azerbaijani and Georgian reality as well. It is much easier to accuse the ruling party of all the deadly sins rather than to propose own work plan. At present Turkey is in a very complicated situation. On the one hand there is the problem of not being integrated into EU, on the other hand there is denial of the Armenian Genocide, and at last the absence of the US support in the struggle against the Kurdistan Workers Party. All these above mentioned issues, when taken together, have the power of blowing the country into pieces and send it back to the Ottoman Times. After all the Justice and Development Party leads the country to Islam, which was the principle ideology of the Ottoman Empire, as Sultan was the very Deputy of Allah on Earth. If the next President of the country becomes Erdoghan, which is quite possible, he will give paramount importance to Islamic values dominating in the country's ideology. It shouldn't be forgotten that only the 1/3 part of the Turkish population of 70 million people lives in the European part of the country. The rest come from isolated and poor provinces, where unfaithful wives are still being buried live, or being thrown stones at, and this 2/3 will surely vote for the Justice and Development Party.

However in all the above mentioned, there is one important thing to be underlined; the exclusive power the Joint Staff holds which allows to change the Government for the sake of the "country's national interests". The truth is though, that in the latest edition of the Constitution, under the pressure of the European Union, this article has been revised and "extenuated", yet violation of laws are not regarded as rare happenings in Turkey as well as in any other Asian country. This has happened in Turkey several times, and this is what happened in Iraq too, when Colonel Saddam Hussein came to power. The Chief of the Turkish Joint Staff General Boyukanit made it clear to the world community that if the army decides on invasion of Northern Iraq, nothing will change this decision, and the armed forces corps consisting of 140.000 soldiers spread around the Iraqi borders serves as a proof to the above mentioned.

In any case right before the Parliamentary elections the opposition will bring even more accusations against Erdoghan's party. The whole thing is that the Justice and Development Party has all the chances to win in the elections. Armenia will have nothing to win or lose from it though; the policy of pressure that Turkey implements in the issue of the Nagorno-Karabakh remains unchanged, and Ankara carries it not for the sake of "brotherly" Azerbaijan only, but also for its own interests.