Ethnic Nationalism And Status Quo: Turkey Case
Ethnic Nationalism And Status Quo: Turkey Case
In the 20th century, the world could not avoid being an arena for the game that was fictionalized by hegemonic powers. With the years passing actors changed while the scenario remained the same. With operations revealed ciphers were d, faces were renewed and the game continued uninterrupted over energy or natural resources, or control of lands or using as a trump by using force directly as well as triggering internal dynamics over the corners of the world. 
The Republic of Turkey has come to be a scene of this game played by global powers throughout the history. Every effort was made in order to segregate society and cause people conflict with each other. Individuals and communities were ghettoized through ethnic origins, worldviews, religious sects, etc. Alevites were compared, segregated and conflicted with Sunnites as well as laicists with Islamists and Kurds with Turks.
During this process, biggest supporters of global powers became status quoist governments. Hegemonic powers that sometimes collaborated with status quoist governments or used them instead existed at every step of the weird game that has been played in Turkey. It has been observed that it were the same powers that military overtakes, cold cases, terrorist events and many happenings sliding a country into a chaos were planned or encouraged or realized by the same powers themselves.
Especially after September 12, Turkey as the most important ally in the middle east drew a picture of a country that could not afford to succeed a social peace, considered all its neighbors as a threat, could not manage to govern different ethnic groups in peace, put a restriction on rights and freedoms and could not show tolerance towards belief differences. This picture, as is foreseen, paved the way for emergence of a discourse in which Turkey was a problematic country that needed support of global powers and was required to be checked continuously by international law.
Hegemonic powers holding great pretensions over the region and status quo that came to existence thanks to this problematic picture benefited most from continuation of this picture consistently. Status quo nourishing from segregation and conflicts, unfortunately, functioned with an untrue discourse in which it showed effort to “establish social peace”, “put an end to brotherly fight” and “abolish terror”.
Today this equation made by hegemonic powers sustains its existence with cooperation of status quo inside under the appearance of “Kurdish Question”. It is obvious that the aforementioned question which has been discussed for years by responsible parties in terms of ethnic segregation and rights and freedoms is a reason and result of a variety of issues that are social, political, cultural and economic. However as is mentioned above, we have to emphasize that global powers are so influential over the process that the question cannot be solved yet.  
Despite the wrong approaches that were put forward in solving the issue, inadequate attempts and tense atmosphere which has been getting stronger day by day proportionately with delay in the solution, Turkey and therefore all elements making it up still preserve their experience, history, sensitivity and justice. Nevertheless, was fictionalized over insolubility this policy that is perpetuated by agents that dispersed over many fields in the country through diplomatic channels as well as military and political obligations, and practiced successfully so far. 
Nonetheless, especially for a couple of years that the issue started to be discussed straightforwardly and solution offers were put in effect resulted in uncovering of scenario. Steps taken in the field of rights and freedoms during the said process did not/could not reflect on responsible parties.  Such an attitude strengthened the claims saying that there have been different reasons other than the discourse of ethnic discrimination.
This report tells about interventions of global powers and place of status quo within these interventions. A close projection to recent past of Turkey will give us a chance to pose meaningful questions in understanding the case and to have a more appropriate attitude. 
Record Date : 6 - 9 - 2010
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