A Reply to Pusane: What Was Really Behind the Failure of the 2009 Kurdish Opening
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In her article titled “Turkey’s Kurdish Opening: Long Awaited Achievements and Failed Expectations” in Turkish Studies (Vol. 15, No. 1, 2014), Özlem Kayhan Pusane postulates two reasons in order to explain the failure of the Kurdish Opening in 2009. Firstly, the AKP (Justice and Development Party) government “failed to build a consensus on the part of the state” since it did not make “a real effort to receive the support of the opposition parties”. Secondly, “the PKK’s appearance as an organization with multiple centers of power” made the process difficult for the AKP since the latter could not “decide with whom to talk and whom to take seriously in its efforts to resolve the Kurdish question” (p. 82). As a result of these two reasons, the Kurdish opening failed and the PKK resorted to violence back.
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