QBNners in Turkey !!
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I'll recollect my previous notes here.
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"Kurdistan" currently indicates the geographical area where Kurds live. But there has never been a Kurdistan country. Right now Iraqi Kurdistan is a regional government connected to Iraq.
Before WWI it was under Ottoman rule before it was Byzantine rule before that under Persian Empire. I'm not against it, but it's being designed to be another puppet country like some other middle east ones. The more you divide this area the more problems occur. But I'm all for doing a referendum and give it to the will of the people.
The main problem is that the area is not only home to Kurds. There are several religious divisions, Arabs, Turkmens etc. It might also start another shitstorm.Erdogan's ideal is a Neo-Ottoman state with different cultures living together in an expanded territory. That's why he's against Turkish nationalism too. Couple of years ago they removed the abbreviation T.C (Turkish Republic) from the title of all government organizations. So like, US Department of Justice became only Department of Justice. They are trying to erase Turkish Republic from everywhere.
The West doesn't like this Neo-Ottoman ideal at all. But they will fool him into this idea like they fooled him in Syria. I don't know who promised him this but at the beginning of Syrian conflict, he wasn't embarrassed to say "Soon we will pray in Damascus"
So if I'm not wrong, with this failed coup d'état attempt, they will have him to get all the power. While he's messing up the constitution and stirring the country they will pull him down. This will create a power gap in the Country and whatever can be done will be done.
Our unity has been severed like no other time. Since AKP is ruling country is massively polarized, army is weakened, justice system is off balance and constitution is getting fucked up.
I'm a secular muslim but they paint people like me as anti-islam. This tension can easily turn us into a partition like happened in Yugoslavia after Tito or Iraq after Saddam.