Developments in the process that started with Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan’s “Call for Peace and Democratci Society” continue. After the PKK declared a ceasefire following the call, it ended its work by convening its congress. While the Kurds are taking all the steps they need to take regarding the process, discussions on the establishment of a commission in the Parliament continue. 

 

Social Freedoms Party (TÖP) Spokesperson Board Member Juliana Gözen made evaluations on the developments in the context of the solution of the Kurdish issue.

 

Emphasising that the process should be read as a phase of the 40-year struggle of the Kurdish people, Juliana Gözen said that peace cannot be left to the mercy of the government and must be socialised through the organised struggle of the people. Juliana Gözen stated that socialists and revolutionaries should take greater responsibilities in this process: “This process is the result of the 40-year struggle of the Kurdish people, which has determined the last 50 years of the country and has been an obstacle to the institutionalisation of fascism.”

 

'PEOPLES ARE CHANGING THE AXIS OF THE WORLD'

 

Emphasising that the process should be read not only with Turkey's domestic political balances but also with global and regional dynamics, Juliana Gözen said: "The world is changing, the Middle East is changing. The order of the world is being changed not by the dominant capitalist powers, but by the peoples on the axis of the crisis they are experiencing. There is a continuous war process in the Middle East. In the last 10 years, we see that non-state forces or states have not remained in place. Iran is being tried to be imprisoned in a new order by removing its teeth. People's resistance axes are being weakened and an order prioritising Israel's security is being established. The jihadist gangs parachuted into Syria by the imperialist powers started the process, but Rojava, which embodies the accumulation of the 40-year struggle of the Kurdish freedom movement, stands in this balance of power and in an important position."

 

'A NEW PERIOD OF STRUGGLE'

 

Juliana Gözen said that the process is a new period of struggle: "We read this period as a new period of struggle. The government wants to take peace under its own mortgage, but not only the rulers write history. The common, organised struggles of the oppressed also write history. The price paid by the Kurdish people, the accumulated experience, the struggle of the labour-democracy forces, workers, labourers, women and youth in Turkey offer an equation that can determine where the process will evolve."

 

'PEACE MUST BE SOCIALISED'

 

Juliana Gözen pointed to the importance of the silence of the guns and the possibility of peace becoming debatable and said: "The silence of the guns paves the way for the workers' and labourers' struggles for work, bread, freedom and the grounds for organisation. However, we must realise that the government has its own plans. The smallest struggle for rights is silenced with the stick of ‘terror’. When this argument is taken away, the hypocritical attitude of the government can be revealed more clearly. Ensuring the socialisation of peace is more important for us in terms of an equation of struggle outside the government."

 

Juliana Gözen also drew attention to the commission proposed by Turkish Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) Chair Devlet Bahçeli to be established in the Parliament: "A commission, which is the prototype of the Parliament, cannot fulfil the needs of the peace equation. We need something beyond this. The parliament plays an important role in discussing the possibilities of peace. However, it will not carry the demands that the Kurdish people have been struggling for 40 years and the promise of social dynamics for peace. There is a need for mechanisms that can go beyond the prototype of the parliament and ensure the socialisation of peace."

 

'WE MUST BE THE SUBJECT OF THE PROCESS'

 

Juliana Gözen emphasised that socialists should not be content with just watching the process, but should be decisive as subjects: "This is a new threshold of struggle, a ground to leap accumulation. We are not spectators, parts or parties to the process, we are subjects." 

Stating that the peoples in favour of democracy, labour and peace should open their own parenthesis, Juliana Gözen concluded: "We are opening a new parenthesis that we can win a populist, democratic republic. An equation of struggle is needed to eliminate concerns. The law on execution and sick prisoners are being discussed. These steps can be taken, but this is not a favour of the government, but a threshold brought about by the struggle carried out so far. In order for the equation of struggle to gain more positions, we need to open a space outside the government and strengthen this ground."

 

MA / Omer Gungor