IDENTITY, EMPOWERMENT AND A DREAM

"Erdogan has begun a dialog, but it isn't a dialog that includes Kurds. In fact, I don't know that I can properly call it a dialog. A dialog requires at least two people or groups of people. Perhaps Erdogan is only engaging in a monologue, which is the nice way of saying that he is talking to himself.

It began in Şemzîn (Şemdinli), when the Turkish PM began talking about Turkish identity and the Kurdish sub-identity but since I don't know of any Kurds who are willing to concede the sub-identity classification of Kurds--which leads to all kinds of strange implications for the Kurdish people and Kurdish history and Kurdish culture as realities in and of themselves--I think it is true to say that there are no Kemalists who are willing to concede that the wholeness of Turkish identity can bear a sub-identity. But perhaps ordinary Turks are beginning to consider what the next step in the issue of identity might be."
Rasti