The “New solution process for the Kurdish issue,” brought to the agenda by MHP Chairman Bahçeli and publicly known as “A Türkiye Without Terror,” has entered a new phase as of today with the declaration of dissolution made by the PKK.
From the standpoint of resolving the Kurdish issue and ending the long-standing conflict, the silencing of weapons and the end of violent politics is, of course, important for our country.
However, we have previously stated that we do not view this process as a step toward democratization in the country. It is clear that a democratic process cannot be initiated while the despotic regime established by the reactionary AKP and fascist MHP continues. Expecting democracy in the East while there is dictatorship in the West goes against the nature of things.
As the door to the “new solution process,” which has been kept hidden from the public by AKP, MHP, and the DEM Party, is gradually opened, the topics of the negotiations are becoming clearer. Targeting the fundamental paradigms of the 1923 Republic and specifically the Treaty of Lausanne is significant in that it reveals a framework far beyond what has been presented to the public. Likewise, in a connected way, the “agenda” of a proposed constitutional change referencing the period before the 1924 Constitution has also emerged.
This process also reveals a reality that goes beyond just negotiating disarmament in Türkiye in exchange for the recognition of a Kurdish state in northern Syria.
The declaration of dissolution by the PKK notably does not make a single reference to imperialism or its regional plans, indicating a deliberate choice to conceal the fundamental dynamic of the process. This process, which serves the interests of imperialism and Zionism and aims to preserve the reactionary despotic regime aligned with them, points to a collaboration between the AKP-MHP government and Kurdish politics that is compatible with imperialist interests.
Similarly, the discourse of “democratic society socialism” without confronting capitalism, labor exploitation, and the exploitative classes amounts to nothing more than a slogan that could be written on the walls of the “despotic regime.” A conception of socialism that does not position itself against capitalism and imperialism is not truly socialism. It must be understood that a bourgeois solution within the “Second Republic” regime—which implies integration into capitalism—cannot offer a structural solution to the Kurdish issue, which is a class-based problem.
Our party supports the silencing of arms, joint struggle, the shared future of Turkish and Kurdish workers, and the unity of Türkiye. Therefore, opening to debate the references of the Treaty of Lausanne and the 1924 Constitution, which are accepted as founding documents of the Republic of Türkiye, is extremely dangerous. Just as we have opposed—and will continue to oppose—any steps that could trigger dynamics of division in Türkiye, we once again remind that political moves serving as parts of imperialism’s regional plans will not be in the interests of the peoples of the region, as has been proven many times in the past and present.
It is clear that the goal, under the “Century of Türkiye” narrative put forward by the ruling bloc, is to entrench the capital’s “new collaborationist reactionary regime.” The only realistic option for the unity and liberation of all workers in our country is to crown the republic with socialism.
