Kurkçu: Turkey through the lens of WikiLeaks

Commenting on the image of Turkey through the lens of WikiLeaks, Bianet founder and journalist Erturgul Kurkçu, said that "these documents are the dreadful hypocrisy of the international system that is working under the hegemony of the USA. They utterly confirm the opinions put forward by the social and political opposition and anti-militaristic and democratic forces on the topic of mutual distrust and calculations based on elections".

According to Kurkçu indeed "the leakage of secret documents from the US Ministry of Foreign Affairs is assisting the struggle for democracy and freedom in the world, in Turkey and in Kurdistan in three ways."

First of all, he argued "we see once again that Lenin's depiction of competition between capitalists is not just an empty phrase. He said, "If you tell a capitalist that you are going to hang him he will try to sell you a rope". These documents fully confirm the opinions posed by the political and social opposition, by the anti-militarist and democratic forces that the present international order under US hegemony works within an environment of based on dreadful hypocrisy, mutual distrust and mutual calculations directed at undermining each other. Not only is this a confirmation but very clear and concrete proof straight from the horse's mouth. By documenting the USA's and its allies' role in the decaying of humanity, it reaffirmes the untrustworthiness of all states not only in the eyes of the intellectuals but also in the eyes of the peoples of the world."

The second way of assistance is that "these documents provide concrete indicators it also provides concrete evidence for the pointlessness and discrepancy of a the conspiracy theories which portray that nothing might change in this world without the will and activity of the US. Looking at how how ignorantly, biased the US American ambassadors and embassy employees might interpret the very developments unfolding in front of their eyes, we are once again convinced that the depictions of invincible and infallible imperialism are nothing but crap fabricated in order to weaken the self confidence of the peoples."

Thirdly, said Kurkçu, "even more importantly, the documents show us that for the US, for the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and for the Turkish military the misery of the Kurdish people and the ongoing war are not a cause of concern, a struggle to be won or a problem to tackle with but just a lever to impose pressure on each other, that none of them are concerned about peace."

But the most important thing very clearly revealed by the WikiLeaks documents based on sources in Ankara according to Kurkçu is that "for the military, the government and for their ally USA, the lives and security of neither the PKK members [outlawed armed Kurdistan Workers Party] and the Kurds nor the soldiers of the Turkish Armed Forces and Turks worth a penny."

What the documents leaked from the US embassy openly confirm is indeed that "the US intelligence-sharing operation aims at extending the the regional hegemony of the Turkish government; the army urges for a cross-border operation under no military concern but undermining the security credentials of the Turkish government, the government pretends to have granted their own language to the Kurdish people, but not for peace but for domination yet remains deaf to their demands for the recognition of their ethnic identity."

Writing on the comments by the Turkish Prime Minister on WikiLeaks, Kurkçu pointed out that "the Prime Minister did not say in vain that "WikiLeaks is untrustable" as soon as the documents emerged. The classified documents from the US made it very clear that, despite the anti-American and anti-Western rhetoric, behind the curtains both rivals, the government and the military are maneuvering to gain the US support on their own side against each other and against the PKK, and the US remains as an enemy of of the fight for freedom of Turkey's Kurds unless they are linked with Mesoud Barzani."

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