‘Vultures’ of the resolution process

I found the term I have been looking for almost for 15 years in Ruşen Çakır’s column the other day at daily Vatan.

“When it is the question of the Kurdish issue and the resolution process, there are doves on one side who want a solution, right opposite them are the hawks and in between there are ‘vultures.’ These vultures do not come out frequently. Some of them are known as if they are supporting the solution, some are not. Again, some among them stay as if they are close to the government, some to the Kurdish political movement and the rest to the opposition parties. However, whenever the process starts failing, we see them abandon their positions and declare, with much enthusiasm, the death of the process, in short, all of them becoming vultures.”

Not only in the resolution process, but it is also possible to see these vultures in all of our chronic issues, such as the European Union, democratization and the Cyprus issue.

This is the natural outcome of conducting politics, adopting a political stance not through principles, ideas, ideologies and ideals but through egos and feelings. But this should not be underestimated because this political class called “vultures” has, from time to time, a huge power of influence because they are a much larger group than we assume.

The major project coined the resolution process is maybe as important as the founding project of our republic, something that would put our republic on a sustainable normalization track. For this reason, it is very difficult to be impartial before the resolution process.

You may see the resolution process as one that has not been worked on thoroughly, the intellectual foundation of which has not been formed and one...