The new reality

External as well as internal factors are leading to the redistribution of cards, the redrawing of borders in the region. The idea of Turkey expanding its borders to include oil-rich Iraqi Kurdistan is nothing new for the abundant “deep strategists.” While trying to expand borders, however, Turkey may find itself bidding farewell to some fundamental parts of the motherland.

A draft presented to Parliament by the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government in the hope of carrying the “Kurdish opening” to a new dimension – a move hailed by the separatist chieftain serving a life sentence as “a historical move” – is being criticized as an “election concession” to ethnic-Kurdish politics. Many people are claiming that the timing of the presentation of the draft to Parliament was very meaningful. Why? Because Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan wants to buy – if not in the first round but in a probable rerun – votes from the ethnic Kurdish population. Frankly, something is happening in Turkey all the time and any such move would coincide with something important. With such a mentality nothing can be achieved. The issue is whether the draft was something serving the national and territorial integrity of the country or providing some sort of a judicial umbrella for those who might work for Turkey’s disintegration.

The stipulation that people ordered to carry out contacts in the country or outside the country would not be held responsible of their actions in the face of the law is an ill mentality.  Giving blanket immunity to the National Intelligence Organization (MÄ°T) and whoever is assigned to carry out something for MÄ°T was already a problematic undertaking. Why provide now such...