Member of the CC of Communist Party, Turkey (KP), soL columnist, Özgür Şen wrote an article on the relationship between the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and jihadist organizations, the problem-solution dynamics of the AKP and the warnings for the probable trajectory of politics in Turkey.
AKP and jihadist organizations… Enemies or brothers?
They will continue in 2017…
These are not our words but those of Numan Kurtulmuş, the government spokesman, in reference to the massacre in the nightclub in İstanbul, after the council of ministers at the Palace of Erdoğan. What is more, he utters these words just after claiming that 2017 will be a better year for Turkey. People will continue dying by being raked, being bombed; but 2017 will be a better year… It is not worth discussing what he understands by ‘better’. But Kurtulmuş is right at one point. One cannot bring himself to say it, however, it is quite likely that they will continue.
Turkey is trashing about in a bog that is not at all indescribable. It is not indescribable because the reasons behind are evident… We have been passing through such dramatic days that we even know why the people are dying. The dynamics of these massacres are no mystery.
At the very beginning, we know how reactionism and ideology behind these gangs emerged; we know how they were strengthened against communism and labor class movements. We also know that they continued strengthening and serving to the big masters of this system through different channels after the dissolution of socialism [in the Soviet Union], how some of the movements fueled by this ideology went through transformations like that of the AKP and came to power under proper circumstances…
Although they originate from the same ideological root and their kinship continues, they continue to exist under different forms and continue their operations through distinct methods. While some directly engage in violence, some do it indirectly, some of them already have the state mechanism for exercising violence.
But all these common points are not in contradiction with the fact that these movements might go into conflict and engage in a struggle among them.
The fact that the Gülen sect and the AKP had commonalities and cooperation, and that they are still unarguably in the same ideological camp, do not efface the realness of the political tension between them. The fact that the jihadist organizations progressively have more and more problems and that they are likely to engender more serious problems for the AKP, do not iron out the kinship between the AKP and these organizations.
Quite the contrary… The commonalities and the profound relations between the AKP and this type of religion-based structures deepen the already existing and the potential problems.
The ideological commonalities between the AKP and the jihadists, the interwoven and inseparable state of the reactionary political base, do not reduce the importance of the problems that the AKP has with the jihadist organizations such as the al-Nusra and the ISIL, but amplify and render them insoluble.
This is why the AKP government is right at this point! It is impossible to solve the problem and they will probably continue.
Because they did it themselves and it is the AKP that dragged Turkey into this bog.
Those who get Turkey into the biggest troubles are those who negotiated with the AKP, those who colluded with it; they attempt to coup d’états, they bomb, they massacre people. The facts that all these occur during the AKP rule and that the problems that the AKP has been passing through with its ex-partners are rendering the country into a blood bath are no coincidences.
There is a real problem over here and this problem is getting bigger at every step that the AKP takes it continues getting bigger.
The AKP, the imperialist powers tailed behind by it, undertakes regional games in Syria and the problem gets bigger.
The AKP improves the cooperation with the jihadist gangs, tries to use them operationally both abroad and in the country, and the problem gets bigger.
The AKP undertakes international provocations, downs of warplane, plans conspiracies with jihadists, goes through tensions with Russia and the problem gets bigger.
The AKP approaches Russia, the jihadists continue their massacres and the problem gets bigger.
The AKP, this time around starts operations against the ISIL, with which it had attentive relations until now in order to strengthen its position against the Kurdish powers in Syria, and the problem gets bigger.
The problem-solution dynamic of the AKP never changes. Every step taken by the AKP in order to solve the problems that it had created grows either the same problem or another. The problems of the AKP, hence those of Turkey deepen.
It is too little too late for the AKP to give up fighting against the ISIL. Impossible…Well, then can the AKP take measures to condemn the ISIL at every level? This is politically and ideologically impossible, as well.
Then the AKP will continue doing whatever it had done until now. It will continue getting bigger while trying to solve the problem… Until an absolute point of bankruptcy.
If all the ex and existing partnerships of the AKP, not only those with the jihadists, but those with all the bosses and the West, are not remembered and not acted accordingly at that point, it should be known that it will be much more difficult for Turkey.
