Ocalan puts an end to the armed struggle of the Kurds in Turkey for a bigger goal

The initiative for Ocalan, who despite his imprisonment retains its influence on the Kurdish people, who asked his followers to lay down their arms and give up the armed struggle in favor of a democratic, represents the natural evolution of the strategy of Kurds to get their independence. Divided between four countries due to insensitivity of the Western powers, which at the time of the dismemberment of the Ottoman Empire, did not take account of the ethnic peculiarities and demands of its representatives, the Kurds is so divided between Iran, Iraq, Syria and Turkey. In all four of these states, the problem of autonomy, if not that of the constitution of Kurdistan in a sovereign state, has always been very sensitive, giving rise to moments and forms of struggle, which also took a particularly violent. The bloodiest episode occurred in 1988 at the hands of Saddam Hussein with chemical weapons that killed between 3,000 and 5,000 people, so much to be officially considered an act of genocide. The support essential since U.S. troops Iraqi invasion has allowed the Kurdish community to achieve than the other, the greater degree of autonomy both political and economic, through the control of the territory, so that most of the oil resources have assured the region one of the highest growth rates in the world. One of the effects of the war Syria was to grow to the autonomy of the Kurdish community in the country: the withdrawal of the Syrian regular forces from the north-east, seat of the Kurdish enclave, caused a power vacuum filled immediately by the Kurds with an organization able to meet the administrative and bureaucratic deficiencies caused by the exodus of officials Assad. The current structure of the region can be compared to a Kurdish state within the borders of Syria, so that if no one for now, at least officially, talk of independence, the path traced is to require the recognition of the Kurdish identity in waiting for the 'evolution of Syrian conflict could make the borders less binding, and then proceed to more ambitious projects. The biggest problems are in Iran, where the Kurdish community is constantly repressed by Tehran, so as to cause the explicit condemnation of the organizations that defend human rights because of the physical, political and religious inflicted on the people of Kurdish ethnicity. The strength of the Iraqi Kurds and Turks has often been used to counter the repressive policies of Iran with military action, which, however, provoked reprisals carried out on Iraqi soil, in open violation of international law by both Air Force in Tehran, which to Ankara. The front is turkish for the Kurds a scenario of open war since 1984 that has claimed more than 40,000 victims, mostly from the ranks of the Kurds. Not being able to openly address the turkish army, one of the best tanks in the world, the Kurdish struggle has been going through attacks, which caused strong reactions, both military and politically by the government of Turkey. The declaration of Ocalan, then, is to be seen in this broader framework that goes beyond the Turkish borders and taking note of the inability to achieve victory on the Kurdish counterpart. The aim is twofold: on one hand promote a democratic process that points to the recognition of the autonomy of ethnic Kurds, through shared forms and legal concessions that allow for self-administration in the territory turkish, across the cease-fire by the Turkish military against the Iraqi Kurds, in order to free an opponent and allow for greater action against Iran. We must not forget, though for now the detail may seem marginal, the good relations between the Iraqi Kurds and the U.S. and the possible developments that could open in the event of a conflict between Iran and Israel. The general situation of the Kurdish people is changing, if autonomy in Syria will be able to allow the continuation of a territorial administration expression of the Kurds, if the wealth of the Iraqi factors together can become further emancipation, peace with Turkey may constitute, even without aiming at total forms of autonomy, a kind of federation can increase the weight and influence of the Kurdish people in view of a nation, even theoretical, finally an expression of nationality of the Kurds.