The Peace Foundation’s report titled “Social Perspective on the Kurdish Question (2010-2022)” reveals that 55 percent of the society needs to be persuaded for a solution to the Kurdish problem, while 35 percent of the society still sees the possibility of social peace.
A new report entitled A Social Perspective on the Kurdish Question (2010 2022) is published with the collaboration of Peace Foundation and Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Association.
The report is written by Prof. Ayşe Betül Çelik, Prof. Evren Balta and Mehmet Gürses based on the data of KONDA Research and Consultancy.
According to the report, 35 percent of the society still see the possibility of social peace and holds onto the hope.
In the research conducted by KONDA in January 2020, only 12 percent see Turkey’s top priority problem as the Kurdish Question. The rate of those who say, “The Southeast and Kurdish problem stems from the Kurds’ desire to establish a separate state” is 45 percent.
The society gives two different answers to the question of what should be done to solve the Kurdish problem: One is security-oriented and the other is democracy-oriented.
Republican People’s Party (CHP) voters are divided regarding the security-oriented solutions. They are more moderate about the Peace Process than it is thought, but should be informed about democratic rights.
58 percent of those who define themselves as Turkish are afraid of Turkey to be divided. According to the report, the axis of conflict in Turkey is not limited to the Turkish-Kurdish fault line. Social polarization is also observed among Alevi-Sunni and AKP voters-opponents.
There is an increase in the rate of those who are against education in their mother tongue. While more than 30 percent of the society supported Kurds’ right to education in their mother tongue in 2010, this rate drops to 20 percent by 2020.
AKP voters support education in mother tongue more than CHP voters. While 43 percent of AKP voters support the right to education in their mother tongue, 36 percent of CHP voters think the same.
To the question of “Who contributes to the solution of the Kurdish problem?”, 62 percent of HDP voters answered as political representatives of Kurds, 50 percent of CHP voters answered as the commission to be formed by the Parliament, 61 percent of AKP voters and 50 percent of MHP voters answered as the Presidency, 44 percent of IYI Party voters answered as the commission to be formed by the Grand National Assembly of Turkey replied.