Why a Turkish-Kurdish Fellowship is a Hoax

“Road sign double toponyms Amed DSC00179” by MikaelF — Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Commons

When you switch on some turkish talkshow (which I do rarely but generally I catch something up when somebody in my family whatches TV), you often hear phrases of a turkish-kurdish fellowship, how do to it, what to do about it and what not.

Well, let me tell you something: As long as we continue using the words “kurd” and “turk”, this problem is never going to be solved. It’s because these categories and their assumed contents and meanings is nothing but constructivistic. And as long as this differentiation is being made, the disparity between those is never going to be overcomed. When kurds and turks are being perceived as two seperate entities like in Hegel’s marble model, there’s never going to be a fellowship; cry for it as you wish. Because the your underlying model of thougt is wrong. Because two marbles can not merge. As long as we continue using the words “kurd” and “turk” we are contributing to the semantic distinction of something that really is nothing but imagination. Just saying.