What was untrue was your Beauty that Turkey didn't care about a Kurdish state in Iraq.
Now you're being completely disingenuous and changing the issue.
No, thats not what i meant. If you read my post clearly, you would realize that what i was saying is regardless if a Kurdish state is created or not, it has nothing to do with us or our boarders. Kurdistan has nothing to do with a chunk of Eastern Turkey. Its a Kurdish socialist pipe dream.
They pushed you... and Turkey's Ethnic Cleansing of the Kurds was getting embarrassing especially when EU membership started becoming a considertion in the late 90's.
No they didn't. The disgusting ethnic attacks against Kurds sparked protests within Turkey. Turkish unhappiness with the situation soon saw the removal of those powers from office.
We have no desire to engage with nationalist violence.
If they pushed us, we would have changed the law in the 90's.
Does the AKP look like they play with Western pressure? Thats there whole controversy.
Even in 2000 many laws and practices remained in force against the Kurds.
You rightly but unwittingly compared that to the USA's century/centuries old treatment of Native Americans.
If the Shoe fits .. wear it.
You unwittingly compared current Turkey to its past, i used an example and done the same with America. Its unfair.
Kemalism sought to eliminate everything but Turkish Nationalism.
The good? It Stopped Turkey from becoming Islamist and enabled it to keep up with the world in many respects.
The Bad? It tried to Cleanse everything but Turkish nationalism and denied the Kurdish identity.
Kemalist nationalism in no part advocates the forced ethnic integration of others.
It believes in the national term "Turk".
Since ethnically we are a mix of both East and West, we cannot be defined as one ethnic group but rather a collection of nationals belonging to Anatolia. That was the definition of Kemalist nationalism. It doesn't deny the right, however, to self-determination.
The nationalism we saw back then was nationalist extremism, not Kemalist nationalism. Yet you act like the powers that be at the time acted under civilian wants. In fact the situation went down so badly with Turks, the very army who had carried out the attacks where forced to kill the generals who had agreed to those disgusting raids and then overthrow the government.