Attempts by one ethnic group to exercise sovereignty over another are not fair. It doesn't matter if that ethnicity is Kurdish, Turkish, Arabic, Chaldean or whatever.

There is no Kurdish problem.

Turkish citizens of Kurdish origins.

The Kurdish problem is not only the problem of one part of my nation: it is a problem of every one of us, including myself.

During the Gezi protests and PKK terror campaigns, the unity and solidarity of the Turkish nation were attacked.

I regard the endorsement of both the objective and a method - which can differ from one country to another- of democratization by the parties in the region as a basic requisite of democratization in the Middle East.