Hussein Alqutobi/ Turkey, the country of the minarets and the camps, whose walls of the alleys still refreshed with memory of sultans, its elites are  still proud of the massacres they committed in Anatolia, the Balkans and the Levant.Those that were near to the past denied the existence of languages, peoples coexist on this spot, such as Kurds, Arabs and Armenians, on charges of terrorism and punish those who speak other than Turkish in public places.Turkey was forced on the tongue of Prime Minister Rejub Erdogan to make a formal apology to the Kurdish people for the massacres that were committed between the years 1936 and 1938 during the suppression of the Kurdish revolution in Drisim, and killed according to official statistics at the time about 14 people.And an apology like this, in a military country ruled by veteran generals always seen as an unprecedented historic turning point. It is supposed to raise the observers, more than just surprising.On the one hand, it is undermining the sacred legacy of Ataturk, , especially as the massacres in question, had been committed during the presidency of Kamal Ataturk himself, and has been linked to the more personal, where the adoptive daughter (Sabeeha Gokjn), the first pilot to fight in the army, participated indensely bombing, in these populated areas.More lethal tools have been used , including chemical weapons, against the sons of "Dresim" inhabited by the minority of Alawite Kurds.On the other hand, the culture of apology was always alien to the ruling elites of Turkey, , especially if they refuse (and still) the recognition of the crimes committed against the Armenians in 1915, the Greek minority in Izmir (western Turkey) in 1923, and attacks on the Greeks in 1955 .

Thus, opening the way for formal recognition of such offenses, and then apologize for them, is an exciting turning point in the history of Turkey. Is Erdogan aware of what he says? Is Turkey genuine in its recognition of what it did , and its apology,?

Some observers put the letter of the apology as a part of the contest in the election, directed mainly against the opposition party CHP, and specifically its president Kamal Klijdar Ihsanoglu, and this party, as is known, the same party, of Kamal Ataturk, whom Erdogan burdened with responsibility for what he called "the biggest painful incidents in our recent past ".

They justify his description of the massacre as a product of the past, it seems like just the persistence of double-speak, because the government of Erdogan itself still continues the same approach taken by Ataturk at the time, by the war that is raging today between the army and the PKK in Qandil and Dersim and Hakkari, under the supervision of Erdogan himself, is an extension of that revolution (Dersim), which would not work those massacres, as is evident in the reduction of aggravation.

On top of that, his government will continue as well, the same policies of Ataturk, in preventing the circulation of Kurdish in public schools, and the marginalization of urban Kurdish economically, in order to force the new generations on migration, as well as to force the villagers to leave their villages through the construction of ten giant dams man made  lakes  which flooded vast agricultural areas in the region, and led to the exodus of its population.

On the other hand, there is the opinion indicates that there is a change has taken place already on the classic mentality of the Turk leaders, known with its inflexibility and that there was a flexibility began to leak, due to European pressure, and the failure of military policies in Kurdistan, seeming more receptive to the demands of cultural, as a first step, and stage new understanding began to make inroads in the corridors of the Jankaya Presidential Palace.

If the Turkish government is really serious in applying human rights standards, and that the letter of Mr. Erdogan is not just a network, given by fisherman in the Sea of electoral votes, he will first have to respond to appeals for peace, launched by the PKK, and end the era of long fighting, so that he makes the massacres and wars as truly "recent past", and then, to apologize.

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