Yeah, we are in 2010. Social sustainability, complex solutions for peace building and bilateral or international cooperation in the solution of problems is the trend of this era.

If this policy is implemented with encouragment, it may bring sustainable peace and social confort for the whole region.

I am hopeful...

The Director of MIT (Turkish Intelligence Organisation) has gone to the USA yesterday, to speak with the Directors of CIA and NSA.

I hope and think population exchange takes a significant place on thier agenda.

I would not hold my breath on it..

It is not ethical; it is not democratic; it is against the human rights!!

In Turkey, we get used those ideas being trashed to the side and saying ´oh if the national security is the matter, the rest is nothing´ etc.. 

But the world is not like that..

Ethics, human rights, democracy etc are important.

If you dont have them in your country, if you ignore them, you are called barbaric..

Baby killers cant talk about ethics!

Dont be crazy. Dont be bias. We need a solutions which both sides win! And thats a tested and peaceful solution offer. Do you have a better theory?

I am sure we are able to implement population exchange successefully.

Sorry

It is never going to happen..

It was WRONG to do it, even in 1920s..

Simply, you can not FORCEFULLY kick people out of their country.. 

That is the bottom line..

We are not talking about anything obligatory. The exchange will take place volunterely! You know that i am not talking about forcing people. Why do you try to change the subject? This is a peaceful win-win project that is based on volunteers.

Population exchange was  a HORRIBLE thing to do..

No one will accept this exchange.. 

We just get more democratic and give our Kurds their "well deserved basic human rights" and problem goes away..

As simple as that...

Lets wait and see what happens.

I am also waiting like you.

If it were a voluntary move, what would be the problem? I´m sure there may be some Kurds in SE Turkey who may prefer to live in a Kurdish controled area, and likewise with the Turkomen.  Of course, the huge problem would be exchange for kind. There will always be those who claim their property is/was better than those they went to.

Isn´t there a town that was Greek, but was abandoned some years ago that is a ghost town now? I think there are some haunting photos of some of those homes here.

Turkey will go on democratization. Local Goverments will be empowered. Kurdish societies rights will be going on to saved.

However, these reforms will not include autonomy, the education language will remain Turkish etc. Extreme wishes of BDP/PKK will not be met in Turkey. All in all, most Kurdish people rather than BDP voters do not have expectations like authonomy or Kurdish as education language.

Together with that, Turkey is a social country, if the Goverment can not meet a group of her citizens wishes, she must create alternatives for them to meet their needs. After the population exchange the unrested people will able to live in a country where Kurdish is the main language and where the flag is yellow, red and green.

Thats why, population exchange is a duty for social goverments.