Does the Arab League have an Arab policy?

The peace corridor that Turkey and the US have agreed to establish in northern Syria is expected first of all to create a safe zone for the Syrian people. Through this safe zone, it will both protect the Syrian people against the massacres Assad commits against his own people without distinguishing between civilian and armed, and create a region where terror groups cannot run rampant and, again, cannot threaten the Syrian people.

In the present situation, the PYD, which has received US support and been spoiled by the US, is carrying out both ethnic cleansing against Arabs in the region and a political cleansing against Kurds who do not come under its control. In fact, given that the primary victims of this ethnic cleansing are the Arabs of the region, we can repeat, by asking in a different way, a question we asked recently.

We had asked whether the Arab League has a migrant policy concerning the migrants, mostly Arabs, who have been forced to migrate from places such as Syria, Libya, Iraq and Yemen.

Today we repeat that question, taking it one step further: does the Arab League have a concern, and a policy based on that concern, about the ethnic cleansing to which Arab peoples, especially in Syria and Iraq, are being subjected?

The PYD terrorist organization, spoiled and egged on under US support in Syria, is pursuing the establishment of an ethnic state in regions where over 90 percent of the population is Arab.

Let there be no misunderstanding, this state is not a Kurdish state either. Setting aside that a state alienated from Islam, from custom, from humanity has nothing to do with Kurdishness, we already know from the PKK experience that a monstrous ethnic state is being attempted to be imposed on the basis of a made-up Kurdish unrelated to the Kurdish language and, again, a made-up claim of Kurdish culture, and everyone who does not consent to this is being attempted to be deported from there.

There are of course those who greet this practice with enthusiasm in the name of a "Kurdish state." First of all, nothing is left of the Kurdishness of anyone who enthusiastically welcomes, in the name of Kurdishness, enrolling as a legionnaire for such a formation introduced by the US into the peoples of the region like the Trojan horse of an occupation. There can be no greater Kurdish assimilation than such a betrayal. Nothing is left of the Kurdishness of one who welcomes it with satisfaction in the name of Kurdishness anyway, good riddance.

But that is not our subject. The real subject is that while the Arabs are the primary victims of the demographic operation carried out by one means or another, no objection, no voice is raised on this issue from the Arab countries, and especially from the Arab League, the umbrella organization that brings Arab countries together in the name of the value of Arabness.

We see that Arab countries have recently steered toward secularism. Though it was no secret that beneath the appearance of religiosity so far there have always been political choices with extremely secular motivations. That is, these countries did not become secular recently; they have only recently begun to bring their outward appearances into line with their essence. So the only difference for now is that they have taken on an openly secular appearance without even feeling the need for the appearance of religiosity and its legitimizing power. Now they have no concern called Jerusalem, no problem called Palestine, nor do they carry the concern of any Muslim suffering oppression and repression anywhere in the world.

Never mind being Muslim, shouldn't they at least have some concern called Arabness? Right now in Syria millions of Arabs are being subjected to ethnic cleansing, deported from the region directly because they are Arabs. They have no measure, effort or step to prevent them from being subjected to this cruelty. These countries, which are on very good terms with the US, these Arab countries that contribute to the US economy and provide employment to hundreds of thousands of people: would they not issue the US a warning about the Arab ethnic cleansing being carried out in Syria?

And as a result of the ethnic cleansing that has taken place, while millions of Syrians today have been forced to leave their lands and migrate, generally to non-Arab countries, will the Arab League countries not put this issue on their agenda at all? If they will not put such an issue on their agenda and wage the struggle for it, nor think of measures against its problems, what was the Arab League founded for, and what use is it?

I am sure some people are receiving these questions very naively, with a smirk. But I ask sincerely, and I think that an existing institution, whatever the purposes for which it was established, must, and in fact can, do things worthy of its name.

If the Arab League begins to do things worthy of its name, please let it take up the following questions as well: how many of the Arab migrants who have been forced to leave their homelands and migrate today, in countries such as Syria, Yemen, Libya, Egypt and Iraq, because of problems produced by the Arab countries themselves, as a result of struggles carried out on the territory of third Arab countries, are being received by those very Arab countries that caused these problems?

Why do the people fleeing these countries take refuge not in any Arab country but particularly in Turkey and European countries? When do Arab countries intend to provide their own peoples a livable, safe, dignified quality of life?

Why is it non-Arab countries, and not the rulers of Arab countries, that have to think about the dignity of Arab peoples?

By doing so, aren't they in fact themselves producing the necessary pretext, even the ground, for non-Arab countries to intervene in Arab lands?

Meanwhile, let us recall what we always say so that there is no room for misunderstanding. Turkey hosts a larger Arab population than many Arab countries. It therefore has a natural right to speak on behalf of Arab peoples.