A look at Yemen in the light of Turkey's Libya, Azerbaijan and Somalia experience

The role played in Libya by Turkey, which stepped in at the call of the Libyan people to prevent a coup and occupation, also puts forward a model that international actors, even the UN, should follow in establishing peace and solution. Had Turkey not stepped in, there would now be nothing in Libya for the Libyan people to discuss; either the coup and occupation would have been completed and partition would be under discussion. Yet now a model is working in which all sides of the Libyan people are discussing and trying to determine their own future.

Thanks to this, dialogue tables that previously could not be set up because of the coup plotter Haftar's recognizing no social force in Libya on account of the overwhelming support he had received have begun to be set up and operated again. The roadmap talks on building Libya's future, which began last week in Tunisia, are being conducted with a 75-member delegation to represent all segments of Libya. In our last column we had drawn attention to the fact that the coup-plotting and occupying forces are trying, through their familiar intrigues, to do what they could not do with coup and occupation. Indeed, the talks were postponed to next week because of a dispute that arose over the appointment of the presidency and could not be resolved. Truthfully, the real principle that needs to be agreed on is the development of a common stance against solutions that would be imposed on the Libyan people by means of coups.

From the moment Turkey entered Libya at the invitation of the National Government, the state of civil war on the ground has rapidly given way to an environment of peace and stability. The environment of destruction that had become permanent has given way to an environment of reconstruction and restructuring.

In fact, this is not the only experience of Turkey that has manifested in this way in crisis regions. Turkey, rushing to the aid of the Syrian people, who lived for years in a war environment deprived of every kind of security, began to ensure the safety of life of about 6 million Syrians in the safe zones it created. A large part of those living in these zones, whose security Turkey ensures, have also begun to build their lives and to catch the advantages of a stable environment. In addition to the 6 million people inside Syria, it has also taken on responsibility for 4 million asylum seekers inside Turkey.

Turkey, which intervened, again upon the invitation of the Azerbaijani people, in Nagorno-Karabakh, another crisis region that had been under occupation for 28 years, established the solution there as well. Now Armenia has agreed to withdraw from the regions it has kept under occupation for years. Setting aside that this peace pleases the Azerbaijanis simply by returning their occupied lands to them, it can be said that it will provide great advantages to Armenia in the future too. After all, the only obstacle to Armenia, which has a border with Turkey, benefiting from its possibilities was its dispute with Azerbaijan. When this dispute disappears, there will remain no obstacle to re-establishing the historical relations between Turkey and Armenia in mutual respect and understanding.

We are not even mentioning the constructive and positive roles Turkey has played in Somalia and Qatar.

As for those who criticize Turkey for interfering in the affairs of the Arabs: it is evident that they have made all the problems whose solution they undertook over the last ten years even more intractable.

In Libya they have had no function other than creating the conditions of a civil war that would never end.

As for the intervention they have been carrying out in Yemen for 5 years, it is far from seeking a solution, and serves no purpose other than to deepen the problem further and make it intractable. The aim of Operation Decisive Storm, launched 5 years ago under the leadership of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, was to defend the legitimate administration against the Iran-backed Houthis, who had attempted a coup against the legitimate government in Yemen, and to re-establish the administration. Yet during the five years that have passed the Houthis have not been overcome. This is not, of course, because the Houthis are very strong. However much support the Houthis may receive from Iran, it was impossible anyway for them to sustain a coup against the Yemeni people. But while fighting the Houthis, the coalition forces at the same time followed confidence-destroying policies that would weaken Yemen's other forces too.

Yet establishing peace and stability in Yemen was never that difficult. The Yemeni people want peace and stability anyway. Even if the ongoing dialogue environment had been left to itself, there was a process that could have worked on its own. But the Coalition forces, regarding all the elements of Yemen as potential enemies today or tomorrow, applied a strange balance policy. Their priority was never to bring peace and stability to the Yemeni people, but to establish an administration that would be subordinate to them.

The way to bring Yemen to stability was to recognize all the elements of the Yemeni people and to open the way for a dialogue environment that would keep them together in peace. A policy applied by constantly using one side against the other cannot possibly ensure unity and integrity in a country.

The worse side of the matter is that the Coalition's two major partners follow policies very different from one another. The UAE, when the occasion arose, never held back from cooperating covertly with the Houthis, whom the Coalition was fighting. When both the Houthis and the supporters of the Islah Party, which is socially Yemen's most widespread, most organized and most legitimate force, are seen as enemies, then in order to establish superiority in Yemen it would anyway be necessary to destroy the Yemeni people wholesale and import another people from outside.

If a solution and stability are truly wanted in Yemen, it is worthwhile to take lessons from the by now proven solution models of Turkey in Syria, Libya, Somalia and Azerbaijan. But if a solution is truly wanted....