Is this oppression fit for the people of Kobani?

The resolution process is a process that moves forward despite all the road accidents, sabotage, obstructions and provocations so far. However, looking at its balance sheet to date, let us admit that there is a serious difference in how the parties view the process and in the meaning they attribute to it.

In general, there is no sameness between the meaning attributed by Turkey, the AK Parti or the government and the meaning and expectations attributed by the HDP. In line with the goals and programs it has set out since the hour it was founded in 2001, the AK Parti looks at the process as a part of the social restoration project, as a requirement of making the state belong to the people and serve them, as a part of the project of reconciling and uniting its own people among themselves and integrating them with the state.

At the same time, it has the good intention of completing, with the success of this process, a success story many chapters of which have already been written within itself. It is aware that this success story addresses not only the people of Turkey but also people in the region, and even all over the world, who would be excited by the possibility of the story of a successful Islamic country, and that it constitutes an answer to their expectations. A model of an Islamic state that solves its problems by talking and negotiating, and approaches the demands and expectations of its own citizens with respect, is seen today as too much for the Islamic world, and Turkey also wants, to some extent, to record this surplus as a success story.

That this experience, which is in essence extremely ordinary in the history of the Islamic world, can be received these days as a success story is a problem in itself, but it is also a fact that Turkey is the country that has come closest to restoring this degenerate state of affairs.

Of course, the expectations of the AK Parti and of Turkey in general, simpler even than the resolution process and related to everyday life, are peace, people not dying, and being freed from the gloom that security measures bring into daily life.

Yet it is seen that the approaches of the PKK and HDP circles to the resolution process, and their expectations from this process, are different. From the first stages of the process, the organization never came close to the condition of laying down arms. While laying down arms was a precondition of the process, the organization saw the state's calm during the resolution process as an opportunity both to recruit more militants to its mountain cadre and to militarize more of its members in the city.

The October 6-7 events laid bare, in all its nakedness, the fact of how the organization had abused the resolution process. Of course, they pointed not only to its abuse but also to some dangerous limits regarding its ethical nature.

The organization, which unleashed fires all around in the name of a call for help to Kobani, tried to obscure the effort of Turkey, the only country truly helping Kobani. Through the campaigns it conducted, it awakened to the situation in Kobani the humanism of a world that displays no sensitivity to the massacre of civilians, women and children, taking place at every moment in every corner of Syria. In fact there was an open deception in this awakening, but it seems that those who were deceived were also quite willing to be deceived. The world, which turned its attention to Kobani, continued to remain blind and deaf to Aleppo, Homs, Idlib, Gaza, Rabia.

In the end, even though not even the world that turned its attention to the tragedy in Kobani gave any notable aid that would soothe the hearts of the Kobani Kurds, it was again Turkey that rushed to help, not anyone else. In the first stage it prevented civilian losses by opening its doors to nearly 200 thousand civilian Kurds and giving humanitarian aid. After that it allowed the passage of Peshmerga aid to the PYD members fleeing ISIS, and as if that were not enough it made it possible for a group of 1,500 people from the Free Syrian Army to rush to the defense of Kobani.

This help was extremely critical. Moreover, the FSA, which fights against Assad, had previously been officially stabbed in the back by the PYD, to whose aid it is now rushing. By doing so, the FSA in a way also showed how sincere it is in the demand for a united Syria, by fighting in solidarity with the Kurds against ISIS militants, most of whom are Arab.

Now that ISIS has been driven out, HDP deputies have gotten up and are making statements like "Kobani was saved only by the Kurds, Kobani needs no one. On the contrary, everyone needs Kobani," statements that are an affront to reason and conscience whichever end you take them from to correct them.

Come on, you are the ones who raised an uproar over the "Kobani tragedy," who called the world to help, who asked for help from Turkey and the whole world. The world too, answering these calls for help, showed Kobani a favor that it has shown to no oppressed people in the world, saved Kobani from the ISIS plague, and did well to do so.

If a person from Kobani comes forward and asks, "If you are going to be ungrateful, be so in your own name; why are you doing it in the name of the people of Kobani?", what will you say?

Really, go ask them: would the people of Kobani take on such an ungrateful attitude?

The people of Kobani are not a people who will forget what was done for them in their hour of need and who will meet it with such ingratitude.

By displaying this attitude in their name, you may well have oppressed them more than ISIS has.