Discourse terror over Kobani

Kobani probably entered the agenda of the people of Turkey for the first time in a striking way with the drama of nearly two hundred thousand people who had to take refuge in our country as a result of attacks by DAESH terrorists. In fact, it was not the first stream of refugees to take refuge in Turkey since the beginning of the war in Syria.

Up to those from Kobani, more than one and a half million Syrian refugees in total had already come to Turkey from Syria. The arrival of none of them had been this eventful, this noisy. Turkey, in one way or another, opened its door to everyone fleeing the war, from Arabs to Turkmens, from Armenians to Yazidis, and did not withhold humanitarian aid.

For this reason, Turkey was in fact not merely fulfilling an obligation; on this occasion it was also easing the conscience of a Western humanity that builds high walls of prosperity around itself and, from behind that wall, is unwilling to take in even those fleeing death.

From whichever side you look at it, Turkey's refugee and humanitarian aid policy is a complete epic of humanity. Every day, of the refugees who set out on voyages of hope on ships under inhuman conditions across the Mediterranean, seeking the chance to reach European shores and be saved, hundreds do not even make it to the shores and find the bottom of the sea along the way. Those who do reach them, of course, face completely inhuman treatment.

In recent days, at a summit, the EU countries concluded that they could no longer remain silent in the face of the wave of asylum seekers coming both from Syria and from these journeys of hope, and announced that they could accept 40 thousand refugees to be distributed among all the countries. Just think: this is the number of refugees that all 27 European countries together say they can accept within a year. This figure constitutes only one fifth of the refugees Turkey accepted from Kobani alone within 3 days. Within a few days, 193 thousand Kurds entered Turkey from Kobani; many of them were immediately settled in the camps that have become a hallmark of the quality of Turkey's humanitarian aid, and some dispersed to the cities. Aid to the Kurds coming from Kobani is still continuing.

Whatever was done for the more than one and a half million Syrian refugees before, probably more was done for those coming from Kobani. Yet no wave of refugees made as much noise as those coming from Kobani. Moreover, although no country other than Turkey helped Kobani, the streets of Turkey were turned into a battlefield using what happened in Kobani as a pretext.

The militants whom HDP co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş poured into the streets to draw attention to Kobani staged a complete show of savagery. Yasin Börü and his friends became the symbol of this show of savagery. The militants who went after DAESH themselves turned into DAESH monsters.

That all this savagery was committed in the name of aid to Kobani caused serious confusion about what was happening in Kobani. The way unrelated people produced, from the plain victimhood and cruelty in Kobani, a justification for oppressing other unrelated people began to shape Kobani's silhouette in minds.

Turkey, which has been from the very beginning the primary target and victim of the terrorist organization DAESH, is nevertheless constantly being put side by side with DAESH amid the noise of the Kobani protests. This is undoubtedly a disgusting, dirty, vile propaganda. To the extent that this disgusting propaganda is no less than what the savagery and repulsiveness of DAESH produces, no step to be taken and no word to be said on this matter has any meaning.

While Turkey was concentrating on more effective and more meaningful measures against the destruction DAESH has caused in Syria and Iraq, the moment the attack on Kobani was heard of, without needing any evidence, the parallel media, led by the HDP members, began broadcasting accusing Turkey of supporting DAESH. Even though a senior YPG official himself said, on the basis of a determination, that the militants entered not from Turkey but from the South and from the West, from Jarablus, these broadcasts continued with the same noise.

It is calculated, of course, that these broadcasts have an effect in the world. Naturally, since it cannot be proven, it will not produce a legal outcome, but it is calculated that it will feed the image of Turkey as a country supporting terror. Could there be better terror than that? Terror is not only about exploding bombs. Increasing the effects of the exploding bombs and assigning a target to those bombs is possible through these discourses. So have no doubt that these discourses become part of that terror.

Meanwhile, some have expressed astonishment at our saying that the PYD also carries out deportation. They evidently see the PYD, whose footage of dancing the halay in Tel Abyad, which they entered, was projected to the world as a show of peace, only as a savior. While those militants were dancing the halay, where were the Turkmens and Arabs fleeing across the Turkish border coming from, then?

Really, what is the PYD doing in Tel Abyad, whose population is entirely Turkmen or Arab? Is it liberating it from DAESH, or occupying it? It does not stop at occupying it; it also forces the people of an entire city into exile as a complete ethnic cleansing. And afterward it dances the halay on top of it as if it were an accomplishment. And Western media, with an even greater insolence, presents this insolent halay as "people are happy because they were freed from DAESH tyranny."

Could there be better terror than this insolence that drives one out of one's mind?