An operation that wrong-footed everyone

We can say that the operation launched by TSK aircraft first against DAESH positions on our Syrian border, and then against PKK camps in Northern Iraq, has been received positively in the world in general. Turkey's undertaking an operation against DAESH is not at all surprising, contrary to what is supposed or to the perception that some people inside Turkey have fabricated and tried to feed.

In fact, Turkey's attitude toward DAESH has been clear from the beginning. From the very moment DAESH emerged, Turkey was the first country to put it on its terror list. For those who follow what is happening with a little prudence, it is very clear that DAESH, in Syria and Iraq and indeed across the whole Middle East, targeted Turkey and the political line Turkey represents first of all.

Despite this, the parallel and PKK media above all, who "found it fitting" to attribute support for DAESH to Turkey, were reflecting the filth in their own minds and hearts through the massacres they committed against the truth. If they were making this black propaganda with a degree of belief, it is inevitable that they have been caught off balance, in a sense, by Turkey's operations against DAESH. But it must be well known that their being caught off balance has come, at best, from their own stupidity, since Turkey's attitude toward DAESH has been utterly clear from the start.

CAN THE HDP DO POLITICS WITHOUT PAYING ITS DEBT TO THE PKK?

Let us come to the operations that TSK aircraft have undertaken against PKK camps. These operations are seen to be received in the world as Turkey's most natural right of defense against terror. Although questions and concerns are expressed about the fate of the resolution process, even though the HDP, as the PKK's political movement, has been given the opportunity of representation in parliament with 80 deputies, that is, with the same number of seats as the Turkish nationalist MHP, the message it has given with its latest attacks that it will not give up violence either has explained well enough that the resolution process cannot already be accepted in this way and cannot continue.

The more important side of the operation, the one to be taken more into account, is undoubtedly its reflections among the people of Turkey. Let us say it very openly: in the region, the operations seem to have answered a great expectation even among masses a significant portion of whom voted for the HDP. Because it was quickly seen that those who entered parliament after creating a great expectation with the slogan "we are going to parliament" had no effect whatsoever in silencing the arms and opening the way for a solution.

The PKK left no sphere of influence whatsoever to the HDP, whose election campaign it ran with its own hands and in the shadow of arms. Far from giving up arms, it began to give the clear impression that it would in no way give up the advantage that armed force provides it. It expected that the state of being an armed organization with a political party would be accepted de facto. Because it was seized by a disease of petulance and arrogance that it could make everyone accept everything by force of arms. It perceived the patience the government displayed in the resolution process as a weakness and moved to exploit this weakness by going back on its own word, betraying the solution.

While moving to organize the region from end to end, leaving no gap, it began to determine people's daily lives with a thoroughly totalitarian gloom and to impose great costs on them. It began to seize people's property, money, peace, children. The thousands of children it seized, most of them under 18, it sent, in their raw state, to Kobani to fight DAESH terror. Many families began to live with the anxiety and hatred accumulated in not even being able to ask about their children's fate. People who show a slightly different civil presence are immediately summoned to the camps for a statement and subjected to fines or exile.

The PKK never thought of opening the HDP's way as a political party with the votes it gathered for the HDP and stepping aside itself. It left the HDP only a very narrow space in which to represent, when needed, its own armed tutelage in the political field.

Truly, this narrow space is not an excuse for the HDP not to do politics. Despite this tutelary pressure of the PKK, if they wish, HDP members can choose politics and take a courageous stance against arms. If they do so, they can turn into a truly strong political party.

An HDP that does politics free of PKK tutelage can undoubtedly be a much larger political party that makes a positive difference. But unfortunately we see no sign that the HDP members have this courage.

That the operation coming in just this atmosphere has even greatly relieved people in the Southeast is enough of a lesson for the HDP members regarding the path they have taken. That, although they did not raise their voices while police officers were being killed, they began at once to talk about peace as soon as the operations started shows how false, and how infuriatingly shameless, the language they have built is, beginning with the word "peace," and truly it promises no hope for politics.

ARİN and SİBEL

The report prepared by the CHP also revealed what kind of fault and negligence the HDP members were in over the Suruç bombing, confirming the questions Bülent Arınç asked. An important detail that drew little attention in the incident was the slogan the crowd was chanting as the bomb exploded: in the slogan "From Arin to Sibel, we march to victory," hardly anyone wondered who Arin (Mirkan) and Sibel (Bulut) were. But both lost their lives while carrying out suicide bombing actions in Kobani, women one of whom (Arin) was of the JPG and the other of the MLKP.

That they fell victim to a suicide action while declaring that they were on the path of suicide bombers must be one of the tragic aspects of this incident. But should this situation not also trigger a host of other questions about the incident? Is the relationship between the bomb's exploding just as this slogan was being chanted only a coincidence? Where is the culture that makes these young people sanctify suicide action(ists) so much formed?