Wasn't it you who said the solution process should end? "Who is this service for?"

Those who until now have seen the resolution process almost as a betrayal, who have tied everything that has befallen us to the resolution process, and who have run unimaginable schemes to bring the process to an end, naturally could not be expected to express joy, saying "we got just what we wanted," now that the resolution process has been put in the freezer.

We expected the opposite, and so it happened: now that the resolution process has been put in the freezer, this time they have begun to rail against the government on the grounds that the resolution process has been ended. The successive funerals of martyrs create the most convenient atmosphere for loading these attacks onto the pain, the tears and the cries of others.

It emerges that the person who, at one funeral, introduced himself as a martyr's relative and lit the fuse of a protest was a DHKP-C militant who had nothing whatsoever to do with the martyr, and that the one who undertook the same job at another funeral was a PKK terrorist. At yet another funeral, MHP youths do the same thing.

Even before the resolution process began, martyrs' funerals were generally material the MHP used, and worked as a factor that raised its votes even if it did nothing. That is why, even if the MHP did nothing, these funerals became the most important instrument of the war-mongering of those centers that wanted to speculate on votes.

Just think: as a political party, you need not develop any solution, any project or program regarding the problems the country is going through. A war has begun, and all the martyrs' funerals that may result from this war will automatically work for this party.

In fact, the idea of preventing these martyrs' funerals from becoming cheap material for somebody's politics was one of the factors that convinced people of the necessity of the resolution process. More precisely, the resolution process was the result of an increasingly clear reasoning that a different path had to be tried for the solution of a chronic problem that had lasted 30 years and squandered the country's material and spiritual resources.

As a result of the thirty-year war, nearly 50 thousand people had been lost, yet in the end neither had the state been able to solve the problem nor had the organization made any headway. This vicious circle constantly threatened the country's integrity, its well-being and its social peace, and as there was no sign on the horizon of a definitive solution to it, the constant repetition of the same events and the same results created in society a weariness and an expectation of a different path to a solution. A different path had to be tried. This could not go on like this forever.

The resolution process was an answer given to society's expectation that this field be opened up to politics and to the demand that the blood finally stop. It was a great and courageous step, taken toward stopping the flowing blood, by a political understanding that founded its mission on keeping alive, not on killing.

However, the basic assumption of this great step was that those who had taken up arms would not need arms if they found a fully democratic environment in which they could express themselves freely. Full democratization was in any case a mission that the AK Parti had undertaken to carry out without needing anyone's demand. That is why all that remained was for the organization to lay down its arms and withdraw, and for the state not to conduct operations in the meantime. Unfortunately, although the state did more than its share in the meantime, the organization did not lay down its arms. On the contrary, by managing to pretend that it was not neglecting the resolution process, at least in appearance, it increased its armed presence and its domination over the area with each passing day. It did not attack the security forces directly, but it increased its pressure on the people and increased its armed elements. This in fact shows that from the beginning it would not remain loyal to the resolution process, and that from the start it harbored an intention of betrayal. There is no point in presenting the brutal murder of two police officers sleeping in their homes in Ceylanpınar as the only reason for ending the resolution process. In fact, that incident was the last straw. Up to that incident, the game the organization had been playing over the region, expressed with words such as "self-defense," "autonomy," "cantons," had turned into a fait accompli no longer possible for the people of the region to bear.

If the resolution process were to continue in this form, with the state's well-intentioned patience, there arose the danger that the despotism over the area that the organization has established over the region would lead to an altogether different result for the country's security.

"DID YOU SAY 'FRATRICIDE'?"

Ekrem Dumanlı, implying that they were unable to prevent the recent terror incidents, says, "Where is this country's intelligence?" He thereby gives a message about what the absence of the purged parallelist police officers has cost. Yet those outcries expose the parallelist share in this very PKK terror that has taken place, and he is unaware of it.

Then the Zaman newspaper, while every day PKK members carry out treacherous attacks and make our soldiers martyrs, covers its own betrayal by calling what is happening "fratricide."

Yet there is no fratricide whatsoever. The people of Turkey, with all their components, Turk, Kurd, Arab, Circassian, Alevi-Sunni, are brothers, and the fight is not taking place between these brothers. The essence of the matter is the vile attack on Turkey by treacherous, subcontractor organizations in concert, and Turkey's defending itself against these attacks.

These attacks existed even before the resolution process, which you called a betrayal as you pestered the nation, and the resolution process had stopped the flow of this blood. As a result of the abuse of the resolution process, there is an inevitable situation of national defense, and where each stands in this defense is not surprising at all. The enemies of the nation, in a division of labor, each fulfill the task that falls to them. With the "himmet" money collected from our dear nation, the parallel structure now undertakes its "hizmet" on the same side as the PKK. To whom, one wonders, is this service? Or who is serving whom? Tell us, when did you become brothers with the PKK members, dozens of whom you killed in every episode, that you now try to make them brothers with the children of this nation whose lives they have targeted?