The MHP's dangerous dance with the HDP

Before we could even learn the details of the PKK's ambushing, booby-trapped, treacherous attack in Dağlıca, news came from Iğdır of its attack, equally treacherous, with mines, that ended in the martyrdom of 13 of our police officers. These vile attacks of the terrorist organization must have awakened a feeling of horror, even if small in scale, in the Western world too, which has lately been so fond of it. Even if slightly, an awareness arose that these terrorists who took 29 lives in 2 days are not normal people who wear make-up and live their ordinary loves and lives, as they are romanticized in documentaries.

At the same time, no one should expect us to believe that the terrorist organization carried out all these actions without the support of various actors, Westerners among them. The reality of "foreign fighters" fighting in the ranks of the PKK constitutes one of the dirtiest sides of this dirty war.

But the question of where, how and through whom the terrorist organization obtains tons of explosives, moreover of advanced technology, harbors a host of relationships once it is probed to the bottom. The real point to be dwelt on here is the logistical-moral support politicians and the media provide to these terrorist incidents. Deputy Prime Minister Yalçın Akdoğan says that the Doğan and Parallel media in particular play the role of a silencer practically fitted to the guns of these terror attacks, which is a perfectly apt description.

This media of Turkey does something far worse than the counterfeiting the BBC displays when romanticizing bloody-handed terrorist women. While the PKK was martyring dozens of our soldiers in the vilest way in one day, this front of the media, which should have been part of, and an active agent in, a full social consensus against terror across the whole country, strikes at the same target as terror, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Prime Minister Davutoğlu.

The HDP buildings burned in actions held in various parts of the country after the attacks, identity checks, and roadblocks with license-plate checks show that the reaction to follow the terror attacks was carried out with finely calculated planning.

Moreover, the forms of action that MHP supporters tried to develop over the funerals of martyrs reveal a situation that is, in a word, simply worrying about the MHP's vision of Turkish politics. For the MHP, the funerals of martyrs and deaths, especially the deaths of soldiers and police, are never a source of sorrow. The PKK kills, while the MHP receives these deaths with hypocritical crocodile tears but with great joy inwardly. The actions displayed at the funerals are not an expression of pain, sorrow or grief over the martyr's death; on the contrary, they display, in all its filth and ugliness, an opportunism that sees the martyr as a tool of political profit.

No one remembers any proposal by the MHP for this country's politics, for the resolution of problems. The rejectionist, negativist stance it displayed in the coalition talks was an attitude contrary to the ontology of a political party. For the primary and ultimate aim of all political parties is to come to power and fulfil their promises. As Tuğrul Türkeş reminded, Alparslan Türkeş in the seventies, with three deputies, as a coalition partner secured many gains for the idealist community. But the only vision Bahçeli has put before the MHP and the idealist community is the votes that can be secured by detonating the anger that martyrs' funerals will produce. Yet when that anger explodes, neither a healthy society nor an MHP will be left. The gain being eyed is nothing other than a conflict-ridden environment that will make it impossible to hold a country together

It is known that the main aim of the PKK's attacks is to make it impossible for the Kurdish people, who have lived together in this geography for a thousand years, to live together with the other social elements. The only structure that would profit from these elements, which have never excluded one another socially, particularly the Turkish and Kurdish elements, being set against each other in this way is the terrorist organization PKK. It is very clear that, with the incidents the MHP organizes and the negativist politics it displays, it has been caught in the PKK's wake.

That after so much negativist politics the proposal it has brought is "martial law" is in fact a still deeper stage of denying its own political existence. On this occasion we watched with astonishment a facileness that supposes no question will ever be directed at it about what business it does in politics or what it is good for, and wants to get off by handing its own duty over to the army.

After this wholehearted contribution to the image of a country that not even opposition to terror can unite, I do wonder what the MHP understands by nationalism or statism. Does Bahçeli have a prescription for keeping this nation together, in love or in peace? If you are so against the terrorist organization, in this environment where terror has run rampant, should you not support the struggle that all of Turkey's armed elements are waging against terror? With every move you make, with every word you say, are you not aware that you are breaking the resolve in the fight against terror and cheering up the PKK?

Really, whose nationalist are you, of which country, of which nation?