"If you want peace, the place to march to is not Cizre but Kandil"

We wrote about the MHP's dangerous dance with the HDP. It is understood that this is a dance whose preparation was made in advance by both sides. Actually, although we say HDP, it is by now not at all wrong to understand this entirely as PKK. Because the HDP is a party that has presented its political existence as a gift to the PKK's armed existence.

Taking the June 7 elections as an opportunity presented to us, the HDP's entry into parliament in a way that would exclude the option of arms, bring politics to the fore and thus make it possible for every kind of idea, even the most radical, to be expressed in parliament and other political arenas and for its cases to be pursued, unfortunately produced exactly the opposite result. The HDP does not believe in politics, so how could it widen the arena of politics. All the HDP's election campaigns until now had been run by the PKK itself, with all its armed forces. That is why, because of the HDP's heavy debt to the PKK, it was in any case impossible for it to see itself in a position to give advice to the PKK.

Even so, the calls made sheepishly to the PKK to "take hands off the barrels" or to "silence the guns," so that Cihangir friends and Doğan media could see them as a purchase of democracy, were immediately rejected by Kandil, accompanied by a scolding that put them in their place. From here on it would have been expected that the HDP had dashed all the hopes held of it to become a political party, yet for our Cihangir society and the Doğan media, and especially for Nazlı Ilıcak, hope is not given up on the HDP.

Unfortunately, this hope is not the hope that the HDP might sooner or later take a stand against the PKK's murders that destroy the political arena and sanctify violence. The hope is still that Recep Tayyip Erdoğan can be pushed back and defeated in the elections by the exploits of the armed organization behind the HDP.

Hope is the bread of the poor, of course. Let them eat their fill of the hope of toppling Erdoğan by means of the HDPKK. But let them not try to make this nation eat it too.

For some time now, like a broken record, Nazlı Ilıcak has been presenting words that AK Parti circles uttered during the solution process, for the sake of the possibility of dialogue, integration and bonding that could develop among the people of this country as an achievement of the solution process, almost as treason to the homeland. Skipping, of course, in what context and under what conditions these words were said. Yet despite this effort, on the other hand she presents the end of the solution process as a betrayal.

Let the poor woman decide already. Was it the solution process that was a betrayal, or the ending of the solution process? If the solution process and the discourses in keeping with the spirit of this process were wrong, then whatever part of the damage is turned back from, owing to the solution process having been ended today, should be counted as profit, should it not?

But no, while Mrs. Nazlı counts the solution process as a loss, she presents the ending of the solution process as a war of the Palace, and at the same time can say she will vote for the HDP precisely in a period when martyrs are coming one after another, when the PKK is attacking this country with its most violent betrayal and vileness. She is of course not the only one doing this. There are dozens of people in their own media who repeat similar pieces at the same time with a kind of robot-writing performance.

This is a state of frenzy. The very name Erdoğan is enough to make some people lose their minds. For what is being done and said is neither something that serves reason nor something that a person with even a little concern for nation and homeland could do.

Although it is true that the solution process ended with the brutal martyrdom of two police officers, it is not true that, when everything was rosy and the PKK was keeping all its word, it ended only with the killing of two police officers. The slaughter of the two police officers was the last straw that made the cup overflow. For, had this too been endured, a stage had been reached at which state authority in Turkey would be wholly questioned. What was expected of the PKK during the solution process was to lay down its arms and withdraw its armed elements abroad. This was the most important precondition for the continuation of the process. Yet the PKK not only did not withdraw its armed elements but followed a course of activity that increased its armed elements more with each passing day. That some things were endured for the sake of the solution process cannot mean that they were overlooked. The solution process had a nature, and that for a full two and a half years no blood was shed in this country is a great achievement. At the same time, there is nothing incomprehensible about having considered the possibility that this matter could be resolved in another way, out of respect for the lives of this country's young people and the hearts of parents. Having considered this possibility deserves every appreciation simply as an expression of respect for life, peace, brotherhood, and Turkey's unity and togetherness.

However, it was not necessary for the PKK to abuse this process. But once it was well understood by all that it had abused it, not intervening is also contrary to a state's reason for existence.

As for the HDP, since it could not make the PKK listen to it in this process, it is rapidly moving away from a point where it could be met with understanding. On the contrary, it is very clear that the PKK easily makes the HDP listen to it and sees it as instruments that can be used in the desired places in its own program. For wherever there is an intervention by the army against PKK terror, Demirtaş marches there to stop that intervention and to make its rightfulness debatable.

One would think he is truly a peace marcher. Yet, as Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu said so aptly, "if you are so devoted to peace, the place you should march to is not Cizre or Diyarbakır but Kandil." Because it is Kandil that today shows it never believed in peace during the solution process and, on the contrary, used all the time to prepare for a war.