The propaganda that seduced both Chomsky and Žižek

The HDP appears not only to have embraced as a resistance movement the trench terror that the PKK is carrying out in the Southeast, but also to have taken on its promotion and propaganda discourse. It is truly very hard to work out the logic of defending so fiercely a form of action so senseless that it drives a wider and wider wedge between the Kurds and the PKK and HDP. Why would a political movement that has been able to say what it wants in the TBMM and pursue the politics it wants on the ground of democracy look for help in becoming the political spokesman of a form of action like trench terror?

With every day that trench terror continues, hatred toward the PKK and HDP politicians is growing even among the segments that themselves voted for the HDP, and the voices of those cursing are being heard more and more. Despite this, the HDP members behave as though they have buried their political mission entirely in a trench.

Although such a hard-to-explain stance is hard to explain at the level of the PKK's or the HDP's relationship with the Kurds, it must be admitted that this style of politics takes as its interlocutor not the Kurds but other segments. That is, the launch of trenches dug at the cost of ruining the lives of the Kurdish people is being made to the Western world and to the orientalists among us, and an attempt is being made to give the impression that a struggle for freedom is being waged here.

Who cares what this terror will cost in the lives of the Kurds. Isn't the HDPKK's relationship with the Kurds already very clear? To those who fled their homes because of the trenches they dug in front of their homes, they said, "we are here for you, we are doing this to save you, where are you running to?", and whom did they manage to convince? The Kurdish people openly rejected this terror, saying, "where did you get the idea that we want such a salvation?", but this rejection was in no way enough to stop the militants who are after self-rule.

In any case there is a mass of voluntary fools ready to buy this savage image by writing under it whatever caption is wanted, ready to see this image in the desired way, different from what it is.

Those who signed the academics' declaration are, after all, too absorbed in high politics to concern themselves with what kind of wretchedness people who have trenches dug in front of their homes have been plunged into. The heavily made-up eulogies that people who could not tolerate a pit being dug in front of their own homes even for a sewer or telecommunications work make for the trenches dug in the East also find buyers. The truths they murdered by distorting them, they fed, in their murdered state, to other people's Noam Chomsky and other people's Slavoc Zizek.

They have practically seduced a whole host of academics and philosophers like these. In a way they actually did well. They enabled us to see how empty the knowledge such personages have produced until now is, how severed their ties with reality are, and how far the repressed feelings inside them are from what they say.

The stances of Zizek or Chomsky come, of course, not from love for the Kurds but from their repressed hatred of Muslims and especially of Turkey.

They evidently see the Kurds as different from Muslims, because in the typology reflected to them, raised and launched by the PKK and HDP, they see the Kurds as secular people, distant from religion and from the Diyanet. In this typology even people who have been handed weapons and are the age of their fathers, and even 13-year-old children who fire bullets at women and children without batting an eye, can look quite sympathetic.

Do they not know that at the core of those Kurds there is Saladin the Ayyubid, and that today's Kurds are by no means far from producing new Saladins?

But they evidently see Recep Tayyip Erdoğan as Saladin's heir, so that on June 7 their own media could not stop themselves from throwing out the headline "the Saladin of the millennium has been stopped!" like a cry of joy.

Having identified the weakness of these lustful buyers, our people give and give lies and propaganda.

With a weapon in hand, even while detonating bombs that cause the deaths of innocent people, it can say peace. Even while attacking in its most savage form, it can imitate the sighs of the oppressed.

Just look at the events of recent days that have taken the HDP deputies as far as a hunger strike. The men have massed in the middle of the city, using the residents as shields, with enough of the heaviest weapons to fight for months, have gone into battle order, and gone beyond it, and are fighting. They drag the city with all its residents into the middle of a fire, yet they can market the security forces' intervention against them as a human rights massacre. They wail that the state does not help the armed elements wounded in the fighting and trapped in a basement, does not send an ambulance.

The ambulance that goes cannot get through anyway because of the pits they themselves dug, and whoever finds a way and reaches it, they fire at.

Despite this they can display the shamelessness of presenting the incident as a civilian massacre.

This shamelessness is in fact the place where the quality of humanity hits rock bottom.

It is a state of degradation in which the human word has no value left, in which news or a humane stance has been rendered entirely meaningless. It is the place where, thinking what is there left to say to anyone, what is there left to tell anyone, all your hope in words runs out and your respect for humankind ends.

With this shamelessness they cannot, of course, deceive anyone with even a modicum of a sense of reality, but unfortunately the world does not consist only of people passionately attached to the sense of truth.