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The EU and US we could not see on 15 July jumped up when the HDP was touched

While operations against HDP Deputies continue, the human sensitivity displayed one after another by the Western media and political world is enough to bring tears to the eyes.
In their successive messages and statements, "deep" concern was expressed over the detention of "politicians." News came that EU ambassadors had decided to hold an extraordinary meeting in Ankara.
Mogherini
said in her message:
"I am extremely concerned about the detention of HDP Co-Chair Selahattin Demirtaş and other HDP deputies. We are in contact with the authorities and have spoken with the EU ambassadors in Ankara."
Maria Böhmer, State Minister of the Federal Republic of Germany,
on the same day, wherever her path happened to lead, paid a visit in support of the HDP Parliamentary Group and endorsed the description by HDP officials (Hişyar Özsoy) of "today as one of the darkest days in the history of Turkish democracy."
Subsequently, a message shared by the US Embassy on Twitter included the Turkish translation of a tweet posted in English by US Deputy Secretary of State Tom Malinowski. The tweet said:
"The Turkish government's arrest of HDP leaders and other MPs, and its blocking of internet access, deeply disturbs us as a friend & ally."
At the very time all these statements were being made, the terrorist organization PKK, which the HDP deputies now openly represent, had detonated a one-ton bomb in the middle of Diyarbakır in a setting where civilians were present, ending the lives of 2 police officers and 7 civilians and vilely massacring dozens more.
It seems that for EU circles it is more terrifying that those who use politics as a shield for their support of terror have been arrested under the provisions of the CMUK than that some people have been savagely massacred.
May this double standard, this hypocrisy, this human rights sensitivity full of duplicity, this exploitation of democracy that you rub in our faces sink to the bottom of the earth. The democracy that will come from you and the human rights sensitivity that will come from you have both turned into a reflection, now impossible to hide, of your deep hatred of the people of Turkey.
It is evident that you regard HDP politicians as your own, and evident that for you human rights is a sensitivity that is activated only when people from among your own are touched.
Say this a little more plainly now, so that you too are relieved and we too are relieved.
Until now thousands of people have been massacred by the bombs planted by vile PKK terrorists, and you have not once turned to the PKK and said that this is an inhuman act, that it has nothing to do with Kurdish rights, democratic politics, or the struggle for freedom.
So it did not come from within you, because now we understand very clearly that the lives of the citizens of the Republic of Turkey, whom PKK terror targets, are worth not a whit to you. Had they mattered even a little, when the HDP deputies for whom you hastened today to mourn and show solidarity attended the funeral of the PKK terrorist who took the lives of 32 citizens in a vile suicide attack and wounded hundreds, regarding him as a hero, you would have seen the insincerity and voiced your reaction that day. You would have said politics and terror cannot go together. You would have given them a lesson or two. You would have done this, even if for show.
We have not heard even the slightest admonition from any EU official telling the HDP deputies that they must put a distance between terror and politics.
Here is the finest test for you
. The deep indifference shown, toward those who lost their lives in the bomb that exploded in Diyarbakır, by those who on the same day raised a clamor about democracy and human rights because HDP deputies were being arrested. Whom are you lecturing? What good will come to Turkey from you?
With each passing day both Europe and America are dropping their masks toward Turkey more and more. The US continues to support the PKK's militants disguised as JPG or PYD, who keep taking lives with terror acts against civilians and soldiers alike every day against Turkey, despite all of Turkey's warnings.
Because of this support, ethnic cleansing is openly taking place in both Syria and Iraq.
Moreover, a significant portion of the weapons given to the PYD passes to the PKK to be used in terror acts against Turkey
.
The same US continues to harbor the ringleader of the terrorist organization FETÖ, which attempted an armed coup against Turkish democracy, massacred hundreds of people and wounded thousands in the process, in an environment where he can freely carry out his activities.
Is it possible for the US, which harbors Turkey's Osama bin Laden, to fight terror?
Insincerity and ugliness drip from every side when they talk about democracy and human rights.
In contrast to the slowness both the EU and the US displayed against the 15 July coup attempt and PKK terror, the swift reflex they show in operations against FETÖ and the HDP cannot be evaluated separately from one another by anyone in Turkey.
The perception that the EU is the greatest supporter of terror activities in Turkey is spreading with each passing day, and unfortunately this perception has a real counterpart.
At the very worst,
is the operation against the HDP deputies graver than 15 July in terms of the history of democracy
, that EU officials, who could stop by Turkey only a month after 15 July, appear at the HDP group within the very first hours of the detention to pay a support visit?
What love is this, what passion?
What common values, what common plans make you so bound to one another? Whose hatred, enmity, grudge against whom brings you together?
It is not that we do not understand or feel it
. And because we feel it, we say: take one another, add your hatred of this people to your love for one another, and go as far as it takes you.