"Their children" failed again this time

Western reactions to the detention of HDP deputies have revealed the great and deep love between them. The approach of EU circles to the HDP and the PKK is in itself a typical event that deserves every kind of political-academic analysis in terms of the history of democracy and East-West relations. It forms a very clear picture of how Europe's discourse of democracy operates as an imperial discourse, especially on non-Western societies. The discourse of democracy and human rights works as a shield that opens the way only for its own men, its own chosen children (their boys), and protects them.

Their own children exist all over the world, and there they carry out their own plans and pursue their own politics. When these chosen children are touched, human rights have been violated; there the standard of democracy is determined by the freedom of movement of those children. The human rights violated by these children are not even mentioned.

As chosen children, they have every right in their struggle. As they are eternally oppressed, opposition, and have had their rights trampled, they have unlimited claims on the rights, lives and peace of others.

The terror they commit is not called terror; the people they kill are either not innocent or are counted among the insignificant losses on the road to their children's freedom.

Regarding the PKK, one of their children that takes the lives of a great many civilians every day through terror attacks without sparing women and children, a court in Belgium even issued a ruling that it

"is an armed opposition movement, not a terrorist organization."

Were we surprised? In fact, however well we know how sensitive they are about their own children with all this "anti-terror" rhetoric, we would not have expected such a stance from a court in the capital of the European Union.

The blood of those who died in the attack on the airport in their own country has not yet dried, and, at least, the state of emergency into which they entered in panic right after that event has not yet been lifted. We cannot help asking who could possibly entertain the idea that DAESH, which also targets that same Belgium, is "an armed opposition movement against Belgium."

It is clear that Europeans have a deep love for the PKK, but it is equally clear that this is not a "love of Kurds." Their children are only the PKK and its political extensions. Through the wave of armed terror created by the PKK they aim to open the way to a deep cultural transformation among the Kurdish population. Thus, with children recruited from among the grandchildren of Saladin, they are in fact taking revenge on the Kurds themselves. That is the truth of the matter.

It is also very evident that the PKK, and the HDP as its political organ, win Europeans' favor to the extent that they take Kurds out of their Kurdishness.

Let us come to the reflections of the arrest of the HDP members among the Kurdish people. The process of the past year and a half has clearly shown how far the PKK and HDP have broken and drifted from the Kurdish people. The reaction that PKK and HDP circles, and even European and US circles, expected from the Kurdish people against the arrest of the deputies did not come. On the contrary, the Kurds showed that they had almost been expecting these arrests. Even further, after the three tons of bombs the PKK detonated in the city yesterday, which resulted in 11 deaths and hundreds of injuries, the Kurdish people showed their reaction to the PKK by raiding the HDP building and smashing its windows with stones. The police prevented the reaction against the HDP from growing further.

Through the trench actions, through the spoiled attitude it assumed after the solution process, through an aggressive politics instead of deepening the solution, the HDP showed the Kurds themselves how far it is from the emotional and meaning world of the Kurdish people.

Yet the Kurds had not given their votes for this. The Kurds gave their votes so that violence would end, but the HDP, despite its claim to be a political party, used the votes it received like a blank check with which to deepen violence all the more.

Thus the HDP showed that it did not care about the Kurds at all. In return, the Kurds now show that they no longer care about the HDP at all.

Neither for the municipalities to which trustees were appointed nor for the arrested HDP deputies has there been the slightest reaction from the Kurdish people; on the contrary, masses who previously voted for the HDP support these measures. Because no one can regard a people's votes as a sure thing, to represent them forever and as they please. If one does and behaves irresponsibly, what has befallen the HDP will befall him. Have no doubt about it.

The HDP members openly provoked so that what has befallen them would befall them

. Not only did they put no distance between themselves and the terrorist organization, they did all they could to close even the most natural distance that exists. They took part in the terrorist organization's activities and in the funerals of suicide bombers, and carried terrorists to and from actions in their cars.

They wanted these supports given to terror to be accepted within Turkey's own democracy as a "privilege" or a "special case" belonging to them.

Thus they wanted to create, within Turkey's own democracy, an autonomous, even independent sphere, whose rules they would determine themselves and in which they would rule without being subject to any rule. That is, a sphere in which they would benefit from all the possibilities of politics while weapons, threats, mafia-style relations and extortion would be specially tolerated for them.

Turning a blind eye to the existence of this sphere would in fact have meant the complete bankruptcy of the existence, independence and seriousness of the state in Turkey, the surrender of democracy to terror and of law to bullying.

In line with the expectation of its people, Turkey chose not to surrender to this bullying but rather to establish law, order, politics and democracy. Thus it protected itself. We are sure that if a truly similar development occurred in the US or in any EU country, they would perhaps do something even harsher to protect their own democracies.

But, evidently, they do not want in our country the domestic peace, law and democracy that they want in their own countries. By their very attitude today they themselves have shown what they do not want, and have dropped their masks.