Selectivity in human rights and the PKK's observance of "Human Rights Day"

At the end of December 10, World Human Rights Day, the terrorist organization PKK, with the bombs it detonated in the middle of Istanbul at the hours when people are most concentrated, took away the right to life of 38 people, the right to healthy life of some 150 people, and the right to peace of millions of people.

With its method of action, approaching stealthily with a view to the moment when people are most defenseless, most unprepared and feel most secure, and targeting the lives of the greatest possible number of people, this attack contains all the filth of terror in its dimension of a crime against humanity.

With this action the PKK has no aim of drawing attention to a right that has been or is being violated in Turkey. It cannot have a goal of achieving any gain for the Kurds it claims to represent either. On the contrary, with this and similar acts it widens the distance between itself and the Kurds more with each passing day.

In fact this process began as far back as the days of the solution process, and with each passing day the PKK has shown that it is an organization independent of the Kurdish question, subject to its own agenda or its own order list.

Yet it does not seem to have given up its demand for tutelage over the Kurds.

Even if the Kurds spit in its face and throw it out the door, it comes in through the window and tries to continue its feudal lordship over the Kurds as if it were a right.

That the PKK committed such a bloody, vile act on Human Rights Day shows that it has nothing to do with humanity either. Indeed, as an organization that commands enormous budgets and means thanks to some facilities granted to it, it also comes under the scrutiny of international human rights organizations.

That it thereby gains a kind of recognition is a further oddity of the matter, and one that exposes its masters.

The truth is that, both because of the support it receives from EU countries and because of the open support the US gives to its Syrian extension, the PYD, we must say that the US too owes the Turkish people an explanation, an account, for the PKK's actions in Turkey.

The same explanation and account is owed by those elements in the European Parliament that host the PKK and its Syrian extensions.

Before this terrorist organization was supported by the US in Syria, on the grounds that it was fighting another terrorist organization, DEAŞ, it did not have the capacity to carry out actions on this scale in Turkey. Unfortunately, the PKK, which is losing popular support day by day in the course of Turkey's struggle against terror and whose structures in the mountains and in the cities have been broken up, has most probably been equipped with a technique capable of carrying out actions on this scale, with the technical know-how and logistics given to it in Syria.

To carry out such actions it is no longer even necessary to have popular support. It is possible to carry out such an attack with a suicide attacker equipped with a certain technical infrastructure and intelligence.

We no longer even wonder who supplied this suicide attacker with this technique and intelligence he needed.

European countries have adopted human rights as a tool of pressure and management over Turkey. Indeed, this is all they understand by human rights.

For them human rights is merely a tool they can use when they want to interfere in the internal affairs of certain countries.

Indeed, if there were a serious sensitivity to every kind of human rights all over the world and in their own countries, we would simply respect it. In that case we would also receive with respect the sensitivity, the warnings and the criticisms they display toward the human rights violations they claim also exist in Turkey. Yet on July 15, without offering condolences even for the 250 people massacred by a parallel state that had set out to violate the human rights of 79 million, without extending congratulations for having repelled this coup with an epic struggle and heroically, and without seeing the heroism shown in the defense of democracy by the people of a country whose parliament had been bombed,

EU officials remembered the "human rights" of the coup plotters from the very first minute. From where they were, they quickly completed their reports on detention conditions and put them into circulation.

This selectivity on human rights reveals Europe's ill will toward Turkey. The published human rights reports are extremely insensitive toward the people who were truly victimized and whose rights were violated because they were subjected to the coup, but extremely sensitive toward those who made the coup and are before the judiciary because of it.

The same selectivity of sensitivity unfortunately operates on the PKK as well. They do not even see the people the PKK has victimized and whose rights it has violated.

Instead of seeing what hardship the trenches they dug condemned the entire population of cities to, and how many innocent people they ruthlessly took the lives of in the meantime, they continue to adopt dealing with the government that fights those terrorists as if it were a custom of the human rights struggle.

In recent years, most of all during the solution process, the PKK abducted thousands of children under the age of 18 into its mountain cadres and caused most of them to perish in the mountains, in clashes.

This alone would be enough, indeed more than enough, for a human rights discourse that is consistent with itself and with its own claim to move the world. But human rights organizations prefer to act as spokesmen for this treacherous organization, to regard those who do its propaganda and actually work with it as journalists and listen to them, and to accept their rights as rights and fight for them.

There is of course a reason for this selectivity. For them the PKK is an organization with which they are detaching the Kurds from Islam and recruiting them for a new crusade. They will of course spare the PKK none of the entire corpus they have on human rights.