The PKK's helpless strategies against politics

The PKK, the Turkish extension of the PYD that the US supports, arms and allies with in order to fight ISIS terror (or was it the reverse? Was the PYD the PKK's extension in Syria? Or does it matter?), tried to kill Mehmet Kocabey, the district governor of Baykan in Siirt, with a mined ambush it laid on the road.

This is one of the PKK's routine forms of action, and so far such ambushes have cost the lives of many soldiers and civilians. Thank God, this time the district governor escaped unharmed from the treacherously laid ambush. A few weeks ago, again in Baykan, another treacherous trap was foiled when the explosive device placed on the car of our friend Cahit Türköz, a member of the AK Parti Provincial General Assembly, was noticed at the last moment and by chance. Before the holiday as well, the Baykan District Chairman Nimetullah Gönül had survived an attack wounded.

Last week as well, another striking scene emerged of how PKK militants are trying to take politics hostage in the region with new assassination actions against AK Parti officials. First, the AK Parti's Diyarbakır Lice district deputy chairman Orhan Mercan was martyred in an ambush set in front of his home. A day later, PKK terrorists again came to the home of Aydın Ahi, deputy chairman of the Özalp district in Van, forced him out at gunpoint, put him in a vehicle, took him to another neighborhood and martyred him by strafing him with long-barreled weapons.

Frankly, so far the most important basis of the style of politics of the PKK and its affiliated political organizations is nothing but this bullying. The PKK tries to build a world in which there is no politics for those who do not pledge allegiance to it and no possibility of trade and investment for those who do not pay its tribute. The secret of the influence it has established over the region's politics for years is revealed a little more by these attacks. With the tutelage it has been trying to establish over the Kurds in the region for years, it has carried out an extraordinary effort to leave room for no one but itself. The most important leg of this effort is bullying and terror.

Terror is the most effective and best-known way the PKK has always resorted to in order to establish its hegemony. But its recent terror against politicians is somewhat different from before. In the past it resorted to such attacks to expand its control of territory. Recently it resorts to them to desperately protect the area of hegemony that is slipping away from it more and more, to make last strikes while withdrawing in places.

The operations carried out recently are inflicting on the PKK routs it has not seen in its history. In the mountains, camps and shelters it trusts most, it is losing the high-level militants it trusts most. At the time two years ago, when it reached the peak of its insolent self-confidence, the terrorist organization was speaking in a very different tone.

Where that self-confidence rested actually came out after some time. Unfortunately, even within the counter-terrorism units that would move against them there were elements, members of FETÖ, who cooperated with them and acted together with them in enmity toward Turkey. With those elements, Turkey was exposed for years to the illusion that it was fighting terror. It turns out that in order to wage a truly effective fight against terror, Turkey first had to settle accounts with that treason within itself and cleanse those elements of treason.

The effect of this cleansing having been carried out recently can be seen very clearly. Thanks to this, terror perhaps for the first time in its history in Turkey faces a truly effective struggle. It is being routed in the face of this struggle, openly losing all its areas. Most importantly, it is losing the support of the people of the region. It is losing its source of recruits. For quite some time, recruitment to the mountain has fallen to zero. The organization can no longer attract recruits to the mountain.

Unfortunately, the PKK terrorist organization interpreted the solution process that the state had launched with all its good will and humanitarian values in order to disarm the terrorists, bring them down from the mountain and integrate them into normal life as the state's weakness and a flag of surrender, and, contrary to expectations, regarded it as an opportunity to accumulate and invest more in terror.

Because of this vacuum it recruited, almost in this period, the most members in its history. Teachers sympathetic to the organization were handing over their students, whom they took on picnics, as an entire class to the recruits waiting there for them. From there those students took the road to the mountain. Most of them were children of middle school and high school age, under 18. Let us record here once again that the terrorist organization, which has become an ally of the US, works also as such a criminal network against children.

An environment had emerged in which joining the organization no longer required any price, in which the organization promised its participants, together with their families, a guaranteed life. When this environment was exited, FETÖ elements were still in their posts, and in the first stages of the new period of the fight against terror significant fugitives were again being identified.

Yet after 15 July, the cleansing against treason carried out in the military, police, judiciary and national education destroyed all of terror's logistics. The rest is up to the skill of the security forces, which they have recently been showing heroically, in a way that makes their enemies burst and gives confidence to their friends.

The PKK is taking refuge in desperate strategies to retake the positions it has lost, with haste, panic and ambition. It is lying in ambush again, trying to terrorize, threatening, killing.

It is over now.

Turkey is about to end the terror problem once and for all (ila-nihaye).

The PKK, on whom some people lean their backs, and even those on whom the PKK itself leans its back, will no longer be able to save it.