The problem is this: "Terror against Turkey is slipping away!"

Türkiye has recently been conducting its fight against terrorism with great success, and instead of delighting our European friends who ostensibly regard terrorism as a crime against humanity, this plunges them into great sorrow. It is a strange paradox, and encountering this situation at every stage leaves us greatly bewildered.

Looked at closely, Türkiye is not achieving success in its fight against terrorism by compromising on democracy. Moreover, while fighting terrorism, it is also acting with a self-confidence that is leaving the Kurdish question increasingly in the past, and while reinforcing domestic peace.

For years we were conditioned by a mentality that presented us with terrorism and the Kurdish question in one and the same fait accompli package. When the Kurdish question was resolved, terrorism would end too. All the necessary serious steps regarding the Kurdish question have been taken. Assimilation was ended. Kurdish identity was recognized by the state, and it was pronounced, word for word, that the Kurds are first-class citizens of this country. Not only is there no ban left on Kurdish, but TRT, with the full support of the state, has launched and continues a broadcasting policy that practically serves Kurdish culture, with the world's most authentic, most genuine Kurdish. The Kurds, for that matter, benefit from every service and right that any citizen of the Republic of Türkiye can benefit from, with no one lacking anything compared to anyone else.

The Kurds can exist equally with everyone in every part of the country, both geographically and socially. For that reason, Türkiye's Kurdish question is not today a heavier or more serious problem than Iran's Kurdish question, as is supposed. Even so, if the problem that makes the Kurdish question its pretext, that imposes itself in the same package as the Kurdish question, does not end, it has been officially proven that the problem is another problem.

In the days when the Kurdish question was made a pretext for terrorism, there was a discourse that the leading figures of the HDP or the PKK tried to impose on us: "We," they said, "are the last generation with which the Turks can talk and resolve the problem; if you have resolved it with us, you have resolved it, otherwise such a generation is coming that it will not even be possible for you to establish dialogue with them."

Without regard to the insolent threat within these words, in the name of so-called democracy and human rights, some people were even recommending surrender at the station to which the terrorists wanted to force us. Yet that old generation, with these words, was in fact only slyly inciting the unruly, radical child-and-youth generation on the streets. It never invited them to dialogue, to humanity, to peace, nor advised them to restraint. From the unruliness, vandalism and terrorism of those youths who would not listen, they were cunningly and slyly gathering power for themselves.

For the sake of this lust for power, those old-school politicians sent so many children, women and men to death at very young ages. Although serious distances had been covered regarding the reality of the problem they spoke of, they still insisted on claiming the existence of a problem that would create a sphere of power for themselves.

In fact, Türkiye has ended the Kurdish question in a way that can serve as a model for all the countries in the region. In two ways.

One, important distances are being covered on the remaining terrorism problem. PKK terrorism, which used to be able to inflate the problem beyond what it was as the most effective means of propaganda... Today terrorism in Türkiye no longer inflates the problem; thanks especially to the effective struggle conducted against it, it has quite the opposite effect.

Last week we drew attention to the real dramas caused by the terrorists, in contrast to the half-baked dramas that Sezgin Tanrıkulu, the CHP's chairman and deputy, who burns with concern for the terrorists killed by the armed UAVs (SİHAs), has been trying to produce. The terrorists who knocked on the door of the house of 65-year-old M. Salih Aslan, former headman of Kemerli village, one of the central villages of Siirt, took him fifty meters away from his house and executed him in front of his son. Normally such acts were creating a serious propaganda effect in the region, making the terrorist organization's power felt there. As of yesterday, a statement from the Siirt Governorship reported that a group of 7 people operating in the same region had been neutralized. It is assessed that among these 7 people were the murderers of M. Salih Aslan, of the AK Parti. Those who burn with concern over the SİHAs know very well what they have lost. The terror card against Türkiye is slipping away. The PKK, a useful tool, is slipping away from under their hands. If they should not cry, who should?

Second, of course, by taking real steps that will make the Kurds feel that Türkiye is truly their own country, their own state... By truly resolving the Kurdish question and leaving no room for doubt among the Kurds that they are first-class citizens of this country..

Today the Kurds of Türkiye know that the Kurds already have a state, and it is the Republic of Türkiye.

Unfortunately, the regimes in Iraq and Syria did not give the Kurds the same feeling. The regimes established after the US intervention and under US supervision, too, instead of providing the conditions in which the Kurds could feel themselves an equal and founding element in this country, under US guidance supported more the processes that would make their separation from their own country inevitable. The Kurds were cut off from Baghdad in Saddam's time too, and in the process after the US occupation, instead of being brought closer to Baghdad, they were pushed even further away. In Syria too, the Kurds, who in the past did not even have an identity, are today being turned into actors of ethnic cleansing with the favoritism of the US.

What role those who, while themselves constantly pursuing unification, deem separation, division and secession fit for us have assigned to the Kurds in this process is very clear.