FETÖ was supposed to fit into the US's spears-in-sacks

The Afrin operation has thrown all the calibrations of many international actors, first and foremost the US, into disarray. It is an operation that throws a wrench into a strategic plan that the US has in fact been carrying out for years.

The US cannot do much against this step of Turkey's that throws a wrench into its plans, because this strategic plan it has been carrying out for years was not transparent. Its basic elements were hidden from its own allies, were not openly stated, and, now that it has come to light, it itself sees that it has no valid argument with which to defend it or to bring it before people.

Let us say right away, without leaving it for later, that the parts of this strategy whose spear could never be fitted into the sack would have been concealed only by coup plotters in Turkey who would serve them had the 15 July coup attempt succeeded. From the moment that step remained incomplete, they display the disarray of being unable to fit the spear into any sack.

The only wretched argument American spokespersons can cling to against Turkey's Afrin operation is that "this operation distracts from focusing on the real job, namely the fight against DAEŞ," an argument at which the crows now laugh.

On the contrary, since it has turned out that everyone was sleeping on their feet while inviting focus on DAEŞ, the US's discourse of fighting DAEŞ has for quite some time retained no credibility. Both because of the consistent, honest, and effective performance Turkey has shown against DAEŞ together with Operation Euphrates Shield, and because the images of a dance between the US-PYD and DAEŞ that can no longer be hidden have become public knowledge.

The whole world watched on the BBC the images of DAEŞ militants being evacuated in Raqqa under the supervision and protection of US and PYD soldiers. This is not a situation that a US-led coalition focused on fighting DAEŞ can explain. This situation provides all the data needed on the background of the rhythmic game between the PYD and DAEŞ, possible only by agreement, that has long existed.

It is clear that the US is not at all pleased with Turkey's Afrin operation either, but the strange situation it has entered leaves it floundering in inconsistencies. Even if it brings the matter to the Kurdish question, it will face a deep gulf between its own official discourse and its actions on this. Because in a place where all parties have insisted from the start on Syria's territorial integrity, by arming the Kurds represented by the PYD it would be leading nothing other than the partition of Syria. The allies it has armed so heavily, who carry very heavy baggage of terrorism and ethnic cleansing, would have no role in Syria other than further fueling violence, disagreement, and conflict.

Moreover, Turkey explains both in Operation Olive Branch and in all previous processes that it has no problem with the Kurds. Salih MüslimZeytin Dalı Operasyonu started, he said that Afrin would be no less than Kobani. We have bad news for him and his European friends: the Kurds support Turkey's operation toward Afrin before anyone else. The Kurds are competing to enlist as volunteers in the TSK in order to take part in the Afrin operation.

Turkey's not wanting Syria to be partitioned does not show that it is against the Kurds. In the nature of things, one who has taken position under American flags and fights under that flag against the peoples of the region cannot be a Kurd.

In a dispute in which America and Turkey face each other so openly, no one other than those who have sold their identity, personality, morality, and honor would line up beside the occupier US. Those persons are not Kurds either.

At the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) meeting there was an Afrin debate in which I also took part. On this occasion, if not the European public, we had the opportunity to make important observations about how opinion is formed in PACE and what kinds of influences it is exposed to these days.

Here we all together witnessed with astonishment the open disinformation of the HDP representatives who took part on behalf of Turkey. They tried to dilute and cast suspicion even on Turkey's indisputable rightness regarding the Afrin operation, and above all to present the operation as if it were being carried out against the Kurds.

Unfortunately, the European deputies they convinced, who are in any case very prone to being convinced when it comes to anti-Turkey sentiment, when they took the floor also tried to make the situation grave for Europeans by saying that the Afrin operation would give rise to new waves of refugees. Truly, this is in fact the only subject Europe cares about: a wave of migration from Syria or another poor country knocking at its door. Otherwise human rights and Kurdish rights are entirely a story for them.

The Assembly's HDPKK-loving deputies do not hesitate to use this card against European public opinion either. It does not occur to any of them to have some shame, given that the first price of all their movements in Syria is already being paid only by Turkey.

Mardin Deputy Orhan Miroğlu, as a deputy who has received the votes of the Kurds, made a very effective speech against the HDP deputies' approach agitating PACE over the Afrin operation. He asked the crucial question: "Are we going to build peace and stability by giving weapons to terrorist organizations, by building armies out of these organizations?"

PACE Turkish delegation head Akif Çağatay Kılıç also explained in his speech that the US had given 5000 truckloads of weapons to the PKK terrorist organization that had merely changed its name to PYD when it crossed into Syria, and that the Afrin operation had become unavoidable for the security of Turkey, a European country. Therefore, from this perspective, the Afrin operation should have been regarded as a step taken to ensure Europe's border security.