How does the PKK tear children away from their mothers?

The mothers who for some time have been carrying out one of the most meaningful actions in the history of Diyarbakır to rescue their children from the hands of the PKK are exposing the great secret that everyone in the region knows and feels the pain of but that no one dares to utter. There is no act more revolutionary than bringing hidden, distorted, suppressed truths into daylight. No one other than or beyond mothers can have the power and the right to bring suppressed and distorted truths into daylight in this way. No ideological lie can soothe the pain of a mother's heart.

When the revolt started in Diyarbakır by Mother Hacire exposed the nakedness of the HDP, other mothers, fathers and siblings began to join this revolt. The dimensions of this mass and systematic child abuse, which the PKK has until now tried to justify as the Kurdish question, and which HDP politics has tried to adorn and legitimize as the inevitable sociological and political result of the discontent produced by the unresolved issue, come to light in the clearest way.

The mother who cried out, "To hell with your Kurdistan cause; if you want it so much, drive it by sending your own children, whom you refuse to compromise on having educated in private schools, to the mountain, not with our poor children!", has set out the rule in the clearest way. If there is a cause, that it cannot be carried out with children stolen from their mothers is now the most basic truth that everyone must know.

In essence, no one can convince us, despite everything, that the cause the PKK drives by tearing children away from their parents, kidnapping them to the mountain and placing weapons in their hands is a Kurdish cause. There is one more truth that was exposed earlier and more clearly than the one the mothers expose today, and that is that the organization is a subcontractor serving all the imperialist-Zionist-occupying powers as a Trojan horse in the region. Neither the Kurds nor the Kurds' religion, traditions, values, identity, children or mothers concern it. The only thing that concerns it is the commitments it has entered into with the occupying powers. The most essential material, fuel, instrument of those commitments is children who can hold weapons. It has to supply these children by whatever means, otherwise it would have no standing and no job-completion certificate with those who employ it.

The PKK can no longer deceive young people who have reached a certain age, who are past the age of childhood. It has no persuasive argument, not even an ideology, sufficient to deceive. The job is left to children.

The most useful instruments in the PKK's hands for deceiving them are the HDP organizations and municipalities. In particular, the youth, sports and culture centers and activities under the control of the municipalities work not for the raising of freer, more prosperous, healthier Kurdish generations with free minds and consciences, but only to whip them up so that they can go up to the mountain by the shortest route.

For the children who attend those centers and take part in those activities, going up to the mountain, holding weapons, pulling triggers, taking human lives needs no reasonable justification. Of course no legitimacy or rightfulness can be built on the actions of those at an age when they take killing people for a game.

Yet both the PKK and the HDP do not hesitate to build their rightfulness on this rotten ground. Years ago it was a propaganda line that the FETÖ had also paved the way for: "we are the last generation that can be talked to. If you cannot solve it with us, you will never solve it with those after us, because they are in no condition to listen to anything." Among those who said this shamelessly were all the grown-up politicians of the HDP, who are now playing democracy heroes, victims deprived of freedom of thought. The trump card on which their threat rested was the poor Kurdish children whom they themselves had deceived and incited and turned into mankurts with whom one cannot talk, raised so that their hands would hold first stones and then weapons.

Yet when, with the state's timely intervention and the narrowing of terror's field, they themselves withdrew from the scene and those children spent more time with their mothers and fathers, it was seen that all of them were, like all children, rose-like children.

The HDP can no longer deceive and send to the PKK the children it needs as it did before and as much as before. The plans of the subcontractor terror are going awry, it cannot keep its word. Nevertheless, those to whom it gave its word do not withhold the necessary contribution at this tight time, by ignoring and not hearing the crimes of mass and systematic child abuse it is openly committing.

This also sufficiently explains why the artists, politicians and NGOs from whom we expect to hear a voice, from whom we wish "just once a reaction", do not react.

Meanwhile, let us repeat, since the occasion arises, that besides the direct or indirect financing of the organization, the most important contribution of the HDP municipalities is to gain recruits for the mountain. Besides providing the encouraging cultural, sporting, artistic-social environments mentioned above, there is also another way that everyone knows but hardly speaks of:

In recruitment in HDP municipalities or their affiliated bodies, a criterion such as "having paid a price" for the cause the organization drives is also applied. By employing in the municipality a close relative of young people who have joined the organization in some way, they also put into effect a reward-compensation mechanism of their own. Of course, how "fairly" (!) they apply this according to their own internal balances often leads to serious quarrels at the grassroots.

But it is also known that by this way they have practically institutionalized a way of financing the human resources of terror with taxes collected from TC citizens. As long as the HDP municipalities have neither the power nor the courage to put distance between themselves and the PKK in the current situation, this system is bound to keep working this way.

The HDP municipalities are at the center of the mechanism that steals children from their mothers and exploits them as fuel for the fire of hatred and violence that they have kindled. The solidarity that the CHP and the Istanbul Metropolitan Mayor display with them, knowing this, does not make them democracy heroes; it only makes them accomplices of this disgusting child-abusing terror.