Despite the Arab League, Turkey's greatest support is from the Arabs

Operation Peace Spring, launched by Turkey, is progressing successfully with God's help. Just as in the Euphrates Shield and Olive Branch operations, and in the words of our esteemed President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the targets are approached with a jeweler's precision so as not to harm civilians.

One of the most important results of the operation is that it has made the lines clear once again. It is bringing to light who is on the side of terror and who is not, who is up to what mischief in the region under the pretext of fighting terror, what kind of agenda each has in Syria, who is friend to whom and who is enemy to whom. The reactions displayed also lay bare all the stalling carried out by the parties in the name of a solution in Syria until now.

Meanwhile, in response to the shameful reactions voiced in the name of the Arab League (AB), an uncontrolled anti-Arab sentiment was seen suddenly flaring up both on social media and in society. Yet regarding whom those speaking in the name of AB represent, Operation Peace Spring in fact performs the function of dropping the masks and exposing, above all, those who have betrayed the Arabs.

That AB does not represent the Arab peoples at all, and that the real problems of the Arabs never had a place on its agenda, was always a much-discussed matter. For years they have taken up no issue relating to the real problems the Arabs live through, and have undertaken no activity that soothes the heart on any of their problems. Today the great majority of the waves of migration arising from wars, coups and domestic despotism come from Arab countries, but AB takes not the slightest step on this. Although they own most of the world's underground riches, the Arab peoples live in hunger and misery. The unjust distribution of resources, excessive waste and corruption, and dependence on the outside despite excessive wealth are the fundamental problems of the AB countries. These contradictions alienate the peoples of the AB countries from their rulers.

On top of these contradictions from which everyone already suffers, the most meaningful and most massive reaction to this shameful objection by the AB countries against Turkey, which has taken a real step in the name of protecting the Arabs and Kurds of the region, comes once again from the Arab peoples.

On social media, against the propaganda of the well-known troll army of the leading countries of AB, there is so far an unprecedented, spontaneously developed Arab support in favor of Turkey. The overwhelming majority of the Arab peoples regard Turkey's operation as entirely justified, congratulate it, and condemn their own leaders for opposing the operation. Personally, I have never seen such intense support for Turkey on social media until now. Arabs have not let the hashtag #ArapBirligiBeniTemsilEtmiyor drop from the agenda for days within the framework of support for Turkey.

Prominent Arab members of parliament, opinion leaders, journalists, academics and people from every segment express their support for Turkey with very meaningful posts and ideas from their social media accounts, while condemning the rulers of their own countries for, far from staying behind Turkey in standing up for the Arabs, trying to obstruct it. It is fair to say that a divergence on this scale has never been experienced before. Peace Spring is beginning to take a form that questions the legitimacy of Arab leaders in the eyes of their own peoples. Because Turkey is doing something so accurate, so just, that the collective conscience of the Arab world is receiving it with great enthusiasm, with a good reception and with very sincere prayers.

108 thinkers, diplomats and academics, all very influential and representing the civil society of the Islamic and Arab world, from the Forum for Thought and Strategic Studies, which was formed on the initiative of Arab-Muslim thinkers, announced with a statement that they support Operation Peace Spring and made a call for support for the operation addressed to the United Nations (BM).

Therefore it is extremely wrong for some to attribute AB's stance to Arabness. This union has no relationship whatsoever with the Arabs. The relationship of Arab rulers with their own peoples is like the relationship of the PKK with the Kurdish people. The PKK finds its place in a partnership of regimes imposed on their peoples from outside. Arab leaders who do not represent their own peoples feel closer to the PKK as a fascistic actor to be imposed on the Kurdish people even though it does not represent them, just as they do not. If there are any who find it hard to understand these Arab leaders' sympathy for the PKK/PYD, which normally also represents a strong hatred of Arabs within its ideological discourse, let them look from here. Their partnership lies far deeper than supposed.

Those who try to present the operation as being against the Kurds or against the Arabs are proceeding from the same point. Yet both Arabs and Kurds know that this operation is being carried out precisely to end an occupation that has turned into a fait accompli in the region and to ensure that the Arab, Kurdish, Turkish, Alevi and Sunni, Muslim and Christian peoples continue to live together in peace and tranquility within a "single country".

And precisely for that reason the greatest support for the operation comes from the Arabs and Kurds who are conscious of this.