Of course Kılıçdaroğlu should think about this too

The policy Turkey has recently put forward on Syria in general, and on Idlib in particular, is without parallel when compared with all the parties active in Syria and Idlib. In a Syria where everyone is engaged only in a struggle over shares, and where no party is willing to face the humanitarian problems born of this increasingly savage struggle that recognizes no rules, Turkey alone has given priority to the humanitarian dimension.

We have written before that Turkey has at present effectively assumed the most basic humanitarian responsibility not only for the 4 million Syrians who have taken refuge in our country but for at least 10 million Syrians, together with the 6 million in Idlib and the operation zones.

Turkey's interest in Idlib cannot be the occupation of a region that is, taken as a whole, made up of refugees. What material benefit could Turkey possibly have from establishing control there? But if Turkey does not step in, there is no obstacle left to stop the regime and its patrons, who are carrying out an ethnic genocide there step by step. Turkey's primary interest in Idlib is nothing other than preventing a genocide.

There may be those who find this neither profitable, logical nor rational within the mathematics of international relations, and who find Turkey's stance too romantic. Let them look at it that way, let them find it so. The account of the human cost of staying silent in the face of a genocide carried out before our eyes is kept separately. When those who commit this genocide, those who serve as its accomplices and those who stay silent about it each receive their share of the curse that will come of it, everyone will see that no accounting yields any profit.

Leaving aside accusing Turkey's Idlib and Syria policy of being irrational, the attitudes and statements of those within Turkish politics who view the matter entirely like the Assad shabbiha are recorded as a black stain in the name of humanity. The objections Kılıçdaroğlu has voiced so far on Syria, and especially the statements that echoed like cries for help on behalf of Assad after Turkey's intervention in Idlib, show that he has clearly taken Assad's side in this systematic genocide that has been carried out for 9 years.

Even in the recent events in Idlib alone, he has so far not uttered a single critical sentence about Assad, who has piled up one and a half million refugees on our border. Let alone criticizing Assad, he accused all the people of Idlib, women and children who fled Assad's criminal massacres, of being terrorists, and, like an official spokesman of Assad, did not shrink from describing the humane approach Turkey has displayed against this humanitarian catastrophe as support for terror.

Can the fact that the leader of Turkey's social democratic party makes this support for the Hitler of the Middle East ever more blatant, and voices it so easily from the platforms of democratic Turkey in the most brazen and aggressive terms, be simply dismissed as a paradox of democracy? What kind of Turkey dream lies in the heart of an opposition party that supports the ethnic and sectarian genocide Assad has inflicted on millions of people? God forbid, will this not be the model of rule it would apply once it gets a chance in Turkey? This is no joke, no delusion; it has become a truly serious security threat for Turkey, and moreover a real danger that finds its opportunity in the bosom of democracy. God forbid.

The ravings uttered in the Parliament against our President by another provocateur deputy of the party whose chairman is like this naturally caused great outrage. The provocateur got the answer he deserved, but this too was part of their insidious plans. The images of outrage in the Parliament reflected in the foreign media were meant to send a message about what kind of intolerance there is toward freedom of thought in Turkey. Of course, those who were taken in were taken in by this message. It was clear that Turkey's enemies, who play to world politics and do excellent work in that arena, would buy such a message at once.

Indeed, the Arab media, whose stance toward Turkey is known, presented these images for days as an example of democracy and freedom of expression in Turkey. This alone shows well enough what kind of tragicomedy we are in, and whose lie is in whose heart.

The media that attributed these images to a lack of democracy and freedom of expression in Turkey is the Egyptian media, that is, the media of the country where three thousand people were killed without batting an eye during a political demonstration, where opponents are summarily executed in their homes in broad daylight, where, let alone any criticism of the dictator, everyone with a chance of standing as a candidate in elections is immediately arrested, where more than a hundred thousand opponents are held in its dungeons and tens of thousands have been forced to flee abroad.

The media that attributed these images to a lack of democracy and freedom of expression in Turkey is the Saudi Arabian media, that is, the media of the country where hundreds of intellectuals and scholars are in prison not only for their words but even for their silence, where journalists are killed in consulates and cut up with saws, where people cannot criticize the crown prince even by implication.

And there is the media of the United Arab Emirates, that is, the media of the country that has a finger in every strife and sedition in the Islamic world, that tolerates no dissenting word at home, where opponents are either in the grave, in prison or in exile.

And then there are the Syrian and Iranian media. Let us not even get into them.

As the CHP bears witness to the media of these countries that there is no democracy in Turkey, it also shows well enough whom it is calling as its witness and what kind of dictatorship it nurtures in its heart. God protect us, may He not give it the chance.

Turkey has a lively parliament, so that images of such debate, even brawls, can emerge. In which of the countries in Kılıçdaroğlu's heart is there a parliament that would make these images possible?

Let not only the media of these countries think about this; let Kılıçdaroğlu think about it too, of course?