Can there be initiative in these "Children of Fire"?

Exactly six years ago we were discussing the 6-8 October events as one of the greatest betrayals the HDP inflicted first on its own people, the Kurdish people, and of course on all of Turkey. Six years later we have been subjected to another attack that raises the bar in betrayal, savagery and immorality. It has been understood that the fires that broke out in Hatay and continue at many points, burning forests to ashes together with the living things within them, spreading across three districts and burning homes, pets and living beings, were started by the sabotage of PKK terrorists.

Some time ago it was being said that the organization had established a new structure. The name of the structure is in itself enough to reveal the horizon, the intent and the indifference to humanity of the organization's entire struggle: Children of Fire.

A horizon of liberation that turns Kurdish children into porters carrying fuel for their own hell.

Burning forests and burning the homes of civilians is a crime against humanity even in wars. Whatever struggle one is engaged in, whatever cause one is pursuing, it is a vile crime without any justification, any legitimacy. After all, the tree is the common domain of all humanity, a value that everyone benefits from through its shade, its oxygen, its bounty, that does not belong to man, that has been allotted to man by God's mercy.

In fact, the enemy who targets the tree burns in the end through his own stupidity. What makes one cut the branch one is sitting on is, to put it mildly, stupidity. But here, added to this stupidity, there is treachery, baseness. A spite, a rancor that does not care even if the thing that will harm its adversary will kill itself.

Though when it comes to the PKK, we have so far seen nothing beyond this spite, this rancor and this stupidity. Within the action strategies determined by all these feelings, the PKK has so far committed tons of crimes under the heading of terror. Conscripting women and children and subjecting them to abuse, turning them into sexual commodities for the organization's lecherous veterans in the mountains and plains, executing arbitrarily more of its own militants than have been killed in clashes with the state...

How unfortunate it is that, for years, under the smoke of the fire of terror lit by such an organization, the Kurdish issue, and as if that were not enough, democracy and freedoms, are being discussed.

The credits that the USA and the EU extend, directly or indirectly, under the headings of the HDP or the Kurdish issue, democracy and human rights, to this organization that is already on their terror lists do nothing in the end but support all these crimes.

The USA does even more, trying to produce heroes of liberation from DAESH out of these criminals. By what baptism could a terrorist organization that burns forests, burns homes, abuses children and conscripts children be turned into a hero of liberation?

Here in Hatay we see it in all its horror, we live it. As if doing something grand, as if announcing its theft while presenting its bravery, as if declaring to the world its own just deserts, under the title "initiative of the children of fire" it has displayed the bar of savagery and terror to the whole world.

Is there any initiative left in the children of fire, who have been stripped of their personalities, their wills, their minds like a log, to burn in the hells they created?

Before the PKK's "hellfire initiative" claimed the incident, the HDP's social media account titled "ecology" had made a brazen statement: "Hatay has been burning for two days and it is not even news. The burning areas are areas licensed for mining. Thousands of forest creatures and trees are being destroyed to hand the forests over to capital. The people's bread, the future of the youth is being burned." Leaving aside that even while engaging in enmity toward capital it is unaware that it has itself turned into the capital of imperialist circles against Turkey. And leaving aside that the crimes it commits against the values it deceitfully has on its tongue, such as "forest creatures, trees, the people's labor, the future of the youth," are its very mode of existence...

Of course, it is vain to expect that, after the PKK claimed it, it would curse the PKK by name. Still, with some courage, ignoring and turning a deaf ear to the PKK's claiming of the incident, and even without mentioning the name of the PKK, we may see the statements of some HDP deputies "cursing those responsible for the forest fires" as a big step for them.

When the HDP Ecology account, while relaying this statement, again emphasized that there was a mining application in the burning forest regions, we say "enough," and move on. If there is a mine, there are in any case a thousand and one procedures to follow for its allocation without harming the forest. Since they have never had any intention of adding any value to the country or doing any useful work, that they speak without knowing, or, even if they know, muddy minds by saying "who died from a lie," is their original character.

It is vain to expect a proportionate condemnation, a sensitivity, from the Turkish left and CHP circles, so very sensitive to green and the environment, who in the Gezi Park events tried to turn all of Turkey into hell for the sake of a tree. The calculations of the politics they have entered may close the way to such romantic rhetoric, but these children of fire show their faces in the dark with this fire they have lit.