Who is reheating this pilaf, who is eating it?

No sooner had the news that markings had been placed on Alevi homes in Adıyaman hit the internet than it flared up. The real ground on which such news flared up, thank God and God willing, is not that today offers a suitable ground for such a provocation; on the contrary, it is that whatever the truth or occurrence of the matter may be, even its spreading has no rational justification. The comforting side of it is to see a social sensitivity, one that is not even Alevi, ready to condemn and react against even the possibility of such an incident.

The point on which those who know Adıyaman even slightly agree is that there is no ground whatsoever for such tension between Alevis and Sunnis there. On the contrary, compared with other places where both groups live together, Alevis and Sunnis in Adıyaman have a much more comfortable relationship, "to the point of exchanging brides with one another," as the familiar saying goes, as our newspaper's Ankara representative Abdülkadir Selvi mentioned in yesterday's column. In terms of Alevi-Sunni relations, Adıyaman is practically a model city.

This means that there is absolutely no ground for marking Alevis' homes in order to create a new Kahramanmaraş atmosphere. The incident makes one ask where on earth such a thing came from out of the blue. But to tell the truth, whoever such an act came from, even if it was done by children for a game, it is frightening from whichever angle you look at it.

It is frightening because this society's memory holds Kahramanmaraş, and Çorum, and Sivas. These days, what games were played on the country through those events is being laid bare in all its nakedness as bitter lessons of warning.

Just when we are expected to take heed, is it not something like mocking our intelligence to be invited to eat the same reheated rice pudding?

So who is putting this reheated pudding in front of us now?

The fact that the Interior Ministry's initial investigation concluded that the incident was the work of a few children and was not an act exclusively targeting Alevis' homes does not entirely eliminate the possibility of this incident turning into such a reheated pudding. Because the way some people pounced on the incident shows how scant our share of taking heed can be.

The way some newspapers reported the incident also reflects with what appetite the pudding is being eyed, for eating or for feeding to others. What kind of appetite, and for what, does it reflect to report this news with headlines such as "A Rehearsal for Maraş in Adıyaman?", "Not Maraş, Adıyaman", "What Is This a Preparation For", "Second Maraş Rehearsal", "Massacre Rehearsal in Semsur"?

The way a newspaper reports this incident does not surprise us, a newspaper that never asked about the background of the bombs thrown at its own building, never questioned it, and never explained to its readers what sort of game was being played with that bomb.

But frankly, no matter how much we think about it, we cannot comprehend how Hüseyin Aygün of Dersim went all the way to Adıyaman to try to inflame this incident, and especially how he failed to know where this effort fits into a possible Kahramanmaraş scenario.

Frankly, we have difficulty interpreting why the leader of an Alevi association, who with his own eyes saw all the evidence of an assassination planned against him in order to create an Alevi-Sunni conflict, still goes on behaving as those trying to kill him for that purpose want him to.

Instead of rejoicing, in the name of social peace and brotherhood, at the reaction that sprang into action immediately even at the possibility of such an incident, an ideological or political opportunity for profit can still be seen in producing, with great effort, a disaster scenario out of this incident.

As long as there are those who covet this profit, those with an appetite for eating this pudding, there will be others who keep reheating it and placing it before us.