Those who say, in reference to the referendum, “It does not present any threat to Turkey,” are carrying out a new public perception operation with lies, similar to the way they tricked our people in Kobani. Just as they distracted the public while a terror corridor was being formed in northern Syria, and Turkey was being surrounded, they are again trying to distract the public through lies, confuse the political mind, break the national reflex and weaken the state’s ground.
All of these are openly and clearly managed by the bosses of the multinational attack that took place on July 15, 2016, to prepare for a new intervention wave.
While it has become clear that the new multinational intervention will be coming from the south, northern Iraq and northern Syria, while “new Sevres” plans are going around from table to table, “country downsizing” alliances can longer be kept a secret, a common map is being drawn through Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) President Masoud Barzani and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), while a “foreign garrison” is being formed at the center of our region for the first time since Israel, foreign soldiers are settling in at the zero point of our border, while it is known that the next step after this will be the “Turkey front,” while a major partition and pillaging is taking place in our region, those who tell us to “be quiet,” are planning a very big game.
We are the inheritors of a political tradition with a geography perception much beyond ethnic issues. We come from a political tradition that knows how World War I, the Gaza wars, the Suez War, Kut al-Amara, how Jerusalem fell, how the “British Middle East” projects were applied, the kind of maps on the tables and how skillfully they were drawn, who betrayed and how.
We have no lack of experience, no lack of knowledge, no lack of horizon, no ignorance in reading the region and the world.
If we don’t do something today, immediately, now, despite all the mental operations, betrayals and obstacles, we need to understand that we will miss out on a history, that it will never come again, that they are going to want to have Turkey debated in the near future the way we debated Iraq.
This is the kind of mindset, identity, thought with which political history has been made since the Seljuks. The Ottomans spent centuries on this thought and insight. This is the reflex underlying the Anatolian resistance, the Republic of Turkey. Now, after the Anatolian resistance, history is this time at the verge of a new rise or destruction. Turkey will either grow or shrink.
We are facing a similar choice, a similar decision today. We existed in this region’s millennium-old history because we always made these critical decisions at the right time. If we want to continue in the same way, we need to continue straight forward, toward the flow of history and make decisions even if it be painful. Therefore, we cannot perceive such a great matter based solely on Barzani, his plans and the emotional plans of certain circles in Turkey.
The political stance and perspective of great leaders, Alparslan, Kılıçarslan, Mehmet the Conqueror at historical breaking points, their reading of the geography and the future could be a guide for us.
Yes, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is speaking of this climate, this depth: He explains how the game played through northern Iraq threatens and can threaten Turkey. He says that the matter is not Barzani alone, that Turkey is under siege through Iraq and Syria, that an invasion wave is threatening every country including Turkey. He says, “We are going to spoil this game, we must spoil it.”
Based on the Seljuk-Ottoman-Turkish Republic political tradition, based on that deep political mind, he is trying to say something to Turkey and the world. He is giving signs based on the political mind and strong decisions made big turns in history.
He is showing that the Kurdish issue, the scenario presented as Barzani’s dream is actually huge, that it is a regional design that includes Turkey, that new maps are laid on the table after World War I, that he understands, senses that it has come to the stage of “stopping Turkey.”
As soon as Erdoğan speaks, someone immediately activates the influence groups inside Turkey. A great operation is being launched to weaken this discourse, to hide the threat, to confuse the minds of our people and blind them.
Everyone is saying something different. It is as though they are all competing to negate Erdoğan’s words. Stupidity is being inculcated under the name of level-headedness. They are taking with wise words, the “amazing suggestions” given to them in the name of showing Turkey the right way.
Some are thinking about their personal interests, while others are thinking about the interests of Europe and their bosses beyond the Atlantic. Some are in the game with ethnic reflexes, ethnic reflexes guised under “Islamist” and ”conservative” identities.
The “tasked” groups in politics, media, the business world, nongovernmental organizations, within the state and civil services, are trying to negate Turkey’s national reflex, its historical turn in complete coordination and harmony.
The internal invaders are joining with the threat from the south and are trying to continue the multinational scenario carried out through Barzani and the PKK-affiliated Syrian Democratic Union Party (PYD) and ensure the continuity of the chain of interventions.
We have seen this game before. We have seen the danger. We have seen the next step. We have seen the methods of those trying to blind us. Hence, this is a defense of Turkey. It is the effort to build a national awareness. It is the effort to draw attention to the “internal invasion” and “internal threats.”
It is a warning against the ethnic nationalism presented in the Islamic camouflage from turning into a weapon for imperial plans, a warning against multinational invasion plans. This is why we are discussing Turkey, not northern Iraq, not Iraq’s integrity alone. We are looking at the next step and determining a stance accordingly.
Nobody can keep us out of this debate.
Nobody can turn us from this path.
