Has the awareness dawned on you yet of the scenario to school Turkey and drag it into a war where it can’t engage based on its own rules of engagement? In the event of Turkey resisting such attempts, the scenario includes trying to bring it to its knees via urban terror.

We were faced with all sorts of ugliness, barbarianism and evil during the last three days in almost all of Turkey’s cities, particularly those located in the eastern and southeastern parts of the country.

People were dragged out of their vehicles and killed. Homes were torched with their occupants inside. People were shot because “they must be ISIL members since they have beards”…

Offices were ransacked and looted. Public buildings and public transport vehicles were torched. Schools, Quran courses and religious vocational schools (imam hatip) were targeted. The street thugs, upon the instructions of certain people, directed their terror at conservatives.

We have people whose heads were smashed in with rocks. We saw photographs that were not that different from the images of execution and beheading carried out by ISIL.

The perpetrators need to be held accountable.

For three days, we witnessed in Turkey the shame-inducing scenes we have been observing for years now across our border. This uncontrolled violence brought out the ugliness and the worst side of the human race.  

Violence was nurtured and triggered by those who adopted a rage-fuelled and heroic tone. Politicians made calls to “kill,” “attack,” and “torch.” The selfless efforts of this country toward the reconciliation process, its search for solutions and aid efforts were ignored.

Those who released this hatred onto the streets are guilty. They have to be held accountable for this. Those that nurtured this ugliness should never be forgotten and neither should they be forgiven. Those that transferred these identity-based wars raging in Syria and Iraq to this country are the nation’s enemies.

The role of those who played a part in these murders should never be covered up. They include administrators and politicians of the HDP (Peoples’ Democratic Party), politicians from the CHP (Republican People’s Party) and those criminals operating in the guise of journalists. The state should hold all these people to account.

Being a state does not mean always being tolerant. Being a state means taking precautions to stop those that threaten the material and physical security of people and prosecuting the guilty parties. It is a requirement of sovereignty and state power. Apart from being tolerant, those that attack the country and nation should be prosecuted and punished. 

Selahattin Demirtaş, along with his team, held a press conference yesterday. The image of him covered in sweat was an indicator of his mental state. He acted as if he bore no responsibility for all that has happened. As if all these things happened without their knowledge and even occurred regardless of their role. A normal person would have reflected on what they said a day and two days previously. A normal person would have questioned how every statement they made and every word they uttered resulted in bloodshed and terror.

Weren’t you aware that such things could occur when you were making calls for people to take to the streets? Couldn’t you have foreseen how the people you sent out on the streets were nurtured on violence? Following your statements, those speaking after you made calls of “kill,” “raid,” and “torch.” At the very least, why didn’t you intervene when you noticed such calls being made?

Where were you, when following your calls and those of your friends, when some entities on social media made calls to “raid this association” and “kill them wherever you spot them”? Why did you keep quiet? Why didn’t you silence them?

You cannot extricate yourself from this by calling these acts provocations. You are responsible for all these deaths, because of all the calls through which you issued, your thoughtless stances, which affected these incidents. 

While watching Demirtaş and his friends during their press conference I thought to myself “all of this sweating is probably because he received a rebuke from Abdullah Öcalan.” I hope that is not the reason. I hope that it has somehow been understood that a mistake was made. I hope that he is suffering from pangs of conscience, even if it is just a little bit. 

The issue isn’t just Demirtaş. The HDP, as a whole, suffered a mental block and shortsightedness, and proceeded without regard for its political identity. It abandoned the reconciliation process and prudence, and became the same as those wreaking havoc on the streets. This is a major blunder. It is the lack of political maturity and morals. It is the final stage of a political downfall. The cadres of the HDP, organizations associated with it and the circles they direct as a result, have committed a crime against this country.  

They tried to force certain things on Turkey using Kobane. They tried to force Turkey into making a mistake by attempting to push it into a corner. “They” does not imply the PKK, but those that are making their calculations based on events in Syria. Internalizing the problems in Syria and providing assistance there is one thing, but it is an entirely different thing to utilize events in Kobane to punish Turkey and declare war against the nation. We are just realizing that all these actions have nothing to do with rescuing Kobane. We realize that the target is Turkey and the intention is to drag Turkey into the Iraq/Syria issue in an uncoordinated manner.

ISIL is a Saudi Arabia- Iran issue. ISIL is an organization financed and directed by countries in the Gulf to cut off Iran’s access to the Mediterranean. Think a little about who and what lies behind targeting Turkey – which is trying to establish a shared future with the Kurds -- via the reconciliation process, while no mention is even made of those two countries.   

Let me state it clearly. Pay heed to those that are trying to push ISIL toward Kobane, Erbil and the Kurdish regions. They have chosen the Kurds to be the victims of this conflict. They strike both at Kobane and simultaneously hit Turkey domestically for refusing to take sides. Actually recent events have made both Turkey and the Kurds victims of the conflict between these two fronts. Can’t you even notice that much?

Iran, while trying to use the Kurds to stop ISIL on the one hand, is trying to use Turkey to liquidate the Kurdish organization on the other. It is attempting to play the “Kurdish card” to provoke Turkey into entering the fray against ISIL. It wants to break the ISIL-Saudi resistance by using Turkey. It probably made sound calculations that attacks on the Kurdish regions would also cause unrest in Turkey. This is also exactly what happened. Look carefully at who the masterminds behind the vandals that took to the streets were, and who they used to achieve their goals.   

Turkey will never thoughtlessly dive into crises born out of the conflict on the Iran-Saudi Arabia front. It will not act like an organization, but will display the reflexes of a state. That is precisely how Turkey is responding at the moment. Turkey’s future and that of the Kurds lie together. This unity is being sabotaged by these two fronts. Unfortunately, Kurdish politicians were neither able to realize this nor comprehend this situation.

Because Turkey resisted and was not drawn into this game, the threat of expanding the Syrian conflict to Turkey is being issued. It is a serious threat. That is why they desire the intensification of the PKK-(Turkish) Hizbullah clashes. The reasoning behind urging the perpetrators of this wave of urban terror to specifically target those linked to Hizbullah is to provoke them. Turkey is aware of this and hence maintains its calm and prudent attitude. This is in no way a sign of weakness. It is sad to see that Kurdish politicians are not aware of this.

The claim that “Turkey supports ISIL” was launched and is being widely used by the masterminds of this urban terror campaign. It looks like they succeeded and certain sections have commenced activities based on this claim.   

Turkey does not want a neighbor like ISIL across its border. However, it is well aware that this does not pose a terror threat in a narrow sense. Turkey proposes a wider, more comprehensive and durable solution, but this thesis is not being accepted by the coalition forces and regional countries. We know that those opposed to the establishment of safe zones actually don’t want any solution in this region. They want the continuation of crises and clashes. That is because they conduct business out of chaos. They don’t care about the fall of Kobane, the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people, and the millions that have lost their homes.

Those that voted “no” to the parliamentary motion – that allows Turkish troops to enter Syria – cannot even produce a single sentence offering a solution. Kılıçdaroğlu’s wish for a “motion for Kobane” is the latest example of ignorance.

Do not forget that it is both the Kurds and Turkey whom they want to make sacrificial lambs of, in this ISIL-based scenario. If you have any sense and are capable of doing something, go and settle accounts with them. Say something to Iran, Saudi Arabia, Germany and those countries that are nurturing chaos. But you won’t be able to do that…

Turkey will not fight Arabs for Iran. It won’t fight Iran for the Arabs either. Turkey is the only country in the region that is displaying a balanced stance against these ethnic- and sectarian-inspired wars.

But I know you won’t get it…