Attempts are being made to turn the encirclement of Kobane (Ayn Al-Arab) by ISIL and the resulting YPG (Syrian Kurdish militias)-ISIL clashes into a settling of accounts with Turkey, rather than portraying it as a power struggle being carried out in a region of Syria. Someone has initiated proceedings and brought turmoil to our streets. A new Gezi scenario is being drawn up.

ISIL attacks on Kobane are being exploited in a rather ugly manner by those that want to settle accounts with Turkey for its part in accepting thousands of refugees and providing all sorts of support to the region’s people. Vandalism and urban terror is being promoted as if Turkey attacked Kobane.   

All day yesterday and last night, offices were vandalized, buses were set on fire, residences were sprayed with gunfire, homes were torched and military and police forces came under attack, in Istanbul and other large cities, and primarily in cities across southeastern Turkey.

CHP (Republican Peoples’ Party) and HDP (Peoples’ Democratic Party) circles clamored for people to take to the streets by trying to provoke violence saying, “We are fighting jihadists.” It is as if reasoning and understanding have been lost. Why are you ransacking Kadiköy Square if you want to fight jihadists? What kind of reasoning is this? What kind of evil intentions and ugliness is this?

It is absolute shamelessness.

Those politicians and intellectuals that have no clue about the unfolding of events in Iraq and about what is going on in Syria, and have no intention of finding out either, have developed a mental block. They are banging on and openly trying to threaten Turkey citing events in Kobane by saying “look, this will end the resolution process.”

I believe those politicians and intellectuals don’t have a clue about the region and what is unfolding in it. They are preaching based on what they have heard second-hand and what they have been taught to say. What is even worse is that these people are stuck between ISIL and the PKK, and are speaking in their rhetoric. We are faced with the tragic situation where they have surrendered to the rhetoric of these organizations, which are incapable of producing political policies or thoughts. This makes them speak like representatives of these organizations. The result is that those taking to the streets and wreaking havoc are adopting the same stance without even being aware of it.

If Ertuğrul Kürkçü of the HDP can provoke terror in the streets by saying, “we have commenced action against jihadists (ISIL),” then all those that have been victimized by these attacks need to corner him and demand compensation for the damage inflicted on them. 

The thought of taking revenge on Turkey – whose people opened their arms to those left helpless there -- due to events in Kobane has nothing to do with Kobane. Their problem is something else. Kobane is just an excuse. They want to utilize these tensions to create a new opposition block and settle accounts with the government. Their problem is not the difficult circumstances in Kobane; it is Turkey and the government.

They don’t actually care about what is happening there. The deaths, migration and violence are not important to them. None of them go to those regions to provide aid. In fact, they sabotage aid efforts, target aid workers and pelt stones at ambulances carrying the injured. They accuse people of being members of ISIL and torch their residences.

They are trying to attack Turkey, which has sheltered 2 million refugees without any proper external assistance. The same Turkey that has sent unlimited aid to the region and treated the injured.

Pay attention to those trying to sabotage the resolution process based on these tensions. Pay attention to those trying to target Turkey via urban terror. Pay heed to who and which forces are the organizers of these provocations. Look very carefully and see if ending the resolution process is beneficial to the Kurds. It is time you saw which country wants to see conflict resume within Turkey. 

Look and understand the extent of the ties this person and her circle have…

They say no to the motion for deploying Turkish troops and then ask for weapons and boots on the ground. What kind of contradiction is this? They vent their fury on those that say let’s create a safe zone and protect Kobane. Then they brew up a storm by saying “why don’t you save Kobane.” What kind of affliction is this? What sort of political blindness is it when the parliamentarian who throws stones at a soldier and says “your state,” then raises hell claiming that Turkey is not saving PYD (the PKK’s Syrian wing) members from ISIL?

This dangerous development by the CHP and BDP (Peace and Democracy Party) of issuing a call to all organizations – in the form of urban terror -- will damage Turkey greatly. This script has two goals: To end the resolution process and to settle accounts with the government by implementing a Gezi-style scenario using the Kurds.

This has nothing to do with the fundamental issues of Kurds. There is absolutely no intention of settling accounts with ISIL. The target is Ankara and not Syria and that is the dangerous aspect of this issue.

Turkey’s future in this region is its togetherness with the Kurds. However, no one should expect that we will classify the Arabs as enemies as part of this partnership. There is absolutely no need to state the distance between Turkey and the violence-fuelled adventure of ISIL and ISIL’s interpretation of Islam. There is also no need to state that Turkey knows that interpreting Islam in that way will result in never-ending wars in the region.

What we need to realize is that the entire region is actually constantly shifting between “two-three fronts” like the Iran-Saudi Arabia fault line. All conflicts in the future will be the result of the major conflict between these two. This is a power struggle and all these other organizations and fronts are shaped within the framework of this power struggle.

Turkey is the balanced option amidst these fronts and is a source of hope. It is on solid footing and should remain so. Directing rage toward Turkey instead of at the West, which is fuelling the conflicts between these fronts, is just an extension of the scenario that seeks to foment unrest in the region as a whole. These powers are creating the infrastructure for sectarian conflicts that will last for years. The only power that can hinder this project is Turkey. That is why they are attempting to wear Turkey down by embroiling it in ethnic conflicts and by placing it in the center of the flames of the regional conflict.  

This is the launching point of urban terror. Let me repeat:

The ISIL issue is a product of the power struggle between Iran and Saudi Arabia. This has been ongoing for 30 years now under different guises. Various fronts and organizations are created as a result of this power struggle.   
The war that is being carried out via ISIL – led by these two countries and with broad Western support -- is laying the groundwork and infrastructure for a regional sectarian war. Pay attention to the ISIL news, in which the Shia are referred to as “Safavids.” 
 Both countries and the Western powers, which want a sectarian war, are trying every route to confront Turkey’s balanced intervention. Worrying that despite these obstacles Turkey might get involved in some aspect has resulted in them directly targeting the resolution process using events in Kobane as fodder. These circles are behind the street activity by members of various organizations, akin to the Gezi events.
Let us stay true to ourselves and not become a party to sectarian-based wars in the region between Iran and Saudi Arabia. Let us maintain our balanced and preventative position in this disaster. It will be tough and Turkey would face many more attacks. However, the only hope for this region will be this stance.