When we try to understand what’s going on, after shifting our attention from the news bombardments and breaking news, this time we come face to face with comment bombardment.
So many things are intertwining so fast, that it’s not easy to catch our breath and try to comprehend and observe.
The deaths of around forty people, following HDP’s calling because of Kobane, and the incidents that resulted with turning certain provinces being upside down, had all happened and ended in a couple of days. The happenings were no different from a quick fire. Because of this, when we sit back and look at the news and developments of the last one month, the fire that burst because of Kobane fits right in its place.
Again, we are starting the day with the USA’s, “We had come to an agreement with Turkey regarding the matter of using İncirlik base for the war against ISIL”, flash news.
Ankara makes a correction rapidly; “Such an agreement is yet to be agreed…”
Then later on, it’s understood that the USA didn’t even make such a statement anyway, but this is being reflected like above in the press.
Why and by who? It’s unclear….
Following that, the “We had seen the first page related with the road map of the Resolution Process” statement of the HDP spokesmen are being published as a headline just before noon.
While we are investigating the questions “What is in it? What kind of a connection does this development have with the incidents?”, this time, after a couple of hours, AK Party Spokesman Beşir Atalay makes a statement that requires us to perceive the situation differently; “The Road Map had been submitted to them before the incidents stirred, not today…”
In brief, we are swelling with wrong news or wrongly interpreted statements, rather than news bombardments. And of course, new corrections are being lined up for each of them consecutively.
We had already started the day with Salih Müslim’s, who is a Istanbul Technical University graduate and says to have lived at Etiler once upon a time, statement that they had neither the intention nor the necessity to fight against the Damascus administration. Following this, while the discussion about Barzani’s “When ISIL attacked, Iran had sent two planes full of weapons. Turkey had also sent afterwards; at that time they wanted it to be a secret, but we were expecting a stronger support” statement was ongoing, the possibilities and discussions about whether there had been a weapon transfer to Kobane are coming up suddenly.
As a matter of fact, the answers to the; “How come the weapons of ISIL, who are fighting for months, don’t run out?”, “How come the ammunition in Kobane, whose three sides had been shut by ISIL for about a month and the other side is the Turkey border, doesn’t run out?” questions are still a separate mystery. A critical election happens in between; the Gülen-led group plays their last trump at HSYK (The Supreme Board of Judges and Prosecutors). They lose to the coalition they are facing.
That was not a surprise.
After all, it is already impossible for a single opinion, which imposes acting and thinking the same way unexceptionally no matter the opinion, to be accepted in Turkey. These kinds of attempts are destined to lose tomorrow, even if they had won yesterday. In the new coalition, conservatives, nationalists, the left wing, social democrats and Alevi are all being represented.
Actually, the winner is the coalition, who will clearly see the damages because of Kobane, ISIL, Resolution Process or another issue in the future. Of course, it is pleasing that the coalition is in a polyphonic and more democratic structure. The problem is not in the structure of the coalition; rather, it is in the embittering capacity of the developments that might scatter this structure. Because if there are no interventions or games from the outside, the structures, which are polyphonic and represent the widest segments of the society, are always the healthiest one.
In the end, when we sit back and observe, we reach the fake and twisted news downpour we witness today, which starts from the news and comments of the New York Times and Washington Post and even reaches to Turkey’s cooperation with ISIL. Then it jumps to the incidents in Kobane that had exploded via ISIL and finalizes with HSYK elections.
It is clear that, Ankara is trying to defend its own policy and plan as much as they can. I’m hoping that that an action like Train – Equip, which is something I always believed to be unfavorable, coming to life is hopefully only a defense against contrary plans. It seems that others are trying to impose their own accounts instead of Ankara’s plans. And also, it seems that the majority of people, who are talking, writing and operating within these developments, are not even aware that they are becoming a side of this great tension, leaving aside their own accounts.
The life of a child at Kobane is more precious than the whole Middle East for me. The thing, which many people who are writing and operating via Kobane are unable to see or even if they did don’t care in this conjuncture, is certain for at least a century: A barrel of petrol is more important than the Kobane community to the organizations and states, with which they are allies.
