In fact, centuries ago,  Ibn Khaldun anticipated the events correctly by his formula “geography is the fate”. True, whatever we go through in this geography are those things we cannot escape.  This is one of the reasons why the comments that are published on the western press, their news reports and distortions or the non-native perception based explanations are so aloof and distant from us. This is just a location; they don’t know, understand or live in it.

The besiege of our embassy, the 49 personal staff becoming hostages, their release and their flight in the same airplane in which the Prime Minister are the outcomes of these exclusive  geographical features. 

Even though Hollywood imposes our mental imagination with its movies and series like commandos combating and rescuing hostages, the real life is quite different from those. Tens of articles and case studies were sketched and every resembling incident had more or less catastrophic losses at the end.

The only way to rescue the hostages without any damage or accident was to convince the other side. Whether they gave money or exchanged people… it really does not matter.

If people could just have rescued hostages with money or through the exchange deal, there would have been no hostages in the world. However, there are still hundreds of them in Iraq and Syria.

In some countries, they have more calibrated guns than we have, more updated technological tools, adequate money and human resources, but still they can’t get them back.

In addition to all these, you need interaction, history and connections in the region. You need to be recognized.

Apparently, Turkey conducted a very long and enduring plan, acted meticulously, considered all details and moved with a solid and fluent intelligence roadmap and finally assessed all the probabilities and opportunities.  Apparently, on the other side of the table while being reluctant, it was ready to engage in an operation in case it was necessary and thus it always stood on alarm.

Thankfully, it was not needed.

A few months ago, I asked a politician “you have known the state well, what do you say about our power?” He replied “We don’t have the capacity of arms, money and other logistics, however we have other tools which others don’t have such as historical, religious, social, cultural and kinship ties and this is a great power”.

When I look back on the rescuing of hostages after some time, this is what I realize for the major part. There is no doubt that many routes might have been used such as leaking (information), gaining people from the other side, or seeking help from locals and even voluntarily or obligatory help from the organization itself.

This was not a game or a plot. From the details, it becomes clear that it was quite a difficult process and now we see the other side of the medal. There are tens of thousands of Kurds who filled our borders. This is one of the responsibilities, realities of the geography that we won’t be able to escape. 

It seems eluded, but tens of thousands of refugees who turn into millions at the end every point of history and their migration, sheltering and fleeing have everything to do with the hostage operation.

Turkey is the home for everyone coming from west, east, north and south, regardless of his or her religious, ethnic, factional or national orientation -- no matter what! So, that’s the point of how  a personnel staff of 49, with 46 of them  being citizens, can be brought back if they are captured. There is a co-relation between the peoples who have considered the territory of Anatolia as a place for fleeing and the issue of rescuing the hostages.

When someone’s head is in trouble, he or she benefits from the aids of those who considered Anatolia as their last resort. The contrived or the drawn lines lasted for a whole century.

What the politicians, intellectuals and journalists of the political Kurdish movement in Turkey could not see is such a simple thing that Kurds who have been fleeing from Kobani can easily see it.  Just like the aftermath of Halabja or when they fell out with Baghdad.

The first thing that came to my mind concerning the hostage crisis was the rescuing of the Malta Exiles. They also used diplomatic pressure, staking everything on the table and using persons for exchange. Moreover, we were on the side of the loser in the great World War I.

The high traffic on our borders is not scaring me at all.  Let those, who forgot that at first it were the Crimean Tatars during the mid 18

century and then millions of others who have incessantly sought shelter in Turkey, get scared.