Yesterday, in Siirt’s Meydandere village, six village guards were martyred as a result of an attack organized by Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) terrorists on a base area that ensures the security of road construction. It is fascinating for the attack to take place at a time when security forces have reached the verge of almost eliminating terrorism with their successful fight. While the action desperately and miserably tries to give the message, “we are still standing,” it may also be seen as an attempt at revenge for the heavy losses they faced as a result of the resolute fight against terrorism.
The organization faced a great loss of strength and influence as a result of the fight of security forces in never before seen efficiency in the history of the fight against terrorism. Thousands of terrorists were neutralized as a result of these operations. Thousands of them fled abroad and ran to new duties assigned to them in northern Syria by their masters.
Everybody has already seen and heard through the increasingly revealed truths that thanks to Operation Olive Branch, holding the base areas to be formed against Turkey is the most important of these duties. It has been proved that the organization claiming to serve Kurds is actually an enemy to Kurds’ faith, culture and existence and is at the service of imperialists. Perhaps, thanks to this, currently the security forces’ greatest gain in the fight against terrorism is that they are entirely deprived of the people’s support. The Kurdish people have seen clearly in the light of new international developments at whose service the organization is and who it is against.
But of course, this is not the sole reason. The real imperative reason is that now, the fight against terrorism more realistically distinguishes between the terrorists and the people – as necessary. It appears that the understanding which left the armed terrorist organization alone with the people and then held the people responsible for this and made them pay the price is rapidly being moved away from. Frankly, this unreasonable and inconsiderate approach was fueling an atmosphere that was convenient for the development of the organization. Because the more the state moved away from the people and, as a matter of fact, looked at the people with anger, the more the inevitable result of this stance was the rapport between the terrorist organization and the people. Today, the direction of this magnetic effect is completely has shifted to become completely the opposite. The fight against terrorism is bringing the people closer to the state, not the terrorist organization.
All of the village guards martyred by the terrorist organization in Siirt are Kurdish. The Kurds who are trying to protect their village, their honor, the future of their children and their security against the PKK terrorist organization and who voluntarily obtain weapons from the state to do this. As a matter of fact, the job they are doing physically is to ensure the security of the road construction that will pass through their village and bring welfare, peace and a future.
What the Kurdish people need most today is to overcome the state of being left behind and safely and steadily catch up with the development that has spread throughout the rest of Turkey. The Kurdish people are the ones paying the heftiest price for the fight the terrorist organization has been claiming to do for the last four decades to save the Kurds. Generations have been wasted. The Kurdish culture that is wanted to be saved is instead struggling with the problems of a culture that has been degenerated today by a racist, fascist, anti-religion and lowly chaotic war ideology. The naked truth of whose name the terrorist organization is doing this for has been revealed in Syria’s Afrin.
U.S. officials had already personally confessed that Washington is behind the terrorist organization. Now they also see very well that we do not buy their childish mockery like changing names. Even though they see this, it is known that they are trying to make a move to eliminate their Syrian affiliate, the Democratic Union Party (PYD) and its armed wing, the People’s Protection Units (YPG), and replace it with a new political party dubbed Syria’s Future.
It became evident that having enough fortification to protect against a nuclear attack in Afrin and organize counter attacks was not grounded in U.S. support alone, but that other countries were also providing support.
While U.S. President Donald Trump’s message to withdraw from Syria meant, “To hell with them,” toward the evening we heard voices that implied that this may actually be the transfer of support for the PYD-PKK to the secret ally, France. By saying it can mediate between the YPG and Turkey, France, without any shame, revealed the naked truth with a statement almost confessing its support to the PKK, which it has, until now, identified as a terrorist organization. This is not an acceptable statement. The audacity to offer to mediate between a terrorist organization and Turkey is essentially the result of the difficulty of turning back from the road that has been walked together with the YPG until now. Otherwise, France does not lack the diplomatic mind to evaluate what this means.
It is all related to the promise French President Emmanuel Macron said he made to the YPG. The rule that has brought France to the point of going against all diplomatic practices and the law of fighting terrorism because of this promise is obvious. Cooperating with a terrorist organization will also reduce the state mind to the level of the terrorist organization.
The best answer to France’s offer to mediate was possibly that by Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu’s Daesh comparison: “What kind of an image would have formed if the president of Turkey had invited members of the Daesh terrorist organization, which caused a bloodbath in France, and tried to mediate between them?”
That threadbare and vile image is now the image of today’s so-called modern, democratic Western world.
This image is the first one behind the masks that Turkey revealed first with Operation Euphrates Shield and then with Operation Olive Branch. Let’s wait and see what more we will witness.
