Aerial infrared images of the Aktütün area in Hakkari, the province bordering northern Iraq where the attack by the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) took place, published in the daily clearly showed that the terrorist attack was almost broadcast live on the monitors of the General Staff. Much has been said so far about the security flaws in the Aktütün attack. However, Taraf's report urged many to confess a bitter truth, the fact that some circles actually want terror to be perpetuated. Bugün's Gülay Göktürk explains how she experienced a feeling of bafflement upon seeing Taraf's report. Referring to a commander who said the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) would purchase spy aircraft in order to better monitor the actions of the PKK terrorists, Göktürk says this is nothing more than mocking the nation. "They talk about gathering more intelligence with these aircraft as if they had managed to benefit from the intelligence already in their hands. They ask for the authorities granted under a state of emergency as if they had benefited from their existing authorities," she complains. As to what will happen next, she predicts the General Staff will either launch an investigation to find out who leaked these intelligence documents, or will appear before the public and acknowledge that it is indebted to all of us. Recalling a similar attack last year in Dağlıca, where the General Staff again failed to make use of intelligence and failed to save the lives of 12 soldiers, Göktürk says these two incidents show that there is a single obstacle before the ending of this war: the desire of some to perpetuate this war at all costs. "We are waiting for some officials from the General Staff to appear and give an account of this," Göktürk says.
Sabah's Emre Aköz agrees with Göktürk that the state does not want to resolve the PKK problem or the Kurdish problem. He argues that the PKK's survival for the past 25 years is not the result of a mistake, but of an intentional state policy. Referring to a PKK official who served in the top level of the organization before he surrendered to security forces, he questions how 350 PKK terrorists could have attacked the Aktütün outpost. "The PKK does not have the strength to carry out such attacks if they are not allowed to do so. If it was not allowed, it could not have carried out the Aktütün attack or the Dağlıca attack. It is a lie that the Aktütün attack was carried out by a group of 350 terrorists. At most, 50-60 PKK terrorists must have carried out this attack," Aköz quotes the former PKK commander as saying. On Taraf's report, he says that the region is monitored like the house in the Big Brother television show but that the General Staff does nothing to make use of this intelligence. "Aktütün was watched like a military exercise conducted with real bullets," Aköz laments.
Radikal's Avni Özgürel says that although it may seem incredible, there are some in Turkey who do not want PKK terrorism to come to an end. "Just think what those who have all their calculations on the mountain-terror balance would do in such a case. It is not a fiction that some fear the end of terror," he claims.
