They don't want a Turkey that has a say in vital world matters and that has a determining role. There exist secret forces, our enemies and particularly our historical foes, who cannot stomach our becoming a shining star with our growing democracy in the Islamic world -- which has been torn asunder, forced into suffering thousands of artificial plights and troubles and left underdeveloped. The powerful, seeking more and more power for their interests, understand only the language of violence. And the ones they label as "friend" are those acting with them, under their domination. Your uncompromising character deeply disturbs and troubles them. For this reason, they treat you with double-standards, put you off and leave you alone, ever demanding that you stand on the grounds they approve. Let's never forget this fact: the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) is a puppet organization. All people in possession of sound reasoning capability have seen that they are trying to drag Turkey into a quagmire to leave it outside the "equation" or to make it a component in the equation in the way they want. That's why they are hitting us in the heart and want to break us into pieces.
Our heart is the place of our fraternity; our Turkish-Kurdish fraternity. Such a problem never occurred among Turks and Kurds on this soil for a thousand years. However, they have been trying to kindle huge fires of dissension amongst us through never-ending secret attacks launched on outwardly innocent pretexts for a century. We have resisted as an entire nation and continue to resist. We saw the latest example in the July 22 elections; our Easterner and Southeasterner citizens gave out a clear message saying they favor solving the problems together. This caused the internal and external enemy fronts to go berserk!
However, as the coffins draped in the Turkish flag keep coming in from the Southeast as red-hot cinders pressed against our hearts, our resistance has started growing weaker. Provokers infiltrate into our feelings, pure emotions and our excitement. Our Kurdish brothers are portrayed as a target.
The most difficult examination our nation has had to take since our great National Struggle is about our brotherhood. Frankly speaking, nobody can knock us down. However, if we start quarreling over our ethnic backgrounds, nobody can save us from being divided.
God has always helped this nation. Those who set traps have always walked into them themselves. If we continue loving one another and only for God, His help will never cease to be with us and upon us. As long as our love for one another endures, our brotherhood will also endure. Whoever harbors grudges against any of our Kurdish brothers on the grounds that he may be a PKK sympathizer, condemns him or establishes him as a target, that person is either malevolent or a heedless ignorant who doesn't know anything about the plots being devised against us.
What shouldn't we do?
We should never act upon our sentiments. We should never tolerate lawlessness by disregarding the state's security and police forces. We should be aware of those who are programmed to provoke us. We can criticize the government and our armed forces, but we should be meticulous to not "carry water to the mill of the others." We should trust our armed forces to the bitter end. We are a party to a war: could there be any war without casualties?
What should we do?
If there are mistakes and negligence -- apparently there are -- we should endeavor to rectify them. Special forces and units that would have no difficulty fighting a guerilla war against the PKK should step in at once. Our intelligence shortcomings should be eliminated as soon as possible.
Let's get to the most fundamental issues:
It's high time the military stopped making political statements and taking political stances. The military guardianship over the civil will should end. Our recent history is full of examples of defeats we suffered because of a politicizing army. Everybody should do their own job in the best manner possible.
The quintessence of the government's efforts should be democratization. It should not attempt to manage this process we are going through. We should act with equanimity, let commonsense prevail and stay clear of adventures.
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