Dedicated to All PKK-Admirers

Dear all, who can still think that PKK militants are lovely freedom fighters,

Your beloved guerillas did something nasty a couple of days ago.

Two bombs exploded minutes apart in a crowded Istanbul street, killing 17 people and wounding more than 150, including a friend of mine.

This was the deadliest attack against Turkish civilians in recent years, but you, as unbiased journalists, might be hesitant to call it a terrorist act, as this is not an N-POV expression...

However, for the slained ones, including those two little children and one infant who was in his pregnant mother's tummy yet, N-POV doesn't mean anything.

Neither do my words.

So I will be silent, but you, honorable men, please feel free to keep praising PKK with your sinister subliminal messages, as it seems that it means a lot to you.

Take Clive Myrie, the BBC correspondent who has recently gone to northern Iraq mountains for an important interview with PKK leadership.

Clive had got a "Rendezvous with PKK" and here, involuntarily, I imagine of cheap escort services and other sordid means of prostitution.

Clive does it very well, even though he can't even pronounce correctly the name of the person whom he interviews, PKK leader Murat Karayilan.

Believing that PKK is a "guerrilla group", Clive tells us how Murat Karyilan (sic) "looks like a kindly old uncle". After a for-show-only effort to force Karayilan render an account of civilian victims of PKK, Clive sounded convinced about their causes. "They are struggling for rights", Clive assures us.

Unfortunately, we have already seen that Clive is not the only Western journalist who tries to romanticize terrorists.

We had seen even worse examples, such as the Washington Post pals and Andrew Lee Butters, a Time blogger whom I can't find the appropriate swearwords to describe.

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Dear journalists, who can still think that PKK militants are lovely freedom fighters,

OK, you can keep poisoning your public opinion in this way, but please don't do something:

Don't make a fool of your readers. They are neither blind nor deaf nor mentally disturbed.

Some terror attacks might not be easy to solve; but the bombing massacre on Monday night is not one of them. Even though there might be some questions, the most probable usual suspect is definitely PKK here.

Don't expect PKK to claim responsibility, because they never did after such massacres against civilians (like we have seen in many attacks before, including the Blue Market arsoning in 1999, which claimed 13 lives).

PKK doesn't admit such terror attacks because of PR concerns, but its leaders are now happy to have given the required message to the necessary circles (such as Turkish public with its government and its army) this way.

Consider the fact that the type of the bomb, RDX, was the favorite of PKK, not another group...

Consider the timing and the relevance, remembering that the Turkish army recently stepped up the air raids against PKK strongholds (before and after the latest terrorist act) in northern Iraq and the German government finally plugged off their financial machine in Europe.

Considering these facts, sane analysts are almost sure that it was PKK, but you can also be more cautious in a wise way.

However, if you try to whitewash PKK atrocities in ridicilous ways like our dear Clive has used, you will surely be condemned as terror sympatizers.

And this is totally justified; maybe not in yours, but in the very eyes of the dead children.