In the eastern province of Hakkari late last night, six Turkish soldiers and two village guards were killed while 15 troops were injured in an attack by suspected members of PKK, a terrorist organization according to Turkey, the U.S. and the EU.
And what did Turkey's Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan do?
He appeared on live TV this evening and criticized some newspapers, some columnists and the social media commentators for almost half an hour. Then, he elaborated on his remarks today, which he labelled Syria as one of the "enemy countries that hold PKK's strings into line."
While almost proudly saying that nearly 200 PKK militants were killed recently, he signaled that the Turkish government will pursue a military solution. Ankara keeps seeing the issue as a foreign element and may soon start to hit "PKK camps in northern Syria," just like it has been doing in northern Iraq, Erdogan hinted.
Four journalists, who couldn't dare to ask a challenging question to the Prime Minister, just showed that they were as clueless as Erdogan himself in suggesting a rational solution.
Four journalists, who couldn't dare to ask a challenging question to the Prime Minister, just showed that they were as clueless as Erdogan himself in suggesting a rational solution.
It is clear that a military perspective cannot solve the Kurdish issue in Turkey, like it couldn't do for the last three decades, but the victims will surely remain the same:
All of our people who die in vain and all of our journalists who are jailed or being humiliated by this government on any occasion.
As the elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers, again.
As the elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers, again.
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