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In these circumstances, in order to foresee what the coming weeks and months are likely to bring, it becomes important to have a sense of what the people in the Southeast might be thinking and feeling, what criteria they might be judging the two sides by, how they might be reading politics and the region.

In the midst of Turkey’s seemingly unending election atmosphere, to attribute the collapse of the truce and the return to armed conflict to the president (who has actually been the architect of the Solution Process) is not an analysis but a political preference. But the elephant in the room is still sitting there and will keep sitting there regardless of which party happens to be in government.

It has become habitual for the PKK and the HDP, whenever they find themselves in a fix, to rely on Öcalan for a way out. It is only at such times that they seem to remember Öcalan. But this time the Solution Process has come to a point where it might be difficult to put things together yet again.

If those that were passing harsh judgment on the losses of life incurred during the months-long Gezi demonstrations can now turn around to argue, in defence of the PKK, that “these people have no means left to them other than guns,” it is with the value of the human being, the individual, that we should begin.

We need to arrive at a principle stand on the following point: Can the political resort to arms and violence continue to be regarded as just and legitimate? Let’s make it a bit more concrete: Can the PKK’s recent acts of violence actually hold any benefit for the Kurds?