And only when this death-lust has drunk enough blood to its satisfaction, and slowly pulls back to digest all the innocent lives that it has usurped, that in the midst of all the ruins once more it becomes time to talk and to take steps toward a solution.
We are used to politicians speaking without expertise, authority or knowledge to some extent - so much so that we usually understand such a tactical discourse from the word "politics."
Clearly, there is a whole crowd of journalists and academics in this country who are ready and willing to say that “this is where the AKP’s policies have brought us” regardless of what the PKK may do or have done. The best among them can only bring themselves to assert that “the PKK has fallen into a trap set by the AKP in once more resorting to violence.”
First, Selâhattin Demirtaş has come up with a conspiracy theory. A “Gladio” connected to the “Palace” has been pursuing a dirty war, he has declared. (...) Then, KCK Foreign Relations chief Demhat Agit has claimed that the murders were undertaken by “local forces who had got organized among themselves.”