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With the IS factor appearing to have transformed the US into a “partner,” the horizons of the PKK’s imagination expanded to assume fantastic dimensions. They started thinking that it might be possible to bring Turkey to its knees. For this the critical condition was to somehow terminate the Solution Process.

While trying to find some political breathing room for himself, Demirtaş is faced with the danger of becoming ever more deeply mired in a moral turpitude of violence that he cannot help getting spattered with. There are limits to what you can achieve through sheer propaganda and manipulation.

Hence Turkey’s Kandil bombings should be seen as a sharply drawn line intended to set the stage for negotiations in this new phase. There is nothing that the PKK can do against IS by itself.

The PKK, accusing the government of being behind the Suruç bombing attack, has once more launched a “people’s revolutionary war.” This is a pure case of Orwellian doublethink and newspeak. The fact of the matter is, that (unless they are stopped by a new rising wave of public reaction), they are setting fire to a new civil war that is based on nothing but a pack of lies, whose demands are incapable of being met by Turkey and within Turkey, and which is clearly counter-revolutionary in character. And the media, the left and the intellectuals that have been patting the HDP on the back will also have to shoulder a huge degree of responsibility for it.

It simply cannot go on like this; the devastation, destruction and all-around collapse in the Middle East cannot possibly be undone by more and yet more unilateral, unplanned , short-term tactical interventions by the West which lack any overall vision, or by betting on “first Turkey, then the Kurds, then maybe Iran.” The situation is grave enough to call for a new international concept and consensus, a multilateral initiative.