Can this whole process result in a complete parting of ways? And what is it likely to cost to the region, to the Kurds, and to Turkey? On what new basis can the search for a peaceful solution be re-activated? This is going to be truly a very complicated process.
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.”