Haberler

Both sides to the fight have discovered that in the face of various events, what some very broad sections of society are after is not knowledge based on reason but satisfying their emotional requirements. So what you have to feed them is not any real information that can answer the crucial questions, or respond to their doubts or curiosity, but some other stuff that can appeal to their need for justification in confrontation. That is what the customer demands.

“The people’s revolutionary war” launched by the PKK was a move primarily against İmralı. By terminating the solution process, the PKK and the HDP ended up short-circuiting Abdullah Öcalan, who had been the government’s interlocutor in that process.

There are two leaders who have left their marks at the heart of the reconciliation process. First, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan decided to initiate...

But one must be ignorant, stupid or immoral to claim that the AK Party did not want to grant rights to Kurds, started a war and oppressed Kurdish people.

In the wake of the Ankara tragedy I thought of all this yet again. A pathological political culture had for some time been running below the surface but variously signaling its presence to society at large. The 10th October catastrophe brought it out into the open, exposing all its defining characteristics. This is a tradition of political behavior that we have long been familiar with through the history of the so-called “revolutionary left.” An outlook that lacks responsibility, and is also alien to common sense.