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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.

Neither that secularist woman was right in accusing me of being “all Arabs, nothing but a bunch of thieves,” nor the nationalist-conservative cab driver in his cocky know-all self-assurance that “at the end of the day a Chinaman is still nothing but a Chinaman.”

The PKK sees itself as exercising all rights and powers over the Solution Process, and it keeps emitting signals that it might renege on this act of grace at any moment. Hence it is, that whenever the Solution Process encounters any sort of problem, the first thing that the PKK can think of is resorting to arms.