The PKK's tutelage over Kurds and the HDP missing out on the opportunity to be in Parliament with its 13 percent as a result of its supportive statements for the terror organization has forced the state to put the reconciliation process on the shelf.
They sorrow as they behold their lost paradise from the outside. They are stock still, frozen in time with Sözcü in their hands. Reading its oversize “Tayyip” headlines they delude themselves into believing that they are “thinking about politics.” Actually it is more like delirious ravings which they are not conscious of.
There are some profound emotional, political and psychological ties between the PKK and the HDP. Furthermore, the PKK is still effective and decisive. But now the HDP has also become a “fact of life.”
Their past education or social class is no longer relevant. Neither are their religious beliefs. Nobody questions the others’ faith, confession, race or class. All are in a rush to go to another country in order to build a new life. For war does not differentiate between wealth or poverty, or between this or that status or social class. Because the war does not make a difference between class, statue, wealth or poverty. It unites everybody on the same sidewalk.
The PKK turns out to have never really reconciled itself to unarmed politics. A discourse of peace may frequently be deceptive, and may lead those who appropriate it to lose touch with reality. It is the easiest thing on earth to come up with a discourse of peace, whereas a practice of peace is extremely difficult.