Prof. Dr. Gökhan Arslan writes: Are Turks and Kurds brothers?

I have been planning to write this piece for a long time.

It is a memoir.

I had previously received quite a few congratulations for an article I wrote on Turkish-Kurdish brotherhood.

The subject was my abduction by the PKK, following a tip-off from FETÖ members in the institution where I had worked for years, while I was on assignment in Şırnak just before the trench incidents.

In fact, in this geography, it was not really known who was the elder brother and who was the younger.

We were all both Turkish and brothers.

Later, the Cihangir leftists, fed by European funds, wanted to divide and fragment the nation with poor translations from Anglo-Saxon sources.

Every evening in the mainstream media, they droned on and on. Then, in the taverns of Cihangir, they tried to lecture patriots and Atatürkists like us.

They sang praises to the monster of Imralı, who is at least a thousand years behind in evolution.

As they pushed further, the funds they received also increased.

As the funds increased, so did their arrogance.

They even began to insult the founding leader, Atatürk.

I will not drag this out any further; everyone knows these things.

Let me get to the point.

Years ago, I was on the faculty's special scholarship committee.

We were looking for a needy student to award one of the special scholarships donated by some philanthropists.

Since most of the documents submitted were fake, we were making decisions by looking at the children's clothing and the amount of protein in their cheeks.

And of course, at their mobile phones as well.

For some reason, every student who came in for an interview said they were giving up on receiving the scholarship.

It turned out that a friend from Hakkari was also waiting in line, and because he was the most needy, our poor students had given up on the scholarship, wanting their friend from Hakkari to receive it instead.