The Bahçeli-Barzani-Talabani equation!..

While some were waiting—like someone "saying amen to a prayer that will never be answered"—for the terrorist leader in İmralı to call on the PKK to "lay down arms," former AKP deputy Şamil Tayyar reacted as follows when it was announced that the "İmralı postmen" Pervin Buldan and Sırrı Süreyya Önder would also tour northern Iraq to meet with the Barzanis and the Talabanis:

"They have truly run it into the ground. It looks so much like the resolution process of the past."

"Looks like" is an understatement; it has everything the previous one had, and then some.

The one who initiated this new process was Bahçeli, who for years considered the fight against the PKK and separatism to be his reason for existence...

Officials from the PKK-affiliated party, whom he wanted to see imprisoned until just yesterday, said that "Turkey needs Bahçeli for peace and brotherhood efforts"...

During the first "opening-scattering" process, the then-Undersecretary of the MİT and current Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan—whom Bahçeli had criticized by calling him the "chief of the AKP's Yenimahalle nursery"—praised the MHP leader's current stance, saying, "Whatever the greatest thing a soldier can demonstrate on the battlefield is, that is the stance Mr. Bahçeli has demonstrated. This is true nationalism."

Anything else?

Although Bahçeli emphasized that there would be absolutely no bargaining other than the PKK laying down its arms and pointed only to İmralı and the DEM Party, saying "There is no Qandil-Edirne," the delegation met with Edirne. Bahçeli then described this meeting as "a harmonious and honorable development"...

Before the İmralı delegation even went to northern Iraq and Qandil, someone was already carrying the terrorist leader's letters...

The terrorist leader's rhetoric about "Middle East projection," "moving the Kurdish issue from a war footing to a democratic footing," "peace and democratic solution," and "the right of peoples to self-determination" began to fill the air. A legislative proposal was even submitted to Parliament to recognize Kurdish as an official language, contrary to the Constitution...

IS IT "LET'S NOT TIRE THE US-ISRAEL, LET US ESTABLISH IT"?

For years, Bahçeli kept explaining that the Barzanistan model in northern Iraq would also be implemented in northern Syria. He even pointed out that "developments show that the AKP has actually been convinced regarding the controlled construction of Kurdistan" and that "discussing developments in northern Syria with the Peshmerga administration has reaffirmed who the primary interlocutor on this issue is," adding that "this is exactly what the policy of growth through division is."

Now, the developments are well-known. After the fall of Assad, the path was cleared for the PKK/YPG structure in northern Syria. They entered into negotiations on four fronts by also reaching an agreement with the structures under Barzani's control there.

It was right in the middle of all this that the İmralı postmen went to northern Iraq with a large delegation. Yesterday, they met with KDP President Masoud Barzani. Today, they will meet with Barzanistan President Nechirvan Barzani, and tomorrow, they will meet with PUK President Bafel Talabani and Qubad Talabani in Sulaymaniyah.

What did they discuss and what will they discuss?

Just like in the first "opening-scattering" process, they are conveying the messages of the terrorist leader in İmralı and receiving the "views, suggestions, and thoughts of the Barzanis and Talabanis regarding the process."

In the 1 hour and 45 minute meeting held yesterday, Masoud Barzani declared, "The peace process is the most correct path for solving problems," and said he was "fully prepared to support the peace process in Turkey and contribute to the progress of the process."

The Turkish nation does not know what is going on, but Barzani knows!..

Excuse me, but what is Barzani to Turkey and the PKK?!

HE HAD SAID "TALABANI'S HOPE IS KILIÇDAROĞLU"

And furthermore, did MHP leader Bahçeli give his "okay" to the inclusion of the Barzanis and Talabanis in the equation?

Why do we ask?

Let us recall his assessments only after joining the People's Alliance, forgetting his words from the period when he was in opposition to the AKP.

He used the following expressions for Barzani:

"Tribal leader," "Head of the Peshmerga," "Protector and supporter of the PKK," "Hope of the murderers of the Mehmetçik (Turkish soldiers)," "Collaborator of oppression," "The name of betrayal in Iraq," "The usher and hitman of the devil," "A complete enemy, a complete disgrace."

These are what he said about Bafel Talabani:

"The PKK has descended into the city in Iraq's Sulaymaniyah," "Sulaymaniyah is being turned into a PKK base."

There is more; before the 2023 Presidential and Parliamentary elections, he claimed that "Bafel Talabani, who is wrapped in the same swaddling clothes as the PKK/YPG and is adding fuel to the fire of sedition in Iraq's Sulaymaniyah, has pinned his hopes on Kılıçdaroğlu."

Let's see how Bahçeli will react to meeting with these Sevres-enthusiasts as well!..

Let us end with one of Bahçeli's claims from 2014. He said;

"Erdoğan needs the PKK and the villain in İmralı to completely destroy the Republic and become President."

Müyesser YILDIZ

February 17, 2025