Is information being hidden from the 'Wise Leader'?!

They are officially treating the nation like children regarding the “Terror-Free Turkey” project.

Since the call made by the terrorist leader in İmralı on February 27, it has been claimed that the PKK will convene its congress today or tomorrow to lay down its arms and surrender.

So much so that Abdülkadir Selvi, who claims that “we are very close to the historic moment,” even named that day for the PKK, drawing a parallel to the “Good Friday” when the IRA decided to lay down its arms.

What is it; the “founding leader,” the terrorist head, has given the instruction to “lay down arms.”

Yes, he said this, but he also had Sırrı Süreyya Önder add the following sentence as a “note” to the text he read in the video recorded in İmralı:

“Undoubtedly, in practice, the laying down of arms and the dissolution of the PKK require the recognition of democratic politics and the legal dimension.”

In other words, not only the pro-government media but also those who govern the country are in a state of “approaching prayer”; they do not see, and do not let others see, this crucial part of the matter.

That is why, while Ankara says, “First the congress, then democratic and legal regulations,” both the DEM and the PKK are primarily negotiating for the creation of free working conditions for the terrorist leader and for him to somehow preside over the congress to be convened.

THOSE WHO APPROVE OF THE QAMISHLI DECISIONS

While Ankara waits; last Saturday, in Qamishli, right next to Nusaybin, “those from the four parts of Kurdistan” held a “national unity” conference and took a decision for a “decentralized/federative” structure for Syria.

The only person from the AKP, Yeni Şafak columnist Mehmet Metiner, approved of these decisions. While emphasizing that the demands in the declaration were not those of the PYD/YPG, but the common demands of all Kurdish groups participating in the conference, Metiner skillfully hid the fact that the DEM also attended the meeting, meaning the demands are also valid for Turkey. In the declaration, he argued that “interpreting and suppressing the emphasis on decentralization as ethnic separatism-divisionism would open the door to a new area of conflict,” that “Turkey should support the legitimate and justified demands of the region's Kurds with an imperial vision,” and that “the demands do not pose a threat to either the unity of Syria or the survival of Turkey.”

ACCORDING TO THE CHP, THE SEVRES-BASED PERSPECTIVE IS “CRUDE”

Namık Tan, the new Deputy Chairman of the CHP responsible for Foreign Affairs, painted a picture that is not surprising for him personally, but will be interesting for the CHP.

Claiming that a direct demand for a federation did not emerge from the congress in question, but rather a more decentralized structure was desired, Tan cleared up a “misunderstanding” as follows:

“The direction in which the administrative structure that Syria or any neighboring country will adopt evolves can never pose a threat to Turkey. What is meant here is actually the concern that the four-part ‘Kurdistan’ might one day unite, or read conversely, that our country might one day be divided. This perspective is as crude as it is neither realistic nor rational. The four separate countries in question, namely Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and Syria, each have their own unique conditions, structures, histories, and cultures... On the other hand, a unitary state structure and decentralization or strong local government are not phenomena that are incompatible or mutually crippling... If one prefers to approach the issue solely from the windows of ‘securitization’ or ‘national security,’ the proposition that the sought-after security belt will be provided spontaneously by the Kurds across the border is true and real, even if it might turn current conventional wisdom upside down.”

Against this perspective, let us underline the following statements made by CIA-linked Henri Barkey in 2012, after asking why the Treaty of Sèvres is referenced in the preamble of the so-called constitution prepared for Barzanistan, and recalling that one of the AKP architects of the first resolution process said: “We cannot look at this problem from the perspective of the Sèvres and Lausanne negotiations. We need to look at it from a contemporary angle... The most correct solution is a Turkey-Barzani alliance. Such an alliance would make Turkey strong in the Middle East.”

- “After seeing the Kurdish example in Iraq, it is quite normal for the Kurds in Syria to say, ‘We also want an autonomous, federal region.’ Therefore, the notion that a new Kurdistan is being established is correct in a way. However, there is no reason for this to be seen as a major threat to Turkey. Just as you get along well with the Kurds in Northern Iraq, you can also get along well with the Kurds in Syria.”

- “In Turkey, children are given a lot of vaccines as soon as they are born. One of them is the Sèvres vaccine. From the moment you are born, you are subjected to Sèvres propaganda; ‘Western powers want to keep Sèvres alive, a Greater Kurdistan is wanted to be established’... There is a terrible socialization regarding Sèvres in Turkey. It is one of the myths created by the Kemalists, by the early Republican period, to defend itself, to create a nation-state.”

In short; if the CHP's Tan had also said “Sèvres is paranoia,” it would have been complete!..

ANKARA’S QAMISHLI SHOCK

Let us look at the atmosphere in Ankara after the Qamishli decisions, which came loudly and clearly.

Nuray Babacan from Nefes, who keeps a finger on the pulse of AKP backrooms, reported that Turkey was aware of the entire preparation process and evaluated it as “part of the PKK’s dissolution process,” but that now Ankara’s plan has gone awry, and both the scenarios regarding the resolution process and the rapid expectations regarding the PKK dissolving itself have hit a wall.

The following information provided by Hande Fırat, who is very close to the government, was even more remarkable:

“The coming days are pregnant with critical and historic moments... If a consensus is reached between Damascus and the ENKS, a political solution ground supported by Turkey could emerge in northern Syria. However, if the PYD and its allies continue to insist on a federation, a new wave of crisis could be inevitable.”

The “ENKS” are the groups affiliated with Barzani; it seems Ankara’s hope and expectation was a Barzani-led scenario, which we had asked about back in December: “Who will own Western Kurdistan?”

WHAT DID FİDAN SAY 4 MONTHS AGO?

Apart from these backroom talks, what were the official statements of our authorities?

Four days after the Qamishli decisions, Erdoğan, while returning from Italy, where he had gone the day before, stated for the first time that “the issue of a federative structure is nothing more than a pipe dream” and said, “fait accomplis will not be allowed in our region.”

At his party’s Parliamentary Group Meeting yesterday, he only sufficed to say, “As the People’s Alliance, we are concerned not with saving the day, but with building Turkey’s future. We are managing the Terror-Free Turkey project, which we are conducting with great patience, the developments in Syria that we are following carefully, the increasingly heated rivalries in the Mediterranean, and the sensitivities in the economy with such a projection.”

The reaction of Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, who made the first assessment while the issue was still fresh, is known; he stated that “they do not accept any initiative that targets the territorial integrity of Syria, undermines its sovereignty, and ensures the continuation of terrorist organizations.”

Yet, in December, when asked, “Whether an autonomous region or entity in northern Syria would pose a threat to Turkey,” the same Fidan had replied, “I don’t think it would be right for me to speak on behalf of the Syrian people, because this is an issue that the Syrians will decide,” and we had noted upon this, “It is clear from today who will decide the future of Syria: the one who pays the money and those who will write the new constitution will have the final say!..”

After five days, the Ministry of National Defense sources finally stated yesterday, “We are opposed to autonomous region and/or decentralist rhetoric or activities, just as the New Syrian Administration is.”

HOPING FOR HELP FROM THE ACTOR OF THE QAMISHLI DISGRACE

Before Erdoğan and the Ministry of National Defense, the reaction shown the day before by Devlet Bahçeli, the leader of the MHP, the partner of the People’s Alliance and the leader of the İmralı opening, was important and remarkable.

Describing Qamishli as a “provocation” and a “disgrace of adding water to cooked rice,” Bahçeli emphasized that separatist demands were voiced and decisions were taken against the political and territorial integrity of Syria with the encouragement and support of the US-France and the organization of the ENKS and PYD, and made the following call to the DEM:

“It is a requirement of consistency for the DEM Party, which is making progress with determination and patience toward becoming a party of Turkey, to show a reaction to the game played in Qamishli.”

DEM Co-Chair Tülay Hatimoğulları gave the following response to Bahçeli:

“When we look at the decisions taken at the Kurdish National Conference held in Syria, it stands in a place that serves the common struggle for life of Syria’s own peoples. We saw it as support for the call for peace and a democratic society made by Mr. Abdullah Öcalan. That is how we see it. Therefore, it does not stand in a place that sabotages this process in any way.”

To get to the point;

Did a delegation consisting of the DEM and the Democratic Regions Party (DBP) go to Erbil and Sulaymaniyah before that conference? Yes, they did.

Did they cross from there to “northern and eastern Syria,” meet with terrorist leader Mazlum Kobani, and exchange views on “political developments and peace negotiations in both Syria and Turkey”? Yes, they did.

Did the same delegation participate in the Qamishli disgrace? Yes, they did.

After the conference, did the DEM Headquarters celebrate the “‘Kurdish Unity and Common Attitude Conference’ successfully held in northern and eastern Syria” and issue a statement saying, “The conference in Rojava, which was also attended by representatives from our party, is not only a historic step in terms of achieving unity among Kurds, but also a very important opportunity for the establishment of a democratic Middle East where every people, faith, and culture living in the Middle East, especially in Syria, can live with their own identity and status. Instead of life and management models imposed from the outside, democratic models to be established with the will and alliance of the peoples living in these lands are the only solution”? Yes, they did.

It seems that Bahçeli, who has been called a “wise leader” even more since the İmralı opening, was unaware of these, so he asked the DEM to show a reaction to the Qamishli game!..

Müyesser YILDIZ

May 1, 2025