The scale of the KCK's set-up
The situation is grim. Southeastern Anatolia can almost be considered under the rule of a state mechanism built by a communist terrorist organization. The PKK has now penetrated our borders and reached even the city centers. In some regions of Southeastern Anatolia, KCK courts are considered legal entities and it is quite ordinary to hang Öcalan posters in state buildings and people are tried in street tents that have Öcalan posters displayed on them. The PKK has set up its own military, carries out military activities in full view, performs drills, blocks roads, bullies people, martyrs our soldiers, police officers and citizens in the urban areas through stealthy ambushes. Some municipalities held by the HDP and under the threat of KCK, which derives power from the attacks of the PKK, take the liberty to announce publicly that “they have declared self-government.” It needs to be remembered that this is also through the pressure of the PKK.
YDG-H militants blocking the roads in Turkish cities. This recklessness gained strength during the so-called ceasefire, and now the PKK has now come to the point of laying treacherous traps within the cities.
“Freedom to Apo”
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The PKK militants are on the streets now. Southeastern people have been living under the pressure of the PKK terrorists for a long time. |
Orhan Miroğlu, an AK Party MP, wrote in his article of May 17, 2015, when “the Solution Process” was still on the agenda, “Writing from the Mardin ‘Canton’,” that 150 people, mostly children, were taken to mountains in the past month in Kızıltepe and Dargeçit. Şanlıurfa Governor İzzettin Küçük announced on TV that 3,000 children were abducted in the first six months of 2015 in the region. In Suruç alone, 400 children were taken. Küçük expressed the gravity of the situation, saying, “We were informed that the PKK wants to take one kid to the mountains from every house. Also many district officers (muhktars) in Şanlıurfa were abducted to Kobane. We informed the authorities of this situation.” Regrettably, these are only the known cases. The families in the region continue to struggle with this problem, and many barely escape abduction of their children, while others find it best to hide their children or use everything they have, despite their poor financial standing, to send their children to distant cities. The PKK has gained a foothold in the cities and not only does it martyr our police, soldiers and citizens but also takes our children to the mountains, and surprisingly, this seemingly cannot be prevented.
Miroğlu narrates his experiences in Dargeçit, Mardin, during his election campaign as a candidate of the AK Party:
We recently paid a visit to our regional office and only 20 people came to welcome us. Fear can get the best of people. The AK Party will get its share of votes from this town but people whose houses are under attack with bombs and gunfire almost everyday are under so much pressure that they are not able even to say hello in broad daylight to their representatives whom they will vote for and send to the parliament.
I don't know about my colleagues, but for one moment, I felt like I had passed the border of South Korea and entered North Korea for my election campaign. I have so many friends in this town. If it wasn't for this nightmare hovering over the town, I have no doubt that they would welcome us as early as the entrance of the town...
YDG-H militants admitted that they became better organized and armed in the ceasefire period during so-called Solution Process. |
The terrible consequences of this reign of fear became visible following the June 7, 2015 general elections; eastern Turkey up to Northeastern Anatolia was delivered into the hands of the KCK. This horrible structure that has taken almost entire control of Southeastern Anatolia is now spreading towards the west, to big cities and even the biggest universities in Turkey. Patriotic students in Istanbul, Izmir and other western cities are martyred by the PKK in full view, and terrorist organization’s banners are carried with impunity at ODTÜ, Istanbul and Ankara Universities.
The PKK terrorists walking fearlessly on the streets with their rocket launchers became more determined to establish an empire of fear and to show that they seized streets of Turkey. |
It is a known fact that as the so-called Solution Process was going on, particularly in Southeastern Anatolia, the members of the terrorist organization accumulated significant wealth in numerous economic fields, particularly in construction, health-care, textile, agriculture and the entertainment industries, and that they have monopolized these industries. This is explained as follows in the Special Diyarbakır Report of the 21st Century Turkey Institute:
It is safe to say that armed activities of the PKK, lobbying by the KCK, illicit money originating from drug trafficking under control of the organization and the fact that municipalities use law as a weapon have all played a determining role in this rise.
Economic power has also been achieved through pressure. Business people who are determined not to give in to the pressure of the terrorist organization have to live with a constant threat to their lives and risk their business. This is the main reason behind the frequent news of the martyrdom or abduction of workers at dam construction sites, the burning of construction machines, raided construction sites, abductions and roadblocks.
During this time, the PKK, under the supervision of the KCK, has set ablaze hundreds of schools, private teaching institutions and dormitories. Hundreds of village guards were martyred or made veterans; district officers, soldiers, doctors and teachers were abducted and the construction of dams and fortified outposts was prevented. It is a known fact through intelligence that the PKK has distributed weapons to almost every home in Hakkari, Beytüşşebap, Cizre, Siirt, İdil, Bingöl and Bitlis. Instead of the Turkish flag, rags of the PKK can be seen now everywhere in the region. The group gave 20,000 Kalashnikovs to its militia (YDG-H) and gave Glock pistols to YDG-H team commanders. According to the reports of security units on the group’s acts perpetrated in the period between late 2014 and early 2015 – in other words in the five-month-period when the so-called Solution Process was continuing – the PKK carried out 1,190 social events in these five months. As is well known, the PKK, which is expected by certain circles to lay down arms, resumed its malicious acts immediately after the general elections, ambushing both Turkish police and soldiers.
After the fighting has started, a confession came from the YDG-H: “We knew that the state would drop the peace talks, so we grew and organized ourselves meanwhile.” Members of the YDG-H who interviewed the Wall Street Journal made this grave statement: “There are many of us, and we are in every city in Turkey now”.
Hüseyin Çelik, the Chief Advisor to the AK Party Chairman, made the following explanation on December 13, 2013, revealing the gravity of the situation: “It wasn't the BDP who won the elections in 2009, it was the PKK and the KCK. But they didn't win it through democratic means. They did it by threats. The [terrorist] organization has worked on that election very hard. And this is how they did it: They prevented AK Party voters, and even party members, and ballot box officers, and building officers to go to the ballot box and cast their votes by force, by force of arms and threats. Our members, officers were directly threatened by phone calls from Qandil. They intimidated 45,000 Van residents, AK Party voters and prevented them from voting by threatening them. They set the car of one of our members on fire because he wouldn't listen to them. This is the reason why we lost in Van. It is the KCK.”
This fake, communist state-like organization is under the control of a terrorist group that is in the habit of backstabbing and staging cowardly attacks and therefore, it is not surprising that it manages its control through the spreading of fear and terror. The people of Southeastern Anatolia are living under severe pressure and threat while the mainstream media is largely indifferent to these realities, and for the sake of the Solution Process, chooses to feature people and statements that propagandize Öcalan and the PKK. Those columnists who go to Qandil and glorify (and sometimes hail) the terrorists, portraying their lifestyles like a fairy tale, are shown under favorable light.
The fact that the PKK will not lay down its arms, but will actually grow stronger and arm itself even more, that it will set up caches in the cities, cunningly establish hegemony over cities and then return to the fray as the communist ideology demands and once more turn its guns on our people in a cowardly manner is something we have reiterated and warned against throughout the ceasefire process. We issued that warning because it is obvious that due to its ideology, the PKK will never abide by a ceasefire or accept any such thing as peace, but will continue to use violence to achieve its aim of a communist state until the Turkish state collapses. If - God forbid - they manage to tear off parts of Turkey and build a communist state there then a massive surge in terror will result, which will ultimately plunge the entire world into turmoil.
“Urban Warfare Escalates in Turkey’s Kurdish-Majority Southeast,” The Wall Street Journal, Ayla Albayrak,
http://www.wsj.com/articles/urban-warfare-escalates-in-turkeys-kurdish-majority-southeast-1440024103
http://www.wsj.com/articles/urban-warfare-escalates-in-turkeys-kurdish-majority-southeast-1440024103
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