Freedom of murder in Turkey

The state terror targeting civilians in the Kurdish region has left dozens of people dead since the blatant initiation of the war concept by the AKP as a kind of avenge for its failure to get what it desired from the elections.

The total warfare concept of the AKP, initiated after its historic defeat at June 7 elections, is being put into practice with ongoing operations against fighters of the Kurdish Freedom Movement, imposition of curfews and massacre of civilians in Kurdish towns, arrest of Kurdish administrators elected by the people, demolition of cemeteries of guerrillas and attacks on HDP around the country.

As the Kurdish circles insist on their demand for the ending of the conflict in the country through talks and negotiations for the resolution of the Kurdish question and attainment of a lasting peace, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and the AKP government maintain their approach for the continuation of the war and bloodshed ahead of the November 1 election they imposed on the country in a desire to get a higher rate of votes than June 7.

The Turkish officials in addition put the blame of the current situation in the country on either HDP at times, or PKK the other times, while they also state clearly that things would not have reached this point if AKP had gained 400 seats in the parliament in June.

The state terror targeting civilians in the Kurdish region has left dozens of people dead since the blatant initiation of the war concept by the AKP as a kind of avenge for its failure to get what it desired from the elections.

Furthermore, the state officials claim either that 'no civilians have been killed in intervention by security forces', or 'all the civilians were killed by the terrorist organization', which has become a term used only for the PKK in Turkey.

As all the civilian deaths remain unexposed and untried, security forces are encouraged to commit further crimes against the Kurdish population owing to the provoking statements and orders by state officials.

On the other hand, it is no more counted as a crime for security forces to kill civilians during events, protests, demonstrations, interventions or just anytime that doesn't witness a particular situation.

None of the perpetrators of civilian murders has been put on trial or punished so far, apart from several exceptions that were forced by popular reactions but still didn't go beyond punishing only the trigger, without ever shedding a light on the actual actor behind the murders, as was the case in the murder of Armenian journalist Hrant Dink.

Such shady murders by the state will never be exposed as long as the 'deep forces' targeting those criticizing, objecting to and standing against the government and the state remain. The unidentified murders of the 90's still remain in dark, as perpetrators are yet to be exposed, and even the bones of many victims are yet to be found by their families.

In addition to the still unrevealed ones, Turkish state and forces affiliated to it commit further crimes against humanity every day.

While countless victims are still waiting for justice under the ground, it seems unlikely that justice could be done for those living on it under the same and even worse conditions and facing attacks of annihilation, which leave more and more victims every day.

The problem of impunity is a problem of mentality the Turkish state was grounded on. This land used to be Anatolia and house numerous diversities once, until they were all massacred and the country was changed into a 'Turkish state'. Kurds were the main group that resisted it, took up arms and started a fight and self-defense to survive, which is now called 'Kurdish issue'.

There exists no Kurdish question because existence cannot be a matter of question. Kurds will continue proving the world that the more attacks they face, the stronger they will grow and fight.