Tuesday's KCK operation which mainly targeted PKK Leader Abdullah Öcalan’s lawyers is once again debated in harsh and hot-tempered way in the Turkish media.

Daily newspaper Radikal said the operation was Ankara’s message to Qandil to forget about Öcalan and a sign that KCK operations will continue. The paper, with an obvious sensibility to the subject in comparison to other papers, also wrote about the PKK’s reaction statement which was published on ANF yesterday. In his article with the title ‘Message to PKK’, Cevdet Aþkýn pointed out that Ankara was not only increasing air assaults against the PKK but also toughening its position with efforts to inactivate the base before constitutional negotiations.

Taraf newspaper pointed out that the operation came soon after Prime Minister Erdoðan’s statements about Asrýn Law Office to which Öcalan’s lawyers are affiliated. The paper noted that the decision for operation had been taken by Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office. Columnist Ahmet Altan said that the government could always break the strength of the Kurdish politics by carrying out big such operations when it wanted.

One other daily newspaper Zaman wrote that the operation had been carried out against the ‘leadership committee’ of the organzation. The paper remarked that Turkey’s anti-terror concept had changed as of the second half of 2011 as the government abandoned the strategy of contacting Öcalan and PKK and seeking a solution over their demands and proposals.