Recep Tayyip Erdogan is coming. Siirt is ready. The slogan chosen for the visit of the Prime Minister to Siirt today, echoes a veiled threat. Beware, Erdogan is coming. And indeed the Prime Minister is adopting a 'though guy' stand in this electoral campaign. He has not, as one would expect, the conciliatory tone his status imposes on him. He is the Prime Minister and he should serve every citizen. But indeed Erdogan has long chosen to be only the Prime Minister of some sections of the society, excluding others. It is not possible for a Prime Minister to lash out of a consistent section of the society the way he constantly does against the Kurdish people. "There is no Kurdish question", he said. And thus closing the issue of millions of people. He did not close the issue, obviously. Indeed he opened it even further. The Kurdish question indeed dominates this electoral campaign, whether Erdogan likes it or not. The answer from the ruling AKP government has been one of violence. Physical and verbal. The physical part Erdogan left it to the army and the police. "They are doing their duty", the Prime Minister said thus giving his placet to the ongoing slaughter of Kurdish people. He kept for himself the verbal violence. Erdogan has been saying things which closely narrow racism and hate. He has given off to democratically elected representatives of the Kurdish people as well as to the thousands of men and women who marched the other day to the border with the Kurdistan Federal Region to reclaim the bodies of their guerrillas, their children.

In Malatya the Prime Minister said that "a police station was raided and two policemen were slaughtered in Silopi" and he added: "Is this the struggle for freedom? We will vindicate our policemen and soldiers". For a Prime Minister to talk of revenge instead of dialogue it is clearly worrying, indeed scaring. More so considering that the Kurdish people have been holding out their hand for years. The Kurdish people's hand has not been shaken in a sign of piece. And yet, still they are talking about peace and dialogue.

Today the Prime Minister will be in Siirt, the city some of the 10 guerrillas who lost their life in Uludere between 13 and 14 May were coming from. Will he be delivering words of war ?