[RUDAW.NET] Two strong kabooms hit the civil police department in the Turkish city of Istanbul last week, causing strong reaction across the country. The Turkish authorities took even school children to the scene, teaching them hatred and intolerance.The Turkish army mounted on an intensive military operation in July 2015, turning the country’s Kurdish towns into a battlefield countering the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). The year-long operation has cost the lives of more than 2000 civilians.
The situations have now reached flashpoint.
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
is now experiencing on a daily-basis acts of murder, abductions, boom-mobiles, jacket wallahs, military operations, and air bombings.
The PKK pledged to take the war to Turkey’s big cities following the year-long military operation, causing public outcry and condemnation by the country’s political parties including the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP).
The PKK’s new aggressive strategy has had blowback for the country’s Kurds, hampering the HDP’s inclusion in the country’s political process.
The HDP’ winning of 80 parliamentary seats changed the political balance in Turkey. But this didn’t prove long-lasting. The PKK’s influence on the HDP came at a cost, giving the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and other Turkish nationalists a pretext to introduce the HDP to the public as PKK’s shadow in the country.
The AKP and the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) led a smear campaign against the HDP, accusing its MPs of being the PKK’s representatives in the Turkish parliament.
The Kurdistan Freedom Hawks (TAK), an alleged offshoot of the PKK, recently grabbed credit for the Istanbul bombings. This further fomented the situations on the ground, making the PKK the most likely culprit to blame for any future acts of violence in the country.
Following the Istanbul twin-bombings, a boom-mobile hit the Turkish city of Kayseri, targeting a bus transporting troops from the country’s commando brigade. The kaboom cost the lives of 14 soldiers, and maimed 54 more.