Why they are scared of Erdoğan

During the Diyarbakır gathering in 2005, where Erdoğan started the resolution process, the PKK created a complete terrorizing atmosphere and didn't allow Mayor Osman Baydemir to welcome the Prime Minister.

However, Erdoğan said, “We don't necessarily need to give a name to every issue. Because those issues belong to all of us. However, if you are saying 'let's give it a name', then the Kurdish issue is the issue of everyone, not just a part of the nation”.

By going one step further than Demirel's “We acknowledge the Kurd reality” statement and Mesut Yılmaz's “The road to the EU passes through Diyarbakır” description, he revealed the resolution willpower and replied to the people, who were saying, “What will happen to the Kurdish issue?”, by saying; “I'm saying that, as the Prime Minister of this country, this issue is my issue before anyone else's.” He was not content with it, so he said, “I'm ready to drink the hemlock poison” in the name of the resolution of the Kurdish issue.

During the weekend, the President was in Batman and Diyarbakır, and yesterday he was in Siirt and Mardin. Erdoğan traveled to the region as the architect of the resolution process. The PKK ordered its units not to welcome Erdoğan. They are a peace dove in the West, but they are still the PKK as we know them in the East…

I wonder what the neo-nationalists, who are thinking about voting for HDP, will do in this case. Will they say the Republic of Turkey comes first, or, will their Tayyip Erdoğan hostility be sufficient?

Kurdish people really love Erdoğan. However, they hate Erdoğan. Because, they are scared of the resolution. As the President emphasized, “The resolution process developed despite them, not thanks to them.”

They are also presenting Erdoğan's “There is no Kurdish issue, Kurds have an issue” approach, which he brought into the forefront recently, as a justification. Erdoğan's approach is open for discussion. Before the New Constitution is realized, and the PKK's armed elements leave the country and bury their weapons for good, we cannot say that there is no Kurdish issue. However, it's clear that Erdoğan referred to the point we've arrived at today from the Turkey where even mentioning Kurds was a crime. If anyone is to talk about the resolution of the Kurdish issue in this country, it should be Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. We owe our gains today to him. In his Diyarbakır speech, he said, “If God permits; we will be finishing the process all together.” I believe that the rising in the MHP is a tactical case because of PKK's pressure. Besides, even if I'll be the only person in the world, I will continue defending the resolution process. Because I regard the resolution process as the alliance of Selahattin Eyyubi's and Fatih's grandchildren.

Until now, other Presidents also went to the region, such as Kenan Evren, who had the Kurds experience the Diyarbakır dungeon and disregarded the Kurds in the Constitution. The PKK never protested against Kenan Evren.

The architect of the 90s, President Demirel, also went to the region. The PKK never took down the shutters when Demirel visited.

Ahmet Necdet Sezer, who hated Kurds and closed down the parties established by the Kurds during his time as the Constitutional Court President and President, went to the region.

The PKK never protested against either of them. They didn't order their local units to not to welcome them.

However, when Erdoğan, who prepared the environment where Kurds can proudly say that they are Kurds, went to the region, the PKK became annoyed. They weren't even annoyed when MHP Chairman Devlet Bahçeli travelled to Diyarbakır, but they were annoyed when one of the biggest Kurdish leaders, Mesut Barzani went to Diyarbakır, they started feeling annoyed. They felt uneasy as Erdoğan came together with Şivan Perver and Mesut Barzani in Diyarbakır.

Because they are even afraid of the possibility of the Kurdish issue's resolution. They are scared from Erdoğan resolving the Kurdish issue. They know that Kurds are religious. They are people with royal spirits.

Kurds won't allow a word to be said against the Kaaba. However, Selahattin Demirtaş, who says that he represents the Kurds, rendered Kaaba, the holy sanctuary of Islam, equal with Taksim. He put Jerusalem, which is holy for all religions, on par with Taksim.

This mentality can only represent the People's Party, which says, “Arabs can have Kaaba, Çankaya is sufficient for us”. President Erdoğan deciphered this mentality by saying, “Arabs can have Kaaba, Taksim is sufficient for us”, in his Siirt speech.

They can only represent the Mahmut Esat Bozkurt mentality which says; “Turks are the sole masters and owners of this country. People who are not from the true Turkish lineage only have a single right in this nation; the right to be a servant, a slave. Friends and foes, even the mountains, should know that this is the reality.”

They can only represent the Cemal Gürsel mentality, which said, “Wherever you see a Kurd, spit in their faces.”

They can only represent the Kenan Evren mentality, which said, “There is no such thing as a Kurd. This is a notion created by the sound of the footsteps in the snow.”

Those names above were Turkish Kemalists, now these people are the Kurdish Kemalists.

On the occasion of the Holy Birth weeks, our Prophet is remembered as the finest in our country. Korans and Mevlit-i Şerif will be read. The biggest mass participation to the meetings to remember our Prophet is in Diyarbakır. Hundreds of thousands of people fill up the squares in Diyarbakır with the love for the Prophet.

As for Selahattin Demirtaş, he is promising to remove the Directorate of Religious Affairs, who published the Kurdish Koran, for the sake of ingratiating himself to the White Turks in Nişantaşı.

With a disrespectful manner, he is asking “Doesn't God know Kurdish?” What's the difference between this mentality and the mentality that had the prayers recited in Turkish? During the single party era, the Arabic Koran was banned and this attack directed at Islam was defended with “Doesn't God know Turkish?”

Kurds experienced much oppression. However, Kurds never experienced an oppression of having the Kaaba being insulted in their name. Via Selahattin Demirtaş, they also experienced that.