Right now, IS is brutally attacking Kobane, the last Kurdish settlement outside Turkish borders. Probably it has already fallen. This only proves that Turkey is not even interested in attacking IS terrorists at all. As estimated, the government wants them to slaughter Kurds while our army targets Assad.
From the beginning of the week, Kurds have been protesting on the streets. Right now it is known that 16 protesters have been killed. Rumor is that the police is instigating nationalists to fight them. Hezbollah and Huda-Par (an extremist religious political party that was only recently formed in Turkey) supporters were also seen attacking Kurds on the streets. Kurdish politicians are calling former Gezi protesters to step up and lend their support. Yet the majority of those of Gezi are not willing. People still remember how Kurds appeared with PKK flags to undermine Gezi and also withdrew from streets upon order of their imprisoned leader.
Things really look terrible. On one hand, we have people who are almost totally indifferent or sometimes hostile towards the Kurdish protesters. And on the other hand, we have the IS terror which will probably be crawling its way into Turkey. I am sure that once they are done with Kobane, they will march into Eastern Turkey to attack the local Kurdish population and next thing you know, they will be slaughtering people who they might declare infidels.
It is obvious that our government is not going to be explicitly aggresive towards them. And it is also known that IS terrorists are based all around Turkey as a contingency plan, so that they might terrorize cities like İstanbul and Ankara in case of being attacked.
I just wish it hadn't taken Kurds more than a decade to finally see that they had been deceived by the government all along. I wish they hadn't backed these fanatics and their iron grasp of power so long. I wish it hadn't been necessary for them to get killed to eventually see their mistake. But wishes don't exist only in an ideal world I guess.
