Before lynching the lieutenant colonel...

What would you do? How would you behave? Was it abnormal for someone who lost his 32-year-old younger brother in a terrorist attack to cry and ask why he was killed? Was it abnormal for him to question what has changed in Turkey that those who were boasting about the "peace process" or the "Kurdish opening" were all starting to talk about "war to the end?" Would it matter whether you were a civilian or a lieutenant colonel to question what changed in this country that the "architect" of the peace process has become the "funeral organizer" of the very same process? Would it matter whether your younger brother was a captain in the military or a construction engineer, a journalist or an academic?

"An ember burns where it falls," Turks often say, commenting on the deep grief a family suffers after losing a beloved one. Indeed, it is true. Even if an advanced aged member of our family walks to eternity, don't we feel an ember burning deep in our hearts? 

This society has had embers burning in its heart for the past forty years. Over 35,000 beloved sons, daughters of all ages, mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers brutally and have mercilessly fallen victim to separatist terrorism, vanished to eternity, leaving a fire in our hearts. Despite all our skepticism and indeed very strong criticisms against its ambiguous character as well as the strong distrust in the sincerity of both the Justice and Development Party (AKP) and the separatist gang, the majority of this nation wished for its success from the deepest corner of their hearts.

Indeed, if Turkey is to find a civilian way out of this worst problem in its republican history, what else could it do other than seeking dialogue of some sort? That was why the bans, prohibitions and party closures did...