PKK leaving the HDP in an impossible situation

The main enemy of the pro-Kurdish People?s Democratic Party?s (HDP) turns out to be the outlawed Kurdistan Workers? Party (PKK). This group is proving its credentials as a terrorist organization once again, and seems more than ready to douse the fire with more petrol in the hope of benefiting from the conflagration.  

With every report of soldiers or policemen killed by the PKK, we have cases of innocent Kurds in central and western Turkey coming under attack by what can only be characterized as incensed nationalist lynching mobs out for ?Kurdish blood.? Meanwhile, HDP offices across the country are coming under attack. None of this perturbs the PKK though.  

President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an and the Justice and Development Party (AKP) clearly want to push the HDP below the electoral threshold, and are accused of actively working for this by underhand means in the lead-up to early elections in November. Matters have come to such a head now that if they want, they can hold back on this and let the PKK do the rest. 

What is also becoming clearer is that the PKK is not considering the political, social and economic welfare of the Kurdish people. It is pursuing its private agenda at the expense of Kurds. Turkey has proved it is a country where a pro-Kurdish party can pass the 10 percent electoral threshold and send as many deputies to parliament as the right-wing Nationalist Movement Party (MHP). 

It has proved that a prominent Kurdish politician from the HDP, namely Selahattin Demirta?, can run for the office of Turkish president, and garner sympathy among Turks for the responsible manner in which he ran his campaign. No one in their right mind will claim that Kurdish rights have been respected to the full in this country, of course.