The investigation against Hürriyet: Leaping 15 years backward

Turkey has been conducting a ?resolution process? since the end of 2012 with the jailed leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers? Party (PKK), Abdullah Öcalan, to end PKK terror. 

It is not much of a secret that the PKK unwillingly participated in this process and the ongoing negotiations; the process was carried on depending on Öcalan?s power over the organization and with the contribution of the public support that formed in time. 

First the PKK broke its withdrawal pledge and then it threatened, at every opportunity, to end the resolution process. It committed murders in the middle of streets, repeatedly rehearsing the ending of the process; moreover it incited street incidents last year on Oct. 6, 7 and 8, causing the death of more than 50 people and in the end, as we all know, succeeded in ending the process with violent terror acts. 

Turkey?s loss of life since the beginning of July, with martyrs and civilians killed, has exceeded 100; the loss of life in the PKK is reported to be in ?the thousands? as pronounced by top officials. 

Turkey is going through this intense terror in an environment of political instability and political uncertainty before the Nov. 1 general elections. For this reason, fighting terror has overlapped with election campaigns and political discourses.

So much so that criticizing the method or the execution style of fighting terror, to voice your yearning for peace, or even encouraging political representatives of the Kurdish political movement to be effective on the PKK and call on them for peace have all suddenly started being called ?supporting terror? in the country. The Justice and Development Party (Ak Party) propaganda machine is doing this. 

We, journalists, unfortunately have...