How can you say Nov 1 was a coup?

It is as if the Kandil Mountains, the logistical and administrative base of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), was not deadly afraid of unarmed politics gaining power? 

As if the PKK did not regard the results of the June 7 election as a threat to its existence? 

As if those in the mountains were not the most annoyed ones that the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) gained 13 percent of the votes in June, proving the armed struggle method meaningless?

As if it was not the Kurdistan Communities' Union (KCK) staff who scolded HDP Co-Chair Selahattin Demirta? for campaigning by promising to bring peace, saying Demirta? did not have the authority to call for a truce to the PKK ?  

As if the PKK did not take credit for the June 7 results? As if it did not reach out and grab the 13 percent victory, claiming there were no "borrowed" votes.

As if the PKK did not seize the HDP's Nov. 1 election campaign, panicked by the prospect of Demirta? becoming too popular.

As if the acts of the PKK did not prompt the loss of at least 1 million votes that came to the HDP on June 7. 

As if it was not the PKK that struck a blow to the outcome of June 7 with arms, terror and bullying? 

As if it did not cast a shadow over the democratic race? 

As if it did not knock down the ballot box ? 

As if it was not the one that hit out at the HDP and grasped its votes?

As if the poor performance of the HDP on Nov. 1 was not the result of the KCK's strategy of torching cities in the name of the "democratic autonomy" fantasy? 

Now, it is seriously choosing to issue a statement signed by co-chair of KCK, including terms such as "coup d'état," hiding its responsibility for contributing to the...