Turkey's test with fire

Turkey is facing its biggest threat since after World War I.

Some might think this is a too ambitious statement. But it is not. 

There was a similar picture when the war was lost and Anatolia and Thrace were to be shared in pieces.

At that time in history, thanks to the struggle of this people and the contribution of several external factors, we succeeded in living together without being dissolved and we had our state.

Yes, we did have problems with this state. We have lived in a country where Alevis, Kurds, Socialists and Muslims have been oppressed.

Most of us were not even aware of it, as we have a notorious saying that goes "Long live the snake that does not touch me."

But let's not forget that we have not lived through an internal war in this country.

We did suffer pains and we had to bow down but we did not kill each other; we did not burn houses, we were not subjected to mass ethnic cleansing.

The outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) is after self-governance.

Those living in Bodrum should govern Bodrum themselves. So should the ones living in Antalya or Cizre or Diyarbak?r. And let's not forget those in Yozgat, Rize and Trabzon.

Several "self-governaning" regions can be set up.

If we have faith in local governance and if we agree that this is real democracy, then it can happen.
But the "self-governance" the PKK is talking about is different than that.

If we know for this geography and those living in this geography, there will be only one solution to that: ethnic or sectarian cleansing.

A country of freedoms would never come out of that.

While part of the country will suffer under the PKK'S Stalin/Qaddafi-style administration,...