ISIL and PKK

The perpetrator of the massacre on Istanbul's ?stiklal Avenue this weekend turned out to be from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).

My heart went out, the most, for two-and-a-half-year-old Asya Ba?aran, who now is fighting for her life with her tiny body in the intensive care unit. Her mother, father and 7-year-old sister Elçin were also injured, but thank God, they are not in critical condition. I hope so much that little Asya will also survive. 

Killing even babies is a form of violence that we have seen since the first attacks of the outlawed Kurdistan Worker's Party (PKK), in 1984.   

In terms of the destruction psychology and violence they use, there is no difference between the PKK, ISIL and the People's Liberation Party-Front of Turkey (THKP-C). 

I can almost hear the objection of Kurdish nationalists who sympathize with the PKK. They would argue the liberation of the Kurdish people. But then another would argue the liberation of the Muslims; they can talk about the Israeli atrocities in Gaza. As a matter of fact, the suicide bomber on ?stiklal blew himself up after following innocent Israeli tourists visiting our country. 

The marginal leftist terrorists, on the other hand, are saying that they are "fighting imperialism."   

When the blood of innocent people, children and young lovers are shed, then the color of "the spell" called either by "the cause" or "the revolution" does not change the brutality. For this reason, it is extremely important that violence should be rejected in principle. Of course, the ideological programming that I call "the spell" is also very important. 

The ISIL members who have been caught were all from Turkey. "Sleeping ISIL cells" are mentioned.