Tent for a tent in Brussels

We had two pains, both of which brought Turkey into a head-on collision with its allies. 

One of them is the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) tent incident at the EU capital of Brussels that came like a stab at a time when our relations were improving. 

The other one is the Democratic Union Party (PYD) that was like a black cat between us and the U.S. 
With both of them, we forced our allies to make a precise choice; they had to choose us or a bloody terror organization. 

In the end, even though we were absolutely right, somehow we faced the risk of losing our strategic allies to a terror organization. Indeed, they did not choose anybody over us but they did not opt for our theses either. 
They did not abandon PYD, the tent or us. Interests did not overlap; the methods and dynamics did not coincide. 

No matter what we did or said, we were unable to convince Brussels to not allow the PKK again to erect a tent, and the U.S. that the PYD was exactly like the PKK, a downright terror organization.  

The removed tents were erected again and the U.S. insisted on not identifying the PYD with the PKK. While it called one a terror organization it resisted calling the other the same. 

Ankara was angry and this anger made our relations worse. We were disappointed but our efforts went nowhere. 

We were isolated, weakened and defeated. The PKK was about to succeed in poisoning our already strained relationships with the EU and the U.S. 

Two news stories the other day showed that we were no longer acting emotionally. First, one was when Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavu?o?lu spoke to the Voice of America radio and declared that because we thought differently than the U.S. regard?ng the PYD, it did not mean we...