Religionism vs Piety & Kurdism vs Kurdishness

Peace!

In light of my own personal journey of transformation during the aftermath of the atrocities which the members of the HİZMET (Gulen) MOVEMENT have been exposed to in Turkey, I published an article on my personal blog(https://kamuoyuaydinlatma.blogspot.com) on November 6, 2024, in which I recounted those atrocities and more.

Since I believe it still remains relevant, I would like to share it here with you again. 

I hope you read it and that it serves a good purpose. 

I would like to begin my article asking two questions : 

- Why do some people in Turkiye stray into religionist fanaticism while they can easily and simply be pious?

- Why do some people in Turkiye stray into Kurdist separatism while they can easily and simply be Kurds?

The addressees of these thorny questions and of this rather lengthy article of mine are, FIRST AND FOREMOST, 

• THE PIEOUS PEOPLE CAUGHT IN THE GRIP OF RELIGIONIST FANATICISM and 
• THE KURDS CAUGHT IN THE GRIP OF SEPARATIST KURDISM. 

I wish my pieous brothers and sisters and my Kurdish brothers and sisters could understand me and my stance as much as I understand them... 

They will hopefully understand me, after what I am about to write here and now...

Firstly, I am a Turk, born in Manisa, Turkiye, in 1956. 

My parents and relatives are Sunni and Hanafi. 

Well, so am I!

My late father was a sincere disciple of Bediüzzaman Said Nursi. 

During my childhood in the 1960s, our home in Manisa was a home where Risale-i Nur (Epistles of Light) books of Said Nursi were being intensively read. 

In those years, in our home and in homes of other Risale-i Nur disciples (i.e., followers of Said Nursi!), they always used to read the Risales (the Epistles) which were handwritten in Ottoman Turkish (with Arabic letters), duplicated and bound. 

When I was in the third grade of elementary school, my father passed away. 

I can say that I grew up in Manisa under the care and custody of our relatives and my father's fellow disciples (the Said Nursi followers!). 

Decades after my father's death, Ismail Hakkı Zeyrek, an old Nur disciple from Manisa and a close friend of my late father, told me that he and my father had visited Said Nursi in Barla township of Isparta, and had the honor of receiving his prays of blessings.

After primary school, I studied the Quran and Arabic for one year at the Karaköy Quran Course in Manisa, which was run by the Nurcu movement at the time, and I later enrolled and studied at the Imam Hatip High School. 

After graduating from high school, I studied at and graduated from the Faculty of Economics. 

Throughout my student and youth years, I was always with the Risale-i Nur disciples. 

And after Fethullah Gulen Hoca became known in Izmir and environs, I became involved always in the Hizmet (Gulen) Movement until I was forced to leave my homeland in October 2017 due to my affiliation with FETÖ/PDY (Fethullahist Terrorist Organization/Parallel State Structure) and came to Switzerland. 

As of today, I am 68 years old and have been a political refugee in Switzerland for almost 8 years!

Having been influenced by the religious (RELIGIONIST in fact) circles in which I was born, raised, grew up, and educated, throughout my entire life, I never liked Atatürk; on the contrary, I always hated him. 

Because Said Nursi, all his followers, the Süleymancis (the followers of Suleyman Hilmi Tunahan), the followers of Tariqat sheikhs, the political Islamists, “those 'ist's and 'ism's", and etc., always insulted Atatürk, calling him “the antichrist, the  atheist, the enemy of religion, and so on and so forth”, I, too, being under their influence, could never love Atatürk. 

I always looked at the CHP (People's Republican Party), its members, the secularists, and the Atatürkists/Kemalists with hatred. 

I never liked the republican regime of Turkiye either. 

I never enjoyed or celebrated any of the Turkish national holidays, especially the Republic Day on October 29, the Youth & Sports Day on May 19, the Children’s Day on April 23, and so on. 

I perceived all the revolutions and reforms Atatürk made as hostility towards Islam. 

I can even say that I never embraced the Republic of Turkiye, the country of which I have been a citizen, solely because of these considerations, and I always lived considering myself as the STEPCHILD of this state. 

I always looked coldly upon Atatürk's revolutions, reforms and the State’s secular regime. 

I disliked the Kemalist regime's frequent banning and closure of all the religious organizations and communities, the closure of Fethullah Gülen's Hizmet Movement, and the closure of political islamist Necmeddin Erbakan's National Vision parties. banning the Risale-i Nur books, frequently shutting down all other religious communities, barely tolerating political islamist Necmeddin Erbakan's premiership even for one year, and always despising and looking down on present day’s AKP (Justice & Development Party) founders (Receb Tayyib Erdoğan & his team) who are Necmeddin Erbakan's protégés. 

I have always found it strange and unconceivable that the regime of the Turkish Republic distrusts all these Islamist and political Islamist (RELIGIONIST in fact) communities, organizations and etc. 

In short, I have always lived at odds with the Turkish state and its regime. 

In October 2017, on the verge of being arrested due my links to FETÖ/PDY, I left my homeland and came to Greece first, and then from there came to Switzerland. 

While in my homeland, I always welcomed the imprisonment of Atatürkist officers, generals, and intellectuals through the Balyoz, Ergenekon, and other investigation cases carried out by members of the Hizmet Movement in the police and judiciary and in close co-operation and harmony (!) with Erdogan’s ruling Ak Parti (AKP). 

On December 17-25, 2013, I again welcomed and defended the attempts by Hizmet members in the police and judiciary to prepare corruption and theft files, but this time, against Erdoğan himself, his family, his ministers and bureaucrats, and to convict all of them. 

During the crisis between Erdogan’s AKP and Hizmet Movement over the future and fate of private tutoring centers owned and operated by the Hizmet Movement and the subsequent controversial fights and brawls between Erdogan’s AKP and the movement, I always sided with Hizmet and always defended Hizmet. 

We were living in Istanbul during the attempted coup on July 15, 2016. 

From those heated days of the failed coup attempt until I left the country in October 2017, I always believed that Hizmet Movement was not responsible for this unsuccessful uprising and that it was innocent. 

I never cast any aspersions on the movement. 

HOWEVER ;

After coming to Switzerland, I began to think and ponder and worry about ;

• the Hizmet Movement-focused incidents which were happening in my homeland,
• the atrocities towards the Hizmet movement members, 
• the fates of tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands of Hizmet-affiliated bureaucrats in the strategic defense, security, judiciary, and other state bureaucracies who were being fired from their jobs, arrested and put in prisons, 
• and the fates of their families and children who were being subjected to horrific oppressions, tortures, and murders. 

And I began to ask myself, "WHY were all these atrocities inflicted upon the Hizmet Movement and its members?”

Why? Why? Why…?

I began to ASK THESE QUESTIONS INSISTENTLY AND SEARCH FOR THE ANSWERS. 

I asked myself these "why, why, why..." questions, and I also asked them to other oppressed and victimized Hizmet members I met here in Switzerland, who had been forced to leave their homeland and came here like myself...

Since I had almost no previous information or news about the background and inner workings of what was happening in my homeland, I couldn't find proper and satisfying answers to my questions. 

The other Hizmet-affiliated migrants I directed questions couldn't give me satisfactory answers either. 

Thus, I went through a VERY INTENSE AND PAINFUL process of ASKING, INVESTIGATING, QUESTIONING, READING, LISTENING, RESEARCHING, DOUBTING, and OBJECTING in Switzerland for about two years. 

I shared these questions with other Hizmet-affiliated migrants I met during this process, who had shared the same destiny like me and had come not only to Switzerland but also to other European countries and the US/Canada, and I asked them for answers. 

However, none of those people I met and spoke with could make sense of the injustices and oppressions to which the Hizmet Movement and they themselves were subjected in Turkiye. 

They all insisted that they themselves, their aGabeys (the Big Brothers, i.e., members of the higher echelons in the movement), the Movement itself, and of course, and above all, Fethullah Gulen Hodja were innocent. 

Many of them do still comfort themselves with the same feelings, thoughts and empty consolations. 

During this painful questioning process of mine, I started reading and listening to the late Prof. Dr. Yaşar Nuri Öztürk. 

And, during the 17 months we spent in refugee camps until our asylum request was accepted in Switzerland, I met and befriended Alevis, atheists, and Kurds, both PKK members and non-PKK members, who, like me, had come from Turkey and applied for political asylum. 

Thank God, I still maintain friendships with my Alevi, atheist, and Kurdish friends, both PKK members and non-PKK members. 

As I mentioned above, I grew up in religious (RELIGIONIST in fact) circles from childhood onward, received religious (RELIGIONIST) education and upbringing, and tried to live a so-called pieous (!) life. 

This effort of mine still continues at full speed, thank God. 

As I read and listened to Yaşar Nuri Öztürk, I REALIZED that the religion I had learned until this age and tried to live by was full of mistakes, and that my religious knowledge was largely wrong and distorted😞😞😞

As I kept reading and listening to Yaşar Nuri Öztürk, I have come to understand and know that there were two types of religion (Islam) :

- the FABRICATED RELIGION, 

and

- the REVEALED RELIGION. 

What was the REVEALED RELIGION, and what happened to it later?

The REVEALED RELIGION is the religion revealed to Prophet Muhammad in the Quran. 

Until the day of his passing away, Prophet Muhammad both lived this true Islam as outlined in the Quran and taught it to his companions, the first Muslims. 

After his death, during the caliphates of Abu Bakr, Umar, Uthman, and Ali, that is, during their terms of state presidency, these first Muslims endeavored to live according to the Islam they had learned from Prophet Muhammad as best they could. 

However, with the caliphate (state presidency) of the third caliph, Uthman, certain political disputes, disagreements, and even fights began to emerge in this early Muslim community. 

And, during the caliphate (state presidency) of Ali, the fourth and LAST CALIPH, these disagreements grew, deepened, and everything went off the rails. 

Finally, Muawiya, with his DEVILISH CUNNING and underhanded tactics, took the caliphate from Ali and became caliph (!) himself. 

Soon after, he proclaimed himself king and forced the Muslim leaders of the community to pledge allegiance (bey’at) to him through the threat of the sword and death.

He also appointed his son Yazid (Yazid I) as his heir apparent to become king after him. 

Thus, he transformed Islamic governance from caliphate (STATE PRESIDENCY) to kingship, that is, to a DYNASTY passed down from father to son. 

Muawiya and his Umayyad clan quickly corrupted, distorted, degenerated, and reversed Islam, changing it beyond recognition from the Islam existed in the Quran and taught by the Prophet Muhammad to his companions. 

These cursed Umayyads ruled for approximately 90 years. 

After them, the Abbasids overthrew the Umayyads, established their own dynasty, and ruled the Muslims for approximately 200 years. 

After the Abbasids, many other Muslim dynasties were established. 

The Fatimids, the Umayyads of Andalusia, the Ayyubids, the Safavids, the Ghaznavids, the Mughals, the Seljuks, and finally the Ottomans...

Started by Muawiya and lasted up until the fall of Ottomans, the Muslim ummah all around the world was governed almost continuously for over 1300 years by dynasties, sultans, kings, padshahs, and emperors. 

And throughout these long centuries, the TRUE RELIGION REVEALED IN THE QUR'AN was CORRUPTED, DISTORTED, AND DEGENERATED.

And the religion that has come down to us today has become, since long, a FAKE AND FABRICATED RELIGION. 

So, by reading and listening to Yaşar Nuri Öztürk during my personal intense and painful process of questioning, inquiring, and researching, I became aware of THIS TERRIBLE DECAY IN OUR RELIGION. 

For the last 4-5 years, I have been re-inventing and re-learning my religion. 

Thus, I FORMATTED, I mean I completely ERASED everything I had learned about Islam up until my age of 61, never to return again. 

And now, by reading and listening to Yaşar Nuri Öztürk, I am striving to live the TRUE ISLAM, that is, the ISLAM IN THE QURAN. 

Praise be to Allah, who has granted me this opportunity of conversion from the FABRICATED and FAKE RELIGION to the REVEALED TRUE RELIGION in my twilight years...

By starting to learn more and more about the Islam in Quran from late Yaşar Nuri Öztürk, I also began to UNDERSTAND Mustafa Kemal Atatürk properly!

I have come to understand that Atatürk was not, as we were taught and indoctrinated, "a godless person, an enemy of religion, a heretic, an apostate, the antichrist and etc." 

I have also come to understand that Ataturk had a deep love and respect for the true religion of Islam. 

Muslims have, for centuries:

- LIVED A FABRICATED RELIGION, 

- AND THAT IS WHY THEY REGRESSED, and

- CONSEQUENTLY ALMOST ALL ISLAMIC COUNTRIES WERE INVADED AND COLONIZED BY CRUSADER IMPERIALIST WESTERN COUNTRIES. 

 I realized that Atatürk understood all these bitter truths very well. 

That is why, he ;

• realized all those revolutions and reforms, 
• had the prominent scholar of Islam Elmalılı Hamdi Yazır write an excellent QURANIC EXEGESIS (TAFSIR) in 9-large volumes, and
• did many other vitally necessary and important and rightfull things, in order to:
• EMANCIPATE US MUSLIMS FROM THE YOKE OF THIS FABRICATED RELIGION, and
• ENABLE US LEARN AND LIVE THE TRUE RELIGION REVEALED IN THE QURAN. 

 

While reading and listening to Yaşar Nuri Öztürk, I also REFRESHED my knowledge of our recent national history of approximately 100 years, by exclusively re-studying ;

• the World War I,
• the subsequent periods of 
• the Defense of Rights, 
• the National Struggle, 
• the War of Independence, and
• the founding of the Turkish Republic. 

I refreshed my knowledge on ;

- HOW ANATOLIA, INCLUDING ISTANBUL, WAS INVADED BY CRUSADER IMPERIALIST WESTERNERS, 

- HOW IZMIR AND THE AEGEAN REGION WERE INVADED BY THE GREEKS, 

- how the imperialists tried to establish ARMENIA in the east,

- and KURDISTAN in the southeast of Anatolia,

- what treacheries the crusader imperialists committed in Anatolia,

- and how strongly they were determined to not to leave Anatolia to us the Muslim Turks, Kurds, and so on, AFTER THE OFFICIAL ENDING OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE WITH THE ARMISTICE OF MONDROS. 

I remembered ;

• how our War of Independence was won, 
• how Mustafa Kemal and his close associates fought selflessly throughout this war. 

I remembered the treacheries committed by the last Ottoman Sultan Vahiduddin and his Grand Vizier Damad Ferid Pasha together with many fanatical religionist supporters of the sultanate regime, aimed to prevent the victory of our War of Independence,. 

I remembered how, during the most difficult and critical times of the Turkish National Struggle and the War of Independence, the crusader imperialists, England, the USA, and France armed Armenians and Kurds in eastern and southeastern Anatolia and incited them against the Turkish national army, and especially inciting the Kurds to revolt under the deceptive slogans of "We want Sharia law" and "We want an independent Kurdistan," sparking nearly 25 REBELLIONS AND UPRISINGS. 

I remembered how those imperialists made Muslims fight and kill each other in these armed rebellions, spilling the blood of brothers. 

DESPITE ALL THESE INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL BETRAYALS AND TREACHERIES, even after our National Struggle and War of Independence ended in victory and the Republic of Turkey was established, I remembered that the same crusading imperialists, especially in eastern Anatolia, instigated the KURDISH REBELLIONS and the RELIGIONISTS (the REACTIONARIES) to destroy/bring down the newly founded Turkish Republic. 

I don't want to prolong my words any further. But one must know the following truth very, very well. 

The Republic of Turkiye was not established as easily and effortlessly as it is often thought by some. 

We should never forget what sacrifices were made by our forefathers to establish this state. 

And, unfortunately, both during the years of the National Struggle and the War of Independence, and during the early years of the Republic, the REACTIONARIES (the dynasticist religionist bigots) threatened to turn our Republic back into a monarchy, and SEPARATIST KURDISH ELEMENTS threatened to divide our country. 

That is why, this country never had a moment's peace since the foundation of the republic. 

From the very beginning, the Republic of Turkiye has always felt these two threats (RELIGIONIST REACTIONARYISM AND KURDISH SEPARATISM) and therefore, WHETHER WE LIKE IT OR NOT, the Turkish state has NEVER TRUSTED the dynasticist religionists (reactionaries) and the separatist Kurdist elements. 

The main culprits of this historical distrust are the reactionaries and the separatist Kurdists themselves. 

I must criticize, by the way, the religious (that is, the religionist) people of the country as well. 

During the transition process from the collapsed and occupied Ottoman Empire to the Republic of Turkiye, and during the years of the Defense of Rights, the National Struggle, and the War of Independence, many well known and publicly respected religious figures in our country, as hadjieffendis, hodjaeffendis, sheikhs, religious scholars and etc., YES, they stood alongside Mustafa Kemal and his comrades-in-arms, SUPPORTED them, and encouraged our nation to achieve victory in our comprehensive struggle for independence. 

However, after victory and full independence were achieved and the Republic was established, just as Mustafa Kemal's close comrades-in-arms abandoned him and distanced themselves from him, and some even formed a front of opposition against him, the vast majority of those respected figures—the Hadjieffendis, Hodjaeffendis, Sheikhs, religious scholars, and others—who had previously stood by him and spared no support, distanced themselves from Mustafa Kemal and abandoned him. 

Many of them became his opponents and even his enemies. 

It was a period when the newly established Republic needed to be put on its track, stabilized, and rapidly rescued from the state of devastation, destruction, backwardness, poverty, and deprivation which our country had suffered throughout the long Ottoman centuries and during the years of World War I and the War of Independence. 

It was a time when no efforts to develop and modernize the country in every field would be spared, and when Atatürk was in great need of their services, contributions and support in rapidly industrializing the country in every field. 

In other words, during a period when Atatürk was in great need of their services, contributions and support, THEY ABANDONED HIM AND LEFT HIM ALONE, USING THE SILLY, ABSURD, NONSENSICAL, AND EMPTY EXCUSES THAT ORIGINATED FROM THE FAKE MUAVİYE RELIGION THEY HAD BEEN PROMOTING & PROPAGATING EVER SINCE. 

NATURE ABOYS NO VOID...!

Thus, all sorts of atheists, enemies of religion, Freemasons, Sabbataists, and unsavory characters of unknown origin surrounded the noble man Atatürk. 

Lest we forget that there are many patriotic intellectuals who are firmly convinced that Atatürk was slowly made ill by these unsavory characters and deliberately killed through incorrect medical treatment during his illness. 

Atatürk needed precisely the support of such people during this period: the Hadjieffendis, Hodjaeffendis, Sheikhs, religious scholars and so on. 

He expected them to assist him in matters of state and the nation. 

Unfortunately, this did not happen. 

Let us also remember that in later years, many so-called religious people regretfully mentioned in their memoirs that they did not help Atatürk during this most critical period. 

Matter of factly, if those so-called pious individuals, religious scholars, sheikhs and etc., had stood by Atatürk, supported him, and not forced him to work with all kinds of atheists, enemies of religion, Freemasons, Sabbateans, and unsavory characters of unknown origin, the country would not be in such a pitiful state today. 

Ismet Pasha (Inonu), despite all his good intentions, personal honesty, and integrity, neglected and did not carry out both

- the IDEAL OF TRANSITIONING the RELIGION FROM A FABRICATED ONE TO THE TRUE ONE REVEALED IN THE QURAN, and

- the IDEAL OF FULL INDEPENDENCE,

of Ataturk after his death. 

İsmet Pasha, under the influence of Adnan Menderes and other landowners who had similar mandate-inclined mentality, CLOSED THE VILLAGE INSTITUTES, aligned himself with the crusading imperialist USA, and turned a blind eye to the USA’s reorganizing our National Defense and National Education away from their national identities and in line with its own imperial ambitions...

At a time when Istanbul was occupied by the victorious powers of World War I and the idea of accepting the mandate of one of the occupying powers was seriously considered and advocated by some Turkish government officials and intellectuals, ISMET PASHA (Inonu) who was then in Istanbul, ALSO SUPPORTED THE IDEA OF SUCH A MANDATE RULE. 

After Atatürk's death, I believe that ISMET PAŞA'S OLD TENDENCY TOWARD ACCEPTING THE USA MANDATE RULE RESURFACED and that, in the difficult global circumstances following World War II, he felt the weakness for seeking refuge in the Western Alliance (NATO) which was a new version of mandate rule, and for this reason invited the US to our country. 

To correctly understand and evaluate Ismet Pasha’s and the CHP’s (Republican People's Party’s) stance after Atatürk, I RECOMMEND reading Yaşar Nuri Öztürk's small-sized but highly enlightening book titled "THE CHP AFTER ATATÜRK: THE ADVENTURE OF MISREADING THE ERA." 

It is my sincere belief that the background of the Turkish Republic’s constant focus on 

- REACTIONARYISM (FANATIC RELIGIONISM) AND 

- KURDIST SEPARATISM 

as the two most important 

INTERNAL THREATS lies in the facts that ;

• those individuals with titles such as Hadjieffendis, Hodjaeffendis, Sheikhs, religious scholars and etc., left Atatürk alone during the early years of the Republic, when he needed them and their support most. Not only that, but these fanatic religionists also constantly opposed his revolutions and reforms and even developed hostile attitudes towards him and his revolutions and reforms. And 
• Kurdists (not all but a small fraction of the Kurds) fell prey to the propaganda of the imperialist Western crusaders and resorted to Kurdist separatism. 

We musn’t fail to remember that the representatives of the religion, or rather who are wrongly believed to be so, were, unfortunately, not and still are not representatives of the TRUE RELIGION OF ISLAM REVEALED IN THE QURAN, but they were and still are only THE ORDINARY PROPAGANDISTS OF THE FAKE AND FABRICATED MUAVIYE RELIGION.

They COULD NOT UNDERSTAND ATATÜRK'S SINCERITY and SERIOUSNESS in context OF INTRODUCING THE NATION WITH THE TRUE RELIGION IN QUR’AN. 

Furthermore, they BECAME ENEMIES of him and CONSTANTLY POSED A THREAT to his revolutions and reforms and the system he established. 

The Kurdists (not Kurds), too, attempted to divide the country in line with imperialists’ ambitions, even though there was no need for it at all. 

And, due to the fact that we (the Hizmet members together with members of all other political/apolitical islamic organizations) are followers of these ORDINARY PROPAGANDISTS OF THE FAKE and FABRICATED MUAVİYE RELIGION (i.e., not authentical Islam in Qur’an), we have been the constant SUBJECT and TARGET of the Turkish Republic's THREAT PERCEPTIONS. 

This is the general OUTLINE of the past and present situation in Turkiye. 

I must immediately state (admit) that I, too, LIVED IN REACTIONARY CIRCLES from my childhood onward and TOOK MY PLACE AMONG THE REACTIONARIES. 

I realized, albeit too late, the reason why the Hizmet Movement, which I had loved and been a member of for decades, could not inspire confidence in the Turkish Republic. 

Fethullah Gulen Hodja, just like his beloved mentor Said Nursi, never embraced Mustafa Kemal and his revolutions and reforms, for he too, was a common propagandist of the fake and fabricated religion of Muawiya, just like Said Nursi. 

For decades, Fethullah Gulen organized covert staffing activities in order to infiltrate and penetrate into the very core and take over all critical bureaucracies and ministries, especially Defense, Internal Security, Gendarmerie, Intelligence and Judiciary of the Turkish state apparatus. 

And, in the final stretch of his decades-long personal quest and ambition to achieve this goal, he voluntarily or involuntarily sacrificed the members, supporters, and sympathizers of the Hizmet Movement, which had grown to hundreds of thousands, even more, and most of whom were completely unaware of anything. 

He saw no problem in sacrificing them for the sake of imperial ambitions of the crusading imperialist USA targeting our country. 😞…

And this Fethullah Gülen, who could have shed light on all this chaos caused by him and his close friends of common destiny in higher echelons of his movement while he was alive, left this world without saying a word and took all his secrets with him to the hereafter. 

What can we say😞😞😞…?

I noticed, learned, and understood all these painfully bitter truths during my painful process of introspection, self-criticism, questioning, and investigation ONLY AFTERmy forced move to Switzerland.

Said Nursi and his followers, all Sufi sheikhs, Islamists, political Islamists, right-wing/conservative/religionist politicians since the time of Adnan Menderes, including Necmeddin Erbakan and his unethical and corrupt apprentice Receb Tayyib Erdoğan, the Nurcus, the Süleymancis, Fethullah Gülen, and similar religionist fanatics have always and forever been a REACTIONARY THREAT to the Turkish state, and were thus NEVER TRUSTED. 

Similarly and just like the REACTIONARY THREAT, all Kurdist elements engaged in Kurdist separatism did not inspire CONFIDENCE in the Republic of Turkey and therefore were NEVER TRUSTED. 

The situation is still the same today. 

Both the religionist fundamentalists and Kurdist separatists still do not inspire confidence in Turkish state, and the state does not trust them. 

We must learn all these painful truths, my dear brother. 

The PKK's ultimate goal is not to secure Kurdish humanitarian RIGHTS, Kurdish LANGUAGE, Kurdish CULTURE, Kurdish TRADITIONS and etc., but its ultimate goal is simply to divide Turkey and establish an independent Kurdistan. 

If this threat of separatism did not exist, the Kurdish language and similar humanitarian and cultural issues would be resolved with the ease of pulling a hair from butter. 

It can still be resolved easily…

It doesn't matter what you say or how you assess it, but PKK is a voluntary pawn and puppet and subcontractor of the imperialist crusading West and of the ZIONIST ISRAEL, the latter of which has made acquisition of the so-called and imaginary Promised Land its ultimate goal. 

We all need to see through this dirty and bloody game. 

We all have to come to our senses. 

I am not a Turkist, an Atatürkist, a Kemalist or anything similar, nor am I someone who sanctifies the STATE. 

I am only and solely a QUR’ANIST AND RATIONALIST MUSLIM OF Turkish ethnical origin. 

However; 

I put great value to the Turkish sayings, 

• "If the matter at hand is the homeland, then everything else is secondary." 

and 

• "Either the state prevails or the ravens feast on our corpses." 

I can understand the IMPERIAL AMBITIONS AND INTENTIONS of the imperialist crusading West and the ZIONIST AMBITIONS AND INTENTIONS of ISRAEL towards our country. 

You can understand it too, and please do understand it...!

As long as Muslim Kurds support the separatist PKK, this crisis will not end. 

As long as the Kurdist separatists do not give up their pipe dream of an independent Kurdistan, there will be no peace and tranquility in the country. 

They say “all great minds think alike”

They are indeed rightful. 

We MUST NOT ALLOW any internal or external power or threat to DESTROY AND DIVIDE the Republic of Turkiye. 

WE MUST ALSO WARN THOSE WHO WANT TO DIVIDE US TO BE CAREFUL. 

We must remind them to abandon this ignorance and this lack of awareness and wisdom. 

Why all this noise and commotion, my dear brother, while we can live together as brothers and sisters in peace and harmony?

With all its rights and wrongs, these are what I think as of now.

Abdullah Erdemli

Lucerne - Switzerland