The Era of PKK, YPG, and Öcalan is Over: The Path Forward is Law and New Strategies
Is the mission of PKK and YPG complete? Yusuf İnan analyzes why the path to a "Terror-Free Turkey" lies in urgent legal reform and new strategies amidst the rise of AI warfare.
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By YUSUF INAN WISE NEWS PRESS / ANKARA , TÜRKİYE
The Era of PKK, YPG, and Öcalan is Over: The Path Forward is Law and New Strategies
Turkey is closely monitoring a new process initiated with the ideal of a "Terror-Free Turkey" at one of the most critical junctures in its recent history. The Turkish nation intends to trust the state's wisdom and give the desired strategy a chance. However, the patience of 85 million citizens is being tested by high-level statements from the DEM Party, PKK, and YPG executives that offend the public conscience.
While the insulting statements coming from the Barzani front have reached unacceptable levels, the attitude of the terrorist ringleader Abdullah Öcalan also wounds the public conscience. Even while stating that "The PKK has completed its mission," Öcalan insists on not apologizing for the babies, teachers, doctors, and engineers they have murdered. This arrogance breaks the heart of the 85 million-strong nation.
It appears that the Turkish nation is struggling to accept this process in its current form. The prospect of amnesty for the PKK's bloodstained murderers, their audacity to engage in politics in Turkey, and threatening rhetoric regarding the Turkish identity and language clauses in the Constitution create great anxiety. This situation is also reflected in the polls; reaction votes against the AK Party and MHP are on the rise.
Öcalan Has No Authority Left
The current process has revealed a very clear reality: Öcalan controls neither the PKK nor the YPG. Even the DEM Party is uncomfortable with Öcalan's ideas. This is because Öcalan's release implies the liquidation of the barons in Qandil and Syria. Therefore, they do not look favorably upon his new strategy.
To put it clearly; it does not seem possible for Turkey to bring this process to success with expired actors like Öcalan, the PKK, the YPG, and Barzani.
The rule, "If you want a movement to fade, open its path; if you want it to grow, block it," applies here as well; however, the era of these structures has now closed.
While the PKK and YPG are terror problems, they insistently try to market themselves as a "Kurdish problem." It is incompatible with the seriousness of the state to accept this imposition when everyone knows that there is no Kurdish problem in Turkey, but rather a terror problem.
The Scales of Justice and Social Fracture
The bleeding wound of the process is the blockage in the judicial system. It is a fact that the 11 judicial packages enacted so far have failed to achieve success in the ideal of a "Terror-Free Turkey." If the legal system does not undergo an urgent revision, both the state and the nation will pay the price.
Today, courthouses are overflowing. People are forced to prove their innocence. The Turkish nation is forced to give the last penny in their pockets not for bread, but to lawyers. A journalist is accused of terrorism for an article written decades ago that is not even currently published, while a citizen faces similar charges for a few words on social media. This situation severs the sense of belonging to the state and pits people against the government.
The FETÖ trials are in a similar deadlock. While FETÖ opponents are tried with FETÖ accusations, commercial rivals liquidate each other with this label. This process feeds terror instead of ending it; it turns people into enemies of the state and pushes them into the arms of terror groups. While the "Year of the Family" is emphasized, children are left without fathers and mothers, and families are torn apart. The descent of violent incidents to the primary school level is a result of this social trauma.
The solution is clear: The judicial system must start working in line with the decisions of the ECHR (European Court of Human Rights). The expressions of thought of people who have not taken up arms or resorted to violence should be evaluated within the scope of freedom of expression. This step would clear the blockage in the Turkish judiciary within a few days and turn Turkey into a predictable state of law.
Economic Deadlock and Brain Drain
The environment of lawlessness also hits the economy. Domestic and foreign investors do not invest in a country where they cannot see the future. Broad terror investigations covering 85 million people alienate the public from the AK Party government and President Erdoğan; it plays into the hands of opponents and those who want to wear down the government.
Even more painfully, millions of people are fleeing this legal and economic pressure, taking refuge in Europe and America, becoming cheap labor there. The nerve endings of the Turkish nation are being tampered with.
Ahmet Davutoğlu’s Legacy and Syria
At the root of today's squeeze lies Ahmet Davutoğlu's misguided Syria policy. This policy dragged both Turkey and the Middle East into chaos, brought Russia down to the warm seas, disrupted Turkey's demographic structure, and brought trade to the brink of extinction. The vacuum of state authority created in Syria caused the strengthening of the PKK and YPG. It is time to say stop to this chain of errors.
The War of the Future: Robot Soldiers and AI
While Turkey loses energy with internal conflicts, the world is going to a completely different place. While the US and Europe work on artificial intelligence systems; China, Russia, and Israel have covered significant distance on "robot soldiers" and AI armies.
As a strategic forecast, the following must be underlined: The US and Israel will no longer need proxies like the PKK and YPG. In an era where AI armies replace human-powered armies, these terror structures will find no support and will destroy themselves. The days when robot armies will fight—as pointed out in the Quran and Hadiths—are at the door. Turkey must catch this technological era; otherwise, it will remain helpless against the invasion of robot armies.
Conclusion: The Remedy is Law and State Wisdom
While there is an expert name on these issues like MİT (National Intelligence Organization) Chief İbrahim Kalın, pursuing wrong strategies worries patriots. The mission of the PKK, the YPG, and the DEM Party is over. Even if Öcalan were released and sent to Syria, he would not survive even a few months due to major conflicts within his own organization.
The state must separate the terror organizations from the public with sharp lines through an amendment to the anti-terror law. When the legal system starts to function, neither terror, nor the PKK, nor FETÖ will remain in Turkey. Turkey does not need a new adventure; it needs the safest known harbor, which is the Law.
Otherwise, Turkey is rapidly drifting towards a dead end. The key to reaching the shore of safety is to establish justice and reconcile the nation with the state.
Yusuf İnan
Yusuf İnan is a veteran journalist, author, and the Editor-in-Chief of Wise News Press, SehitlerOlmez.com, and Yerelgundem.com. He specializes in strategic and political analysis, focusing on Türkiye and global affairs.*
