According to a good number of foreign media outlets, Turkey did not find it enough to bomb the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) in northern Syria following its suicide bomb attack in Suruç, but had the idea and decided to bomb PKK positions in the Qandil Mountains in northern Iraq as well. None of the reports mention that the PKK killed one soldier in Adıyaman province two hours after ISIS's attack, or that it broke into the home of two police officers the next morning and shot them dead while they were sleeping, or that they killed two civilians in front of their families in Istanbul and Adana on the same day. Turkey started to bomb the PKK in the Qandil Mountains after one soldier, two police officers and two civilians were murdered. Although the principal task of journalism is to provide readers with background and context, for some reason it is considered a journalistic requirement to overlook these ferocious murders when it comes to the PKK.Ankara treats the PKK in the same way as any European country treats a terrorist organization that indiscriminately slaughters civilians, soldiers and police. Furthermore, it should be noted that the state pursues too tolerant a policy in order to avoid risking the reconciliation process. All journalists in southeastern Turkey know that the PKK has armed its base throughout the reconciliation process, judged people in its own courts, extorted money from business owners and threatened people by controlling the roads with its own militants. This fact came to light in the most grievous way during the Oct. 6-8 Kobani protests last year when 51 people died after Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) Co-Chair Selahattin Demirtaş incited people onto the streets. The state, nevertheless, did not prefer to put the reconciliation process into cold storage. This time, however, it was forced to exercise its right to defend itself when the PKK continued to commit murders and broke the cease-fire immediately after the ISIS attack. Although Turkey bombed the PKK headquarters in Iraq, many media outlets, including Le Monde and The Guardian, published reports that said Turkey bombed the Kurds, not the bases in northern Iraq's Qandil Mountains. Just as the U.K. and France do not bomb Muslims, but al-Qaida when they bomb al-Qaida positions, Turkey does not bomb Kurds, but the PKK when it bombs the Qandil Mountains.Although Turkey included the People's Protection Units (YPG), the armed faction of the Democratic Union Party (PYD), which is the PKK's affiliate in Syria, on its list of terrorist organizations, it makes a clear distinction between the YPG and the PKK as it fights against ISIS. Turkey targets only ISIS in Syria and only the PKK in Iraq. Although Turkey considers the YPG to be a terrorist organization, it made a concession and allowed peshmerga troops and heavy weapons from northern Iraq's Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) to cross from it border to Syria twice in order to help the YPG and allowed injured YPG soldiers to be treated in Turkish hospitals with the objective of supporting the battle against ISIS. In brief, Turkey is fighting organizations that conduct terror acts within its borders. This picture will be seen more clearly if the foreign media reports developments unfailingly and without siding with any party as required by journalistic principles.