We are obviously engulfed in a vicious circle in eliminating violence and freeing the Kurdish question from conflict. We take a step and make some progress, but we eventually go back to square one. This course has not changed since former President Turgut Özal made a move in the early 1990s. Whenever a positive step has been taken to resolve the issue since then, it has been foiled by putting forth an excuse.Turkey took great opportunities in 1993, 1996 and in 1999 when PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan was captured, but it did not seize these opportunities very well. Also, there were attempts after 2003 when the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) came to power as a single party government, with the Khabur and Oslo talks being introduced in 2009 and 2011, respectively. Shadow and real structures both at home and abroad went to the ends of the earth to hamper those talks. Kurdish political figures stated many times what the Gülen Movement's "parallel structure" did during the Oslo talks. At that time as well, Turkey newly emerged from an election and in less than a month the PKK resumed the conflict by killing 13 soldiers on July 14, 2011. The PKK put forward the same justification: "We are initiating the revolutionary people's war." Interestingly enough, civil actors such as Aysel Tuğluk came into play immediately and autonomy was declared in Diyarbakır. No one questioned what happened next. The process suffered a setback and the victims were the people who were killed during that bloody process. While I was re-reading Leyla Zana's interview the previous day, I was captured by a striking detail that concerned the interruption of the process in 2011 but was not emphasized:"Many dark actions undermined the process. There are five mysterious people who pitted both parties against each other in Silvan. Who are they? It is easy to say that the state's Ergenekon did this; the PKK's hawks did this. What really matters is to resolve it and to detect perpetrators."We have come to perhaps the most promising way of removing violence. Former prime minister and current president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, started a domestic process in a resolute fashion for the first time in early 2013 and realized the most important peace project in the region by paving the way for talks with Öcalan. Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu said of this point, which was reached after nearly two years, in September 2014: "It would cost more for a man to go back than to cross if he reached the half-way point in a fast-flowing stream. We have passed half way in the process with the framework law that we enacted. Now we have to swim faster."This was one side of the picture, but the other side was rather dark and other games were planned. A segment in Kurdish politics pursued a policy that deemed Erdoğan an enemy from the very beginning of the process. It consolidated this attitude with the Gezi Park protests, the Dec. 17 and Dec. 25 operations and the National Intelligence Organization (MİT) truck operations. The main objective was to sabotage the reconciliation process. When these attempts proved ineffective, the Kobani protests were fomented, igniting a flare up of current experiences.This was a game similar to the schemes of some 30 years ago. What was interesting was that the game was noticed this time. It, nevertheless, could not be prevented.Nowadays, whether Öcalan will come into play again or not is on the agenda. Öcalan, beyond any doubt, was one of those who knew these games best. In a 2003 interview, journalist Avni Özgürel placed emphasis on Öcalan's following remarks: "If I intend to deal with this, they kill me. If the highest-level commanding person in Turkey intends to deal with it, they do not allow him and kill him."Let us consider this argument together with what Okan Müderrisoğlu mentioned with reference to Öcalan: "I am a child of these lands. However, [HDP Co-Chair] Selahattin [Demirtaş] is an international project! As I was being increasingly isolated, Selahattin was blatantly given prominence."Let me conclude the article with a statement by Süleyman Müftigil, a "parallel structure"-linked businessman who was interviewed by a journalist in December 2013: "Following this congress, [Öcalan] will be sidelined, a new period with arms and conflict is coming again. Barzani and Erdoğan will be sidelined as well."Unfortunately, our knowledge of this failed to prevent the conflict. Not only state, but also Kurdish political actors should come into play to prevent further success. This is the true way of giving the game away.