Leave Turks and Armenians alone and resolve your own issues


Some groups in Europe are resorting to every means possible to undermine Turkey. They initially hoped for help from terrorist groups based in Turkey. First, they supported the coup attempts organized by the terrorist group known as FETÖ, headed by former imam Fethullah Gülen. Through police officers, prosecutors, judges and other bureaucrats infiltrated state bodies, they attempted to defame Turkey's ministers and other state officials, including President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, with false charges of corruption and bribery. But in the end, they failed. Their efforts to seize control of Turkey's National Intelligence Organization (MİT) also resulted in failure. They planned to assassinate President Erdoğan by sabotaging an operation he needed, which also failed. Innumerable assassination attempts were unveiled. They blackmailed many bureaucrats by wire-tapping their private conversations or filming their private lives. All their unlawful activities were revealed. Now, they are forced to account in court.So what has Europe done with regard to all these plots? Despite being aware of these obnoxious attempts to undermine Turkey's government, European Commission representatives backed Gülen and his illegal organization for a long time. They did not feel any shame while penning pro-Gülenist phrases in European Parliament reports. Members of the Gülen Movement still maintain their anti-Turkey activities with the support of some political circles, churches, and state governments in some EU countries, including Belgium and Germany. Those hoping for Gülen's help have not achieved their goals. The Turkish people did not allow them to do what they intended.

After this, they turned to the outlawed PKK and their Syrian offshoot, the Democratic Union Party (PYD). Nothing comes of nothing. Some names in the European Parliament even demanded the removal of the PKK from the list of terrorist groups recognized by the EU, despite the PKK guilt for hundreds of thousands of casualties in Turkey. What is worse is that some PKK militants were even invited to meetings at the European Parliament. Deputies from the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), who overtly defend all the violent assaults of the PKK, received the red carpet treatment in Berlin and Brussels. While the PKK was massacring dozens of Turkish citizens in Ankara and Istanbul with suicide bomb attacks, it was nonetheless allowed to set up propaganda tents right outside the European Parliament.

They allowed the PYD to open an agency representing the terrorist organization in European capitals. The PYD recently opened an office in Paris. Germany went even further and provided weapons to the PYD. In order to justify their support to the public, they spread the lie that the PKK and the PYD fight against DAESH. However, the PKK, the PYD and DAESH are in cooperation to divide and share Syrian and Iraqi territories.

They objected to Parliament's approval of lifting political immunity for some HDP deputies who abetted PKK and PYD militants, although such an implementation is normal in every state governed by the rule of law. They were disturbed by investigations launched regarding those abetting terrorism.

They attempted to prevent the AK Party's coming to power and have aspired to overthrow Erdoğan by abusing the local, general and presidential elections that have been conducted over the last three years in Turkey. They failed repeatedly. Afterward, with the intention of sabotaging the New Turkey at all costs, they invented a coalition model suggesting the coalition of three opposition parties, the Republican People's Party (CHP), the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), and the HDP, although the suggested model was against the nature of Turkey's context. They were so blinded by ambition that they could not even see that patriotic nationalists would never form a coalition with PKK proponents. They unsurprisingly failed in that, too.

They tried to represent journalists who were charged with allegations of espionage, as "heroes of journalism." Some Consul-Generals from various EU countries in Istanbul, including the British Consul-General for Istanbul, took selfies with defendants charged with espionage against NATO. They again failed.

When their coup plot attempts again with the Gezi Park protests, and the Dec. 17 and Dec. 25 incidents, they endeavored to upset Turkey's economic stability through dollar speculations. They failed.

And now they are using the Armenian issue as a trump card.

The European Parliament recycled the so-called Armenian Genocide issue for their anti-Turkey motivations. Such an act can be expected from the European Parliament since many of its acts are questionable, but what about the Bundestag, which we know as a serious parliament?

What are the motivations of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), the Green Party and the Left Party members, who are preparing to accept the so-called Armenian genocide at a session they are organizing for June 2? The actions from the left, which are outspoken supporters of the PKK, and the Green Party, which has formed close relations with the HDP in recent years, do not surprise us. We did not expect any objective or honest approach towards Turkey from them. However, the SPD's attitude has disappointed Turks in Turkey and Germany.

We did not expect the SPD to support this anti-Turkey attempt. Approving a bad decision that would contradict the interests of Germany clashes against the image of German social democrats, who have a history stretching back more than 150 years.

The saddest part is that those parliament members do not actually care about Armenians or Turks. What Turks and Armenians suffered does not interest the Bundestag. The only way to resolve problems between Armenians and Turks is to build dialogue between these two countries. For a long time, Turkey has invited Armenia to gather historians from both sides at one table to determine and identify the pain we suffered and inflicted on each other. In other words, Turkey clearly suggests resolving the problems of the past between the two countries and coming to friendly terms.

German parliament members will maybe do the greatest harm to Turks and Armenians if they vote for the lie of an "Armenian Genocide" based on false data and partial claims. As a matter of fact, Germany knows better than anyone that the past cannot be confronted by distorting history. But if the real motivation is to undermine Turkey, the parliament members are wasting their time. They are all futile attempts.

With their actions intended to reach this disgraceful target, they woke up a sleeping giant in Germany. Turks shook themselves off and have refused to remain indifferent to such obnoxious ploys. They have been protesting against all kinds of unjust treatment toward Turkey and Turks, using all of their democratic rights in Germany. After some charlatan insulted President Erdoğan by using very disrespectful language, the German TV station ZDF understood what Turks' protests means. Bundestag members have been receiving thousands of protest emails for days.

Hundreds of thousands of Turks will be in Berlin on June 1 to say "No to hatred and lies! Yes to solidarity!" And we wonder strongly how the members of parliament, who will approve of this bill affirming the so-called Armenian genocide, will appeal to the Turkish electorate in Germany during their electoral campaigns without feeling shame.

Those disturbed by the New Turkey and their leader Erdoğan, who are determined to conduct independent policies, will once again fail in their attempts to undermine Turkey by using the lies of the so-called Armenian genocide.

If they would only leave Turks and Armenians alone and tried to resolve their own problems in Europe, they would benefit their citizens.