Ertugrul Ozkok: Who exploded the Diyarbakir bomb?

But all I can think of is still that first reaction of mine: "May whomever did this be punished by Allah." This includes, of course, the PKK, or any so-called "Turkish" group that was reacting to PKK bombs from this summer. Or any deep-rooted religious group with foreign ties. May Allah punish whichever of these was responsible. As far as I am concerned, they are all the same. These are all repulsive groups, aiming at breaking the ties of citizenship in this country. And as Turks, we need to respond in a unified voice to these gangs, whoever they may be.

I am sure you noticed the front page reactions in the newspapers yesterday. There was more coverage given to the Diyarbakir bomb than to the bombs from this summer in Marmaris and Antalya. I think we need to pay attention to this fact, because what it in fact reflects is the general feeling across Turkey. Even if we don't like to admit it, there is a fear we all hold: that somehow the bomb in Diyarbakir was a reprisal (from some group) for the PKK bombs in Marmaris and Antalya this summer. This is something the PKK definitely wants. It has not yet been capable of turning the anger felt by Turks over terror into reprisal attacks against Kurdish citizens. This is one of the biggest messages of humanity sent by the Turkish people to the rest of the world over the past 20 years. Despite all of the pain from the many of funerals of citizens killed in terror attacks, we have never turned to reprisals. Anyway, this is why we want our security forces to immediately find the suspects in this case. Because we all realize that what we are facing is one of the biggest cases of provocation in our shared history.

There are those who want for the entire country's geography to fall under the shadow of "the bomb." It is also clear that these same people use the southeast of Turkey to prepare the groundwork for the bombs they explode in our western cities. They want the citizens of our country to interact by bombing eachother. Which is why we need to give a shared reaction to those who have carried out this latest act. We need to speak in a shared tongue to these terrorists, because someone who could kill children, mothers, and fathers playing in a park is a shared enemy. In fact, the loudest voices should be those of the mothers who have lost sons in clashes against the PKK, or the families of people killed in PKK blasts in Istanbul, Marmaris, Antalya, Kusadasi, and everywhere else. These are the people who will best understand the pain of the mothers who have lost their children playing in the park. And Kurdish mothers, if they are truly peace mothers, will join in this chorus. The pain of losing a child does not recognize borders or passports, and we must destroy down this bloody network.