Botan Zębarî
2026 / 3 / 2
Silence is no longer a virtue when the fate of a people is being steered into the unknown by decisions issued from behind the bars of Imrali. What the Kurdish street is witnessing today, particularly in wounded Rojava, is not a fleeting wave of discontent. It is an earthquake of popular alienation that has reached the point of explicit accusations of betrayal and collusion. The masks have fallen. Kurds now ask, their voices choked with pain: how long will we remain fuel for projects that bear no resemblance to us, for illusions crafted in the basements of Turkish intelligence?
From “Liberating Kurdistan” to the Trap of the “Democratic Nation”
For decades, the throats of Kurdish youth grew hoarse chanting “a unified, independent Kurdistan,” and they offered their lives cheaply for what they believed to be a sacred dream. Yet, in a bitter twist of fate, this people awoke to discover that the blood of its sons had been invested in nebulous, ambiguous ventures under the banner of the “Democratic Nation” and the “brotherhood of peoples.”
What deception is this, that allows a people to be slaughtered and displaced from Afrin and Serekaniye, only then to be asked to apologize for their national identity and dissolve into the melting pot of slogans that have brought them nothing but devastation and hostility from their surroundings? Did the hundreds of thousands of victims truly need all this ruin merely to arrive at the conclusion that we are “border guards” for others?
The Worship of the “Idol” and the Eclipse of Reason
The central dilemma lies in transforming Abdullah Ö-;-calan into a political idol, immune to error from any -dir-ection. How can a sound political mind mortgage the fate of millions and an immense military movement to the dictates of a man imprisoned under the grip of the Turkish state and the surveillance of its intelligence services?
To claim that commands are issued from there is to mock reason and to insult the dignity of the Kurdish human being, who is expected to behave like a herd steered by a remote control held in Ankara. This approach no longer represents a future. It is a tightening noose around the neck of the Kurdish cause, while reality grows ever more -dir-e and obstructed.
The Bill of Defeats and the Questions of Deferred Apology
Why do the Ö-;-calanists lack the courage to stand before the mirror? Why do they evade the obligation of self-critique? This immense wave of hatred and popular rejection is no coincidence. It is the bitter harvest of years marked by organizational arrogance, the suppression of dissent, and subservience to regional conflicts in which the Kurds have neither camel nor stake.
The time has come for them to ask themselves: whose borders were being protected? And were the blood of our youth truly shed for Kurdistan,´-or-were they offerings laid upon the altar of dubious international understandings?
Conclusion: An Unbearable Burden
The questions raised today by the Kurdish street are neither incitement nor insult. They are a cry for help from a people who refuse to remain hostage to a failed ideology. The Ö-;-calanists, and those who applaud them, must realize that they have become a heavy burden upon Kurdish society. Remaining part of this fabric requires a public apology, a radical reassessment of crumbling certainties, and a return to a purely national interest, before they find themselves alone in the face of a street whose anger will show no mercy to those who trade in its suffering.
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