Question:
On Saturday,
17/12/2016 there was a bombing: 13 soldiers were killed on Saturday and 48
others were wounded, including civilians, in a car bomb explosion near the
Arges University, located in the state of Caesarea, in central Turkey,
according to a statement issued by the Turkish Armed Forces. (CNN Arabic
website, 17/12/2016) Two bombings occurred late last Saturday, 10/12/2016 near
the Besiktas Stadium Club in Istanbul's city center, which resulted in the
deaths of 38 people, including 30 police officers, and the final death toll rose up to 44 people, the
organization called Kurdistan’s Freedom Falcons, claimed responsibility for the
previous two blasts. Is it true that they are behind the current bombing? What
is the background of this organization? What is the motive behind these
bombings? May Allah reward you.
Answer:
1- As for the Istanbul bombings that took
place on 10/12/2016, it was adopted by the Kurdistan Freedom Falcons
organization as stated in their declaration:
“The Kurdistan Freedom Falcons group
emanating from the Kurdistan Workers' Party announced on Sunday its responsibility
for the two bombings outside a football stadium in the Turkish city of
Istanbul, killing 38 people and injuring 155 ... In a statement on its website
the group, that claimed responsibility for other attacks in Turkey in the
current year, said that it carried out the two attacks on Saturday evening,
which shocked in a country that is still trying to recover from a failed coup
attempt and the many bombings since the
beginning of the year. The Saturday attacks took place near Vodafone's stadium
of Besiktas football team after almost two hours of the end of the match at the
stadium, and it seemed that the attacks targeted the police ...”
(Ankara-Reuters, 11/12/2016). Then the death toll increased: “The death toll
from the bombings of Istanbul, which occurred day before yesterday on Saturday
evening, to 44 dead, at least, depending on the results published by the
Ministry of Health and reported by the Turkish media. The Health Minister Recep
Okdag said in front of the parliament in Ankara, “it is very painful to lose 36
of our police and 8 of our civilians in a bloody attack.” (London: Middle
East Online, 12/12/2016)
2- As for the bombing on 17/12/2016, it was
not adopted by any party so far, but Turkish officials have said in their
statements that the bombing (today) is similar to the bombing of last Saturday,
10/12/2016. “In the same context, Numan Kortolmos, the Turkish Deputy Prime
Minister said that the materials used in the car bomb attack on a bus carrying
soldiers outside their shift in the central province of Caesarea (Kayseri) is similar
to those used in the bombings of Istanbul last week. Kortolmos made the
statement during an interview with the NTV television station. No one has
claimed responsibility immediately for the attack, which killed 13 people and
wounded 55 others ...” (Arabiya.net, Saturday, 17/12/2016), “For his part, the
Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, said that the PKK was responsible for
the attack. Erdogan explained in a statement "that a separatists terrorist
organization" is responsible for the attack, pointing to a link of such attacks
to the developments in Iraq and Syria. The Turkish President used the term “separatists
terrorist organization" repeatedly to refer to the PKK, which the United
States, the European Union, and Turkey included in a list of terrorist
organizations.” (Arabiya.net, Saturday, 17/12/2016)
Therefore,
it is more probable that those who carried out the bombings on 17/12/2016 and
the two bombings on 10/12/2016 is the same perpetrator. i.e. the Kurdistan
Freedom Falcons or known as TAK.
3- As for the
background of this organization and its reality, we will explain after shedding
light on the the change developments in the PKK after the arrest of its founder
Ocalan:
A- Following the arrest of Ocalan in the Kenyan capital
Nairobi, a six-member committee was formed for the leadership of the Kurdish
community system, and this system is characterized by a very complex composition
compared to the Kurdish parties in other parts of Kurdistan. The system
practically consists of four major parties that each include tens of
organizations of youth, students, women, social, civil service and security
committees ... and these parties are: the PKK in Turkey, the Democratic Union
Party in Syria, and Democratic solution Party in Iraq, the Party of Free Life
in Iran "PJAK." Each of these parties, have its own leadership and organization,
but eventually they subsume within the framework of the Kurdish community
system headed since 1999 by Murat Kara Whelan.
B- The PKK during the mandate of Murat Kara Whelan softened
its positions in Turkey. Since the capture of Abdullah Ocalan in 1999 the goals
of the PKK was reduced from demanding the full independence for Kurdistan to
gaining the cultural rights and a form of self-rule limited to the Turkish
Kurds and this was after agreements between the Turkish government and Ocalan
took place, which were planned by America, and therefore the calm that
subsequently followed between the PKK and the Turkish government as a result.
C- The relationship between the PKK and the Turkish
government during the term of Murat Kara Whelan continued with calm and
softness as drawn by the United States, in steps to calm the situation between
the Turkish government and the Kurds, and the means to calm tensions continued
between the two sides, especially as of late 2012:
16/12/2012: The President
of the Turkish intelligence service, "Hakan Fidan," visited Imrali Island
and met with Abdullah Ocalan.
9/12/2012: Recep Tayyip
Erdogan announced on TRT, the government channel, of holding meetings with
Ocalan.
21/3/2013: Abdullah Ocalan’s speech was read out in front
of crowds celebrating the festival of Nowruz, in it he called for renouncing
violence and to start the political struggle. Ocalan then said the following phrase:
"It's time to give up weapons and the withdrawal of the armed elements
outside Turkish territory. This does not mean the end of the conflict. But it
means the beginning of the struggle of a different kind."
“The United States
welcomed the call of the PKK leader
Abdullah Ocalan yesterday for the PKK rebels to "lay down their
arms," and it described it as "a positive step", and the
Turkish government also welcomed it, but it angered the nationalist Turks...
The spokeswoman for the State Department Victoria Nuland the "Ocalan's
ceasefire declaration could help end the" continuing tragic violence for more
than three decades in Turkey. " Nuland added that the United States
applauds as well " the courageous efforts made by the Turkish government
and all parties concerned to achieve a peaceful solution that will strengthen
democracy in Turkey ...” (Al Jazeera.net, 22/03/2013)
4/4/2013: The
formation of a committee of “wise men”, consisting of 63 people, began to
travel across Turkey to engage in dialogue in order to reach an agreed upon
solution to the Kurdish issue.
25/4/2013: Murat Garaalan,
one of the leaders of the Qandil Mountain in front of hundreds of journalists
announced that the organization will begin the process of withdrawing from Turkish
territory as of 8/5/2013.
D- This calm in tensions and this soft policy continued
throughout the leadership of Murat Kara Whelan then things started to shift
towards harshness after Jamil Bayek took leadership, a decade after the Ninth
Conference of the PKK and the election of Bayek as a successor to Murat: “The
Ninth Conference of the PKK was held last June and July, in Qandil with the
participation of 162 members, changes in the leadership of the party took place,
and Bayek replaced Kara Whelan, he was
ahead of Whelan by three voices ...” (KDP website, 6/11/2013)
The change in the
presidency of the Committee in the eyes of some Kurdish and Turkish political
circles is seen as a coup against the previous stage, since there was election
of an entire new leadership committee composed of six people (three men and
three women), headed by the senior leader Jamil Bayek. It could be argued that
the change in leadership of the party in the conference was a new turn in the
party's strategy, both at the level of a fully elected a new leadership, or the
policy to be followed in the next stage ... and subsequent events indicate that
policy:
·
5/7/2013: Jamil
Bayek one of the military leaders of the organization of the PKK in the Qandil Mountain
was chosen and with him, Bese Hozat for the presidency of the Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK).
·
31/7/2013:
Jamil Bayek made statements to the British Broadcasting Corporation, BBC, in
which he stressed that the organization will stop the process of withdrawal if
the Turkish government did not take concrete actions until the 1st of next
September. Not only this, but he gave a warning that includes the return of the
forces that pulled back into Turkish territory.
·
19/8/2013:
Jamil Bayek said that in case of failure of the process of national
reconciliation, the security situation inside Turkey will deteriorate even more
than before.
·
9/9/2013:
The Union of Turkish communities KCK announced that the withdrawal of the
forces of the organization of the PKK from Turkish territory has stopped
completely.
· 3/12/2013:
Jamil Bayek delivered a speech on the
latest developments in Turkey, in which he said: "If the situation continues
like this, then there must be a war in Turkey. We gave the Turkish government
an opportunity to fulfill our demands until next spring, these demands have
been achieved by the Turkish government, the problem will be resolved through
conciliation. But if our conditions are not accepted, then we cannot continue
like this with the Turks. "
· 20/12/2014:
Jamil Bayek said: "The abandonment
of the arms serves as a death for them."
· 12/6/2015:
The Chairman of the Democratic People’s Party, Salahuddin Dimirattash said,
"The PKK organization can lay down its arms in answer to the appeal of its
leader, Abdullah Ocalan. To which the Kurdish Communities Union replied: "Everyone
should be aware of the following fact: the decision of abandonment of the armed
struggle against the Turkish state is completely up to us to us and no one has
the right to express their opinion in this regard. Everyone must also know that
the Democratic People’s Party does not represent our political wing, and
therefore the leaders of the Democratic People’s Party can not ask us to
abandon arms, and we do not believe that our leader Abdullah Ocalan will ask us
to give up arms within the current conditions and circumstances ... We would
like everyone to know that our decision not to give up arms does not mean our rejection
to Ocalan's demands and we are not aiming to block the political work of the
Democratic People’s Party. "
·
12/7/2015:
The Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK) said on Sunday, that the cease-fire agreement
with Turkey since 2012 has ended, citing the reason being the ‘building of the
Turkish state of dams and military sites’ ... This came in a statement issued
by the co-presidency of the Executive Council of the Kurdistan Communities Union, KCK, in which it stated: The Turkish state violated the
truce conditions. (ARA NEWS 12/7/2016)
·
14/7/2015:
One of the heads of the Kurdish community system, Bessie Hozat wrote an article
published in Özgür
Gündem (Free Agenda) Newspaper under the
title: "The next stage, the stage of the war, which will be carried out by
the rebellious people in Turkey."
E- From all the above it can be seen that the PKK
during the term of Murat was closer to the US line, through the implementation
of the US agreed truce between the Turkish government the PKK, and that stage
has culminated in a peace agreement between them in March 2013 ... and
during that period some Kurds’ grumbling led to splits and objections ... The
calm atmosphere during the term of Murat Kara Whelan (1999-2013) have angered
some of the Kurds because they saw that they included some concessions ... In
this atmosphere, the split of the organization of the Kurdistan Freedom Falcons
or the so-called TAK from the Kurdistan Workers' Party in 2004 took place, ever
since its inception in 1993, it was linked
to the PKK, it and now operates independently they claim. The organization TAK
stress that their organization is an independent organization and it is not
linked to any one; they introduce themselves as "commando forces",
structurally, and their basic goal is to hit the military infrastructure of the
Turkish army and the sabotage of the tourism sector... The first of its operations was in 2005,
targeting a bus of tourists, killing five people and injuring 20 others. Like
Turkey, as of 2008, TAK organization is considered a terrorist organization by
the United States, and entered the list of foreign terrorist organizations, and
it is also considered so by the EU.
F- After the change that has occurred in the Ninth
Conference and the advent of the Bayek’s leadership in the elections of July
2013, the PKK became more incline to the English (policy) line targeting
Erdogan and his government with material acts like bombings and killings.
This is reflected strongly on the agenda of the Falcons, especially during the
current year. The atmosphere helped the Kurdistan Freedom Falcons to double
their operations against the Turkish security forces, and so they escalated
their activity in this period. To shed light on those operations since late
last year and have intensified this year, like the last operation on 17/12/2016,
we can see this clearly:
·
December
2015 - the targeting of Sabiha Gokcen Airport in Istanbul with missiles attack
led to the death of an employee
·
February
2016 - a car bomb attack in Ankara, killing 28 people, mostly soldiers
·
March
2016 - a car bomb in Ankara led to the killing and wounding of dozens
·
June
2016 - a car bomb in Vzenjalar neighborhood of Istanbul killed 11 people and
wounded 35, mostly police
·
October
2016 - a motorcycle bombing in Yeni Bosna neighborhood of Istanbul, wounding 10
·
November
2016 - a car bomb at the gate of the state building of Adana in southern
Turkey, killing two civilians, wounding dozens
·
10
December 2016 - a double bombing in the Besiktas district, killing 44 people,
mostly police and injuring about 200
·
17
December 2016 – a bombing: 13 soldiers were killed on Saturday and 48 others
were wounded, including civilians, in a car bomb explosion near the Arges
University, located in the state of Caesarea, central Turkey, according to a
statement issued by the Turkish armed forces... And according to security
sources: "The car bomb exploded near the entrance of Arges University,
next to a bus carrying military personnel who were going away for the weekend…
Police and ambulances rushed to the scenes, which resulted in the deaths and
injuries, who were taken to hospitals in the state amid intense security
measures." (CNN Arabic website, 17/12/2016)
G- Studying all of
the above we can see that the political background of the Kurdistan Freedom
Falcons is as follows:
After Jamil Bayek announced
in 20/12/2014: "The abandonment of the arms serves as a death for
them", the Kurdistan Workers Party, led by Bayek became more radical, this
saw the peak in 12/7/2015, when the Kurdistan society system, KCK, led by Bayek,
announced the end of the cease-fire with the Erdogan’s government ... simultaneously
TAK became more active, carrying out material acts against the vital interests
of the Turkish government. specially security, and recently we saw the two
operations on 10/12/2016 and 17/12/2016.
This
means that most probably the background of the TAK is in harmony Bayek which is
near the (policy) line of Europe, especially Britain, against the
pro-American rule of Erdogan.
H- What confirms this is that Jamil Bayek, one of the
founders of the PKK said on 15th March 2016, to the British newspaper, The Times:
"We want to overthrow Erdogan's Justice and Development Party, because as
long as Erdogan and his party is in power, there will be no democracy in this
country," ... (BBC, 15/03/2016)
Also, the
head of the Republican People's Party, Britain’s agent, Klajaddar Oglu said in
the 72nd Conference of the General Assembly of the Union of Turkish Chambers
and Exchange Commission, (TOBB) in the capital, Ankara, "What is this
presidential system? One person will speak and Turkey remains silent ... This
presidential system can not be applied in this country without bloodshed."
(www.tna24.com 13/5/2016)
I- All of this shows that those behind the recent
bombings in Istanbul are the British. As for the motive behind it is not out of
the following things:
To create
a state of instability to the pro-American regime in Turkey, to continue the
work of those who attempted the last coup, carried out by British agents, they
no doubt realize that it is not easy to change this regime in Turkey since Erdogan
has created strong pillars for America in Turkey, but this can influence and
bring instability, which if repeated may weaken the pillars of the regime.
This is on the one hand and on the other
hand, the parliamentary system in Turkey was established by England, by its
agent Mustafa Kamal after he demolished the Khilafah in 1924, which means that
Britain is the spiritual father of the parliamentary system in Turkey, so
Erdogan, backed by America wants to close that door forever, by changing the
parliamentary system to a presidential system and giving
the president more powers; however, Britain does not want this presidential
system... The head of the Republican people's Party, the British agent,
Klajaddar Oglu said that the presidential system can not be applied in this
country without bloodshed. The Turkish newspaper "Sabah" wrote in one
of its headlines, "he insults the
Council, the people, and politics,"
referring to the statements made by the Republican people's Party, "Klajaddar
Oglu", in which he said: "you can not implement the presidential
system without bloodshed" (Turkey Post, 13/5/2016)
The bottom line is that Britain wants the
killings and bombings carried out by its supporters, including the Kurdistan
Freedom Falcons, so as to kill two birds with one stone: creating
instability in the pro-American Turkish regime, and at the same time, stand
strong in the face of any attempt by Erdogan to declare the presidential system
instead of a parliamentary system. As for the thought that such actions
will lead to a self-governing region, it is unlikely at least in the
foreseeable future.
In conclusion, it is really painful that
the blood of Muslims is spilled not for the sake of Islam and the Ummah of
Islam, but to achieve the interests of the Kaffir colonists ... However, this
Ummah of good will rise again, Allah willing, and the events of the history of
this Ummah is the best evidence. Who
expected that the Ummah of Islam after it was conquered by the Crusaders and
the Tartars who destroyed the capital of the Khilafah in Baghdad, and they
turned the Tigris’ sparkling clear colour to red mixed with black due to the
amount of blood (of Muslims killed) that was mixed with ink of manuscripts
thrown in it, who expected the rise of
this Ummah again, and to open Constantinople? Who would have expected it? But
Allah has men who do not sleep and ignore the oppression and will not remain
silent on the injustice until things truly are put in place and re-establish
the righteous Khilafah, and they represent:
﴿مِنَ
الْمُؤْمِنِينَ رِجَالٌ صَدَقُوا مَا عَاهَدُوا اللَّهَ عَلَيْهِ فَمِنْهُم مَّن
قَضَى نَحْبَهُ وَمِنْهُم مَّن يَنتَظِرُ وَمَا بَدَّلُوا تَبْدِيلًا﴾
“Among
the believers are men true to what they promised Allah. Among them is he who
has fulfilled his vow [to the death], and among them is he who awaits [his
chance]. And they did not alter [the terms of their commitment] by any
alteration.” [Al-Ahzab: 23]
And truly and honestly,
﴿إِنَّ
اللَّهَ بَالِغُ أَمْرِهِ قَدْ جَعَلَ اللَّهُ لِكُلِّ شَيْءٍ قَدْرًا﴾
“Indeed, Allah will accomplish His purpose. Allah has
already set for everything a [decreed] extent”
[At-Talaq: 3]
21 Rabii’ I 1438 AH
20/12/2016 CE
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