A person is inseparable from the characteristics they are born with. They cannot erase, change, or simply ignore them. Sometimes people try to escape or distance themselves from these traits: they deny their ethnicity, refuse to speak their mother tongue, or develop an inferiority complex because of their skin colour. Although these things may not always be treatable, they arise from psychological factors and from the way society reflects itself onto the individual. But none of them is stupidity.

So, what is stupidity?

  Stupidity is worshipping an idol and watching those who do not deny their origins follow someone who knowingly denies his own.

  Stupidity is knowingly accepting a captive and prisoner like Öcalan as a leader and entrusting the future of all Kurdistan to the words that come from the lips of a captive.

  Stupidity is accepting inept and characterless people—who have spent centuries attempting to make peace with the very perpetrators of massacres—as leaders.

  Stupidity is being deceived by folkloric elements while disregarding the Kurdish language and Kurdish culture, both of which are gradually being forgotten.

  Stupidity is laying down one’s weapons while the entire world is arming itself, and then begging for the murderer’s mercy.

  Stupidity is believing that peace can be made with a murderer and submitting to voluntary assimilation under the name of integrating one people into another.

  The principal creator of this stupidity is the Turkish state, which uses the captive in its hands to enslave a people. For years, the Turkish state has sought to stupefy the Kurds so that they can make no progress in either Turkish or Kurdish and display no spark of intelligence. It has been preparing for these days for years.

  The Turkish state kept books attributed to Öcalan—written through the involvement of the MİT—in circulation as if they had been printed and distributed through clandestine channels. It lulled people to sleep through the captive whom they themselves had chosen as their leader. Today, it drags those sleepwalkers behind it with lies of peace and integration.

  On the one hand, it brings the ranks of the PKK, where thousands of young people were killed, under its control; on the other, it does the same to the ranks of Rojava, where thousands more young people were destroyed.

  The Turks, Arabs, and Persians know very well what they are doing as states. Yet because the Kurds lack leadership, and because those presented as leaders among them are either captives or traitors, the Kurds have never been able to establish a state throughout history. I fear that they will not be able to do so now—or ever in the future.

As dear İbrahim Halil Baran has stated:

  “Kurds are repeating in this century the same mistakes they made in previous centuries!”

My own statement is this:

  “Kurds continue their stupidity, just as they have throughout history.”