Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk sharply criticized President Recep Tayyip Erdogan today for his "calculation" in relation to the Kurds, a day after the bomb attacks in Ankara in which 97 people died.
"Erdogan was enraged by the failure in the elections... The Kurds did not trust him and did not support him," said Pamuk in an interview with the Italian newspaper Republika.
Pamuk, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature, said that the government and the army have decided to restart the war against the Kurdish movement.
"The whole country today understands Erdogan's calculation. First, he did not want to be part of the international coalition fighting the Islamic caliphate. Then, he accepted to do what the Americans asked him to do. Then, simultaneously with the caliphate, he started bombing the Kurds," he said. is Cotton.
The pro-Kurdish opposition has intensified its attacks on Erdogan, whom it accuses of the attacks in Ankara, the deadliest bombings in Turkey.
The attacks took place on Saturday, three weeks before parliamentary elections.
Regarding the attack, Pamuk said that all free Turks, democrats, laymen, are with the Kurds and sympathize with them because that people wants peace.
"A peaceful country suddenly found itself at war, simultaneously against the Islamic caliphate and against the Kurdistan Workers' Party", Kurdish rebels, added Orhan Pamuk.
The opposition accuses Erdogan of adding fuel to the fire in the conflict with the Kurds, hoping to attract the nationalist-oriented part of the electorate.
In Turkey's latest parliamentary election on June 7, the ruling party lost the absolute majority it had held since 2002, dashing Erdogan's hopes of changing the constitution and expanding his powers.
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