Was the HDP sincere in participating in the cabinet?

Was the Kurdish nationalist Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) sincere when it willingly sent its deputies to become ministers in Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu's caretaker government? Is it sincere in anything?

These are justified questions when the HDP and its parliamentarians have been putting in a weird performance since the June 7 elections.

On Tuesday afternoon two members of the HDP who were ministers in the Davutoğlu caretaker government - set up as a constitutional necessity - decided to leave the cabinet after putting on a grand performance during a press conference where they lambasted President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the prime minister and the Justice and Development Party (AK Party).

They accused Erdoğan of war mongering, creating the current spiral of violence in eastern and southeastern Turkey and thus engineering a civil coup. They also accused Erdoğan and the AK Party of a series of wrongdoings and irregularities. The HDP has been saying all this since the June 7 elections so why did they accept to enter this Cabinet in the first place?

Davutoğlu had assigned them to takeover important posts. Müslüm Doğan became the minister of development, which is a key cabinet post, taking vital economic decisions and holds a key position in the shaping of the 2016 fiscal year budget. Ali Haydar Konca was named minister of the European Union, which is another important post in the government. Yet since coming to office they have been doing nothing but stalling the day to day running of the country. Just like the HDP mayors in eastern and southeastern provinces who help PKK terrorists dig hedges and put up barricades in their townships using municipal facilities, these two became the mouthpieces of the PKK and only talked about secession and how the PKK was justified in killing people and fomenting violence.

The HDP is supposed to be the champion of humanitarian causes. Did anyone ever hear EU Minister Konca or the HDP talk about the plight of Syrian refugees and lament the inactivity of the EU countries to host these people as Syrians died like flies in their exodus to Europe? All they did was rally support for the PKK claiming that Turkey was undertaking a massive security operation against Kurds in Turkey causing serious human rights violations. They never bothered to say it was the PKK that started the spiral of violence and has since killed about 100 security personnel as well as teachers, doctors and nurses. They never mentioned in their talks with the EU officials that the PKK was using HDP municipal facilities to create "autonomous" zones in eastern and southeastern Turkey in a bid to secede the eastern and southeastern provinces and create a Kurdish state entity similar to the one that is shaping up in northern Syria.

Was it Erdoğan who ordered the killing of the two policemen in their beds in July and resumed the terrorist war? Was it Erdoğan who was caught carrying arms to the PKK in his vehicle? Accusing Erdoğan and the AK Party is the cheap way out. The PKK simply used the good intentions of Erdoğan to end the violence in Turkey and create peace and reconciliation between Turks and the Kurds who did not feel like first class citizens. The PKK used the HDP as a front to continue its hidden agenda of secession for the past three years. The PKK set up the foundations of secession in eastern and southeastern townships like Silopi, Cizre and Lice and challenged the Turkish state in July. They never wanted peace; they had no intentions of laying down arms or withdrawing their militants to northern Iraq. They stayed put and spread their influence through intimidation and threats especially in southeastern Turkey. Can any sincere Kurdish politician honestly say all these are wrong? Why is a famous Kurdish political figure like Leyla Zana threatening to start a hunger strike to protest all this?

The HDP wanted to become a Trojan horse inside the Davutoğlu cabinet and succeeded. Now they want to go out with a bang.