When violence is prolonged, the spectator is immunized, it's like putting a vaccine. The realities beyond the Urals are ignored by the European institutions and by the citizens, with impressive efficiency. Hundreds of Kurdish activists, hard to say how much, are on hunger strike. These are extreme hunger strikes that are killing themselves. The cry of others by burning their bodies: to end the total isolation of the head of the PKK Abdullah Öcalan, imprisoned for 20 years.

Europe looks to the other side whenever Turkey kills the Kurds, takes Afrín militarily or puts in twenty years’ imprisonment for speaking in the Kurdish Parliament. Europe maintains the PKK on terrorist lists and does not suspend Turkey’s entry into the European Union (EU). It is too important a strategic step for Asia. In return, Turkey is doing dirty work for the EU to block migrants.
But, well, statements such as “the high level of participation of the Spanish elections” show that in Europe democracy is healthy…