Propaganda wars are a crucial element of the government’s current military operations in the southeast. This past week we witnessed fine warfare photography from the trenches: Soldiers lying in the bunkers of primary schools aiming at PKK terrorists, special police forces using drone footage to carry out the “house-to-house, room-to-room” clashes. For international viewers it all resembled the U.S. air operations in Afghanistan; no personal contact, no human faces. That is why people in western towns felt a chilling isolation and remoteness to it all.