The July 15 coup attempt and the Fetullah Terror Organization (FETÖ) cases continue full speed ahead in all provinces. In the courts, especially established to present all the dimensions of the most insidious and most comprehensive traitor network in Turkey's history, the prosecutors present the indictments to the court, and in response, the putschists stage their own talented performances. The fact that they were caught red-handed in the coup attempt is so clear that, on first consideration it is palpable that there is not much room for defense and that pleading guilty is the only option.
Of course, our putschist traitors are not as naive as the man in the joke. It was emphasized time and time again that the defendants’ attitudes in the first trials in Ankara and Silivri were a complete theatrical performance. In the following stages, things went far beyond that. There are myriads of footage of the traitors being caught in the act.
The people who appear on the hundreds of records during the coup act confidently state that the people in the images are not them. They say that the explicit phone messages are not related to the coup. They say that they have nothing to do with FETÖ; that they never knew about FETÖ; that their presence there for the coup and their gathering with the putschists was a complete coincidence.
One claims: "If you present images showing that I fired shots, I will accept all that I am charged with and put a bullet in my head." When the images of the scene are presented, he says, "I just held my gun as a reflex of self-defense. I shouted, ‘Get out of here.’ I did not use a gun at any moment that night, and me holding a gun does not mean I fired it.” The pilot who bombed Parliament says he did so with the objective of "fighting terrorism.” One caught in Akıncı says that he came to "spend time with his grandkids,” while another claims that he came there “to shoot an animal documentary.”
We are confronted with a mindset that has been organized outrageously as a secret society for 50 years and considers all kinds of deception, murder and conspiracies acceptable to achieve their goals. They don’t hesitate to cover their lies with other lies.
Those who set out to form a criminal organization cannot be expected to hold themselves to any ethical code. There is no ethic, but methods in the mafia; and they take heed to comply with these methods. Despite FETÖ being a a criminal enterprise at its annex, it holds people together with religious discourse at its infrastructure and this discourse is expected to have an ethical code that cannot normally be renounced. What can prompt a movement that is motivated by religion to so easily adopt a lie which is a great crime and misdemeanor in all ethical perspectives? An ethical code with a religious foundation can be only suspended by a religiously-based justification.
