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A disgraceful mindset and a scandal

Six months ago, on June 6, an article titled “Who placed a wiretap on the MİT deputy undersecretary?” appeared in this space.


An excerpt from that article is listed below:


“Cevat Öneş is a known personality. He served in the National Intelligence Organization (MİT) for years. He retired from his post with the rank of deputy undersecretary in charge of intelligence. In recent years he has made significant contributions through his articles and thoughts on issues such as the democratization of the intelligence apparatus, and the search for a solution to the Kurdish problem.”


“He called. The prosecutor’s office had summoned him. He found out a wiretap had been placed on him based on the suspicion that he was a part of the KCK (Kurdish Communities Union.)”


“A former MİT deputy undersecretary, who is a suspected member of the KCK. The police officer who prepared this report and the judge that permitted this… Öneş was a victim of multiple smear campaigns because two years ago he participated in a Kurdish Issue Workshop, organized by the HDK (Peoples’ Democratic Congress), which was attended by many intellectuals and journalists, including myself.”


“The Bugün newspaper had already declared Öneş as a member of the KCK. What happened next is known… Cevat Öneş used to say, ‘I filed a complaint. Not just against those that placed this wiretap, but against all who permitted it.’”


Do you wonder about the outcome of this complaint? Let us take a look at the notification that Cevat Öneş received concerning the prosecutor’s decision:


“It has been determined that with regard to the complainant Cevat Öneş, he had a wiretap placed on his communications six times, each time for a three-month period, as a result of his activity within the Democratic Society Congress (DTK), which has been established upon the orders of the chieftain of the PKK/KCK Terrorist Organization (…),


The decision reached by the General Directorate of Security (the police department) on the basis of the pre-investigation report dated 18.04.2014 submitted by the Interior Ministry’s Civil Service Inspectorate, did not permit an investigation to be conducted regarding the wiretaps placed by the suspects, citing that sufficient reasons and intelligence existed to intervene in the communications, and implement such a measure, with regard to the complainant Cevat Öneş; and since the request to record his communications were based on a practical reason (…)


The decision concerning the pre-investigation report and not granting permission for an investigation to be conducted is compatible with the contents of the dossier (…)


On the basis that the suspected officials did not abuse their authority (…) there is no need to prosecute (…)


Prosecutor for the Republic. T.K…”


In short, the decision by the Police Department headquarters and the Civil Service Inspectorate report state that “intelligence exists regarding Öneş’s activities within the terrorist organization, and this intelligence made it inevitable that a wiretap needed to placed, and that the police officers were just performing their duty.”


The prosecutor approves of these decisions…


This constitutes such a no-further-action decision that it blames Öneş. It suggests he had ties to the PKK… (Öneş is not the only person involved in this dossier. A journalist is also included, but I will not mention a name since I don’t have prior approval to do so.)


The entire thing sounds like a joke, but it is true.


It is a scandal to the same extent that it is true…


Both issues; saying that the former deputy undersecretary of the MİT has ties with the PKK, and even considering that such a person could have ties with the PKK, are a scandal…


Öneş, after retiring from the MİT where he ranked among the upper echelon, accepted civilian responsibility and attended a DTK meeting and one or two Peace assembly meetings. He started penning articles regarding the search for a solution to the Kurdish problem, and all this was more than enough for the state’s police force, civil service inspector, and prosecutor to consider him a suspect…


Where could I possibly start?


Such a mindset prevails in this country that when it comes to state actors, bureaucrats, judges, and prosecutors -- who are preconditioned and brought up on the ideology of working to the state’s benefit – the issue of partisanship, which is a serious illness suffered by the country, also becomes relative, and some questions are rendered meaningless. This mindset, on occasion, puts pro-community (term commonly used to refer to the Fethullah Gülen-led movement) people, pro-government people, and others, on an equal footing.


It is a certainty that this strange dossier contains such a dimension…


However, there is no need to be so naïve either. Öneş was placed under a wiretap for 18 months. When?


During the days when debate was raging over the Oslo process, when the MİT was being cornered by the community, and when the Feb. 7, 2012 operation was being conducted…


It is clear that some people recorded Öneş’s communications for 18 months in order to collect material enabling them to tie this retired deputy undersecretary, who was poking his nose into affairs of peace, to the operation…


His thoughts lean in the same direction as well…


Shouldn’t the prosecutor and the court ask more questions and probe this dimension of the issue as well, rather than just reaching a decision on the basis of the two reports placed in front of them?


Could it be that the judge, prosecutor, writers, and opposition just looked at one side of the coin?


NOTE: I will share Cevat Öneş’s statement regarding this issue tomorrow.  

      

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