Frankly, I never really discussed this matter much in this column. However, I couldn’t help myself after seeing a group of my close friends also posting numerous tweets on the night of the “release order” along the lines of, “What’s going to happen now? Weren’t they the big fish? The neighborhood media failed. The accusations against human rights advocates and activists turned out to be invalid.
Let it first be specified that everyone is assumed innocent until proven guilty. Period. They were only released, nobody has been acquitted. Period. Let’s also not overlook the fact that some have been banned from leaving the country. Period.
Turkey is in a relentless fight. One of the most important legs of this fight is the part involving the influence agents. A significant amount of the apparatuses among us are comprised of them.
I will not repeat what public opinion makers, what some of those who have infiltrated nongovernmental organizations that are able to organize mass protests are capable of doing.
But I guess you all know that part of those who organized the Gezi provocation are affiliated with Turkey’s almost half-a-century-old nongovernmental organizations and chambers.
You also know that some 1,000 foreign families (mostly German) left Beyoğlu once they were exposed after the Gezi provocation.
We know that there were several foreign influence agents among us during the Gezi Park incidents. Don’t forget, on the night Bezmi Alem Valide Sultan Mosque in Dolmabahçe was invaded, a dozen foreign “elements” were inside the mosque under the guise of being health staff.
Only foreign influence agents?
Shall we forget what Can Dündar did to Turkey, what he was accused of and who later defended him and how, that Turkey was pressured, with whom the foreigner who came took selfies with and what message they gave and to whom?
Really, who was Joe Biden?
Some of the defendants of the case known as the Büyükada case are foreign citizens and are the members or representatives of certain nongovernmental organizations. Some of these nongovernmental organizations are being supported by international capital. The march started by opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, using Enes Berberoğlu as excuse, for a provocation just like the Gezi Park provocation, was a good climate.
Remember, back then it was said that the march would not end in Istanbul, that it would continue until Edirne. Because the Peoples’ Democratic Party’s (HDP) Co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş was being held in prison in Edirne.
The sole plan of the “Joint June Movement” was to achieve what they couldn’t during the Gezi Park incidents. Their aim was to melt the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK)-affiliated HDP in the same pot as the Kemalists and topple the legitimate government through mass demonstrations.
What had Selin Sayek Bökesaid while she was the CHP’s deputy chair?
The July 15 coup and invasion attempts had not yet happened. However, the Fetullah Terrorist Organization’s (FETÖ) Dec. 17/25 judicial coup attempt, the National Intelligence Organization (MİT) trucks issue and the Feb. 7 issue had taken place. The National Security Council (MGK) which gathered had in April 2015 identified the organization that was known back then as the “parallel structure” as the “legal-looking illegal organization.”
Whereas everybody knew that many nongovernmental organizations networked in Turkey were established and financed by this organization. They were all legal. They were all supposedly pursuing “the improvement of democracy, building an open community, interfaith dialogue.”
When FETÖ was called an “armed terrorist organization,” criticisms were made saying, “Those who weep all night for an ant are called terrorists. Armed too. So where are their weapons?” Because this organization’s legislation was used as a guise. All the way until the night of July 15. We saw that night that those who murdered the 250 martyrs and who are responsible for the 2,000 people wounded, are the bloody-handed FETÖ members.
We saw one other thing on July 15. A power above the FETÖ members. In other words, those who use FETÖ as a tool. The most obvious evidence is the currently arrested American consulate personnel Metin Topuz.
The clergyman who was arrested in İzmir, for example.
One other thing... Did you carefully read the first statement that came from Germany when the Büyükada case defendants were released the other night? They are saying, “We are happy for them, our thoughts are with those who are still in prison...”
So there are Germans who are still arrested in Turkey. I wonder why?
As you can see, FETÖ is not the only legal-looking illegal organization. There are still many more organizations. Most of them are networked under the guise of “civil society.”
Who was Al Capone? What had he done? How was he caught? I would like to remind you.
Al Capone was the U.S.’s most popular gangster. He was one of the most important actors of the underground world. However, he would do his job so skillfully that the American state could not catch him whatever it did. All the way until discovering that he evaded paying taxes.
A giant like Al Capone was tried and convicted for tax evasion.
Yet the state knew, Al Capone was a master in illegal operations. In other words, he was the founder of legal-looking illegal organizations.
His illegality can be proven through a minor tax debt.
There are many in Turkey who are like Al Capone. There are many who conduct illegal business through Al Capone’s methods.
Yet, they are so organized and hide behind the laws so well that it is not easy to catch them.
Wouldn’t it be good if we looked at the Büyükada case from this perspective too?
