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ORHAN KEMAL CENGİZ
[email protected]
Columnists
Zaman
30 July 2010, Friday
ORHAN KEMAL CENGİ
There were two tragic incidents in two small towns in Turkey this
week. In İnegöl and Dörtyol "angry crowds" wanted to lynch some
Kurdish citizens.
They destroyed shops and buildings, they clashed with security forces,
burnt down official vehicles, attacked police stations to get the
"suspects," who were believed to be Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK)
members. In these two small towns, events seemed to have started for
different reasons but they progressed in almost identical patterns.
"Nationalist Turks" wanted to lynch Kurds and scare them away from
their neighborhoods.
All my senses and gut feelings tell me that these incidents and other
possible provocations that may follow them are neither incidental nor
spontaneous; they had been prepared for some time.
Since 1915 not a single mass provocation or massacre has developed
spontaneously on this soil. They all had been prepared quite
masterfully and diligently. Armenian massacres in 1915, anti-Jewish
pogroms in 1934, anti-Greek and Armenian pogroms in 1955, the Alevi
massacres of 1978, the Sivas massacre of 1993, they all were carefully
planned and organized by the deep state elements in this country.
Since Turkey has never had a full confrontation with these tragic
events, with this lynching culture or with the institutional mentality
which created the necessary infrastructure for these incidents to
occur, this human eating machine has been passed from one generation
to another.
At this point I would like to share with you a quite irritating
attitude of some Westerners with regard to atrocities in Turkey. Some
Westerners are quite ready to believe whatever you say about the "deep
state" which destroyed and massacred non-Muslims in Turkey; however,
when it comes to Ergenekon and recent provocations they seem to
believe that your explanations are just "urban legends." A
schizophrenic Western mentality appears when dealing with Turkey's
past and present. They do not want to see that those who carried out
all these massacres and the so-called modernizing forces of Turkey
were exactly the same people. They do not want to see the continuation
between the Turkification of Anatolia and the modernization of Turkey.
In one of my recent articles I tried to explain the provocative role
of the Hürriyet daily in the 1955 pogroms. From this historical
perspective, do not underestimate the psychological link between
Hürriyet columnists' "innocent call" to question whether Turks and
Kurds must live together and these angry Turkish citizens' efforts to
send Kurds "back" to the Southeast. Hürriyet's writers have always
been quite inspired to show angry Turks where they can unleash their
"intense" feelings.
Who are these "angry Turks"? Most of them are "grey wolves," namely
Turkish ultranationalists. Exactly as they had played their roles in
the massacres before 1980, now they are also quite active among the
masses who tried to lynch the Kurds. Before 1980, the Turkish Gladio
used these ultranationalist groups and I am 100 percent sure that if
it is investigated thoroughly these people's connections with deep
state elements, like their ancestors' connections before the 1980
coup, will also be revealed. I would not be surprised if it is found
out that the local press and media had been playing quite a
provocative role for some time in these regions.
Today, a civil war between Kurds and Turks would be a panacea for the
return of the deep state to its full strength and for the restoration
of military guardianship. I know this is also seen by some circles as
a kind of paranoia but I have no doubt that between some segments of
the PKK and the Turkish deep state there are quite strong connections
and channels. It was not and would not be a surprise to witness PKK
attacks in regions which are most ready for these kinds of mass
provocations. Abdullah Öcalan, from his maximum security cell, had
foreseen that "there might be some clashes between Kurds and Turks in
some regions of Turkey." So we can guess the PKK will intensify its
attacks in these sensitive regions.
Just before the referendum for the constitutional amendments and at
exactly the same time that the court ordered the detention of 102 high
ranking military officers for allegedly being part of a coup plan
against this government, nothing is happening for nothing.
We will witness these well-known stories more and more: "All these
terrible things happening because of the Kurdish opening and so-called
democratization efforts," "The Turkish military cannot fight against
the PKK efficiently because they are extremely demoralized due to this
Ergenekon investigation and recent arrest waves," "All we need is to
restore the old system," "After all, Ergenekon and other such
'fantasies' were produced to weaken the secular structure of Turkey,"
"If only we could get rid of this government," and so on.
Our story is 100 years old. Can we get rid of this monster, the deep
state? Yes, if only we could stop being deceived by the fairytales
that are constantly being told on this soil. So, be alert out there,
everything depends on your awareness.
From: A. Papazian
ORHAN KEMAL CENGİZ
[email protected]
Columnists
Zaman
30 July 2010, Friday
ORHAN KEMAL CENGİ
There were two tragic incidents in two small towns in Turkey this
week. In İnegöl and Dörtyol "angry crowds" wanted to lynch some
Kurdish citizens.
They destroyed shops and buildings, they clashed with security forces,
burnt down official vehicles, attacked police stations to get the
"suspects," who were believed to be Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK)
members. In these two small towns, events seemed to have started for
different reasons but they progressed in almost identical patterns.
"Nationalist Turks" wanted to lynch Kurds and scare them away from
their neighborhoods.
All my senses and gut feelings tell me that these incidents and other
possible provocations that may follow them are neither incidental nor
spontaneous; they had been prepared for some time.
Since 1915 not a single mass provocation or massacre has developed
spontaneously on this soil. They all had been prepared quite
masterfully and diligently. Armenian massacres in 1915, anti-Jewish
pogroms in 1934, anti-Greek and Armenian pogroms in 1955, the Alevi
massacres of 1978, the Sivas massacre of 1993, they all were carefully
planned and organized by the deep state elements in this country.
Since Turkey has never had a full confrontation with these tragic
events, with this lynching culture or with the institutional mentality
which created the necessary infrastructure for these incidents to
occur, this human eating machine has been passed from one generation
to another.
At this point I would like to share with you a quite irritating
attitude of some Westerners with regard to atrocities in Turkey. Some
Westerners are quite ready to believe whatever you say about the "deep
state" which destroyed and massacred non-Muslims in Turkey; however,
when it comes to Ergenekon and recent provocations they seem to
believe that your explanations are just "urban legends." A
schizophrenic Western mentality appears when dealing with Turkey's
past and present. They do not want to see that those who carried out
all these massacres and the so-called modernizing forces of Turkey
were exactly the same people. They do not want to see the continuation
between the Turkification of Anatolia and the modernization of Turkey.
In one of my recent articles I tried to explain the provocative role
of the Hürriyet daily in the 1955 pogroms. From this historical
perspective, do not underestimate the psychological link between
Hürriyet columnists' "innocent call" to question whether Turks and
Kurds must live together and these angry Turkish citizens' efforts to
send Kurds "back" to the Southeast. Hürriyet's writers have always
been quite inspired to show angry Turks where they can unleash their
"intense" feelings.
Who are these "angry Turks"? Most of them are "grey wolves," namely
Turkish ultranationalists. Exactly as they had played their roles in
the massacres before 1980, now they are also quite active among the
masses who tried to lynch the Kurds. Before 1980, the Turkish Gladio
used these ultranationalist groups and I am 100 percent sure that if
it is investigated thoroughly these people's connections with deep
state elements, like their ancestors' connections before the 1980
coup, will also be revealed. I would not be surprised if it is found
out that the local press and media had been playing quite a
provocative role for some time in these regions.
Today, a civil war between Kurds and Turks would be a panacea for the
return of the deep state to its full strength and for the restoration
of military guardianship. I know this is also seen by some circles as
a kind of paranoia but I have no doubt that between some segments of
the PKK and the Turkish deep state there are quite strong connections
and channels. It was not and would not be a surprise to witness PKK
attacks in regions which are most ready for these kinds of mass
provocations. Abdullah Öcalan, from his maximum security cell, had
foreseen that "there might be some clashes between Kurds and Turks in
some regions of Turkey." So we can guess the PKK will intensify its
attacks in these sensitive regions.
Just before the referendum for the constitutional amendments and at
exactly the same time that the court ordered the detention of 102 high
ranking military officers for allegedly being part of a coup plan
against this government, nothing is happening for nothing.
We will witness these well-known stories more and more: "All these
terrible things happening because of the Kurdish opening and so-called
democratization efforts," "The Turkish military cannot fight against
the PKK efficiently because they are extremely demoralized due to this
Ergenekon investigation and recent arrest waves," "All we need is to
restore the old system," "After all, Ergenekon and other such
'fantasies' were produced to weaken the secular structure of Turkey,"
"If only we could get rid of this government," and so on.
Our story is 100 years old. Can we get rid of this monster, the deep
state? Yes, if only we could stop being deceived by the fairytales
that are constantly being told on this soil. So, be alert out there,
everything depends on your awareness.
From: A. Papazian