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    THE WORLD'S BIGGEST TERROR GANG!

    by Burak Bekdil

    Hurriyet Daily News
    Jan 25 2012
    Turkey

    Turkish justice, notoriously capable of uncovering terror gangs from
    published and unpublished books, cartoons, anti-government slogans,
    posters, headwear, eggs, badges and every other trivial item, has
    been unable to uncover the gang that killed Hrant Dink. That is just
    normal. The Turkish justice could not have arrested all members of
    the gang because Turkish prisons are not big enough to house millions
    of inmates.

    Upon the murder of Mr. Dink, I wrote in this column:

    "[Who killed Hrant Dink?] A teenager, according to the full forensic
    report; the same teenager, according to his own testimony. 'The
    murderer state,' according to left-wing fanatics. Mr. Dink himself
    betrayed the lands where 'he was fed,' according to right-wing
    fanatics. The secularist state establishment, according to the
    Islamists. The Islamist government, according to secularists. The
    'deep state,' according to deep state-connoisseurs.

    Foreign secret services, according to conspiracy-connoisseurs [...] The
    blood-thirsty Turks, the descendants of genocide-makers, according to
    the Turk-hating Armenians. The Armenians, according to Armenian-hating
    Turks. Xenophobic Turks, according to the separatist Kurds. Separatist
    Kurds, according to xenophobic Turks. Article 301 and the jurists who
    convicted Mr. Dink of insulting Turkishness, according to the liberals.

    "Ogun Samast who pulled the trigger is no different than his mentor who
    had bombed a McDonald's restaurant because the eatery was 'a symbol
    of American imperialism'... or the teenager who killed a Catholic
    priest because the man was 'an enemy of Islam.' Or even anyone who
    belonged to the crowd of a few thousand people who wanted to lynch
    a handful of youths because they protested prison conditions.

    Mr. Samast is only a daring/losing example in a bunch of nearly 4
    million Turkish young men between the ages of 15 and 19 whose cultural
    myths are no richer than the book 'Those Crazy Turks' and the film
    'Valley of the Wolves.'

    "Turkey, in the last few decades, has 'produced' more young people
    than it could afford to healthily take care of, i.e., with education,
    jobs, social security, etc. Inevitably, an alarmingly large part of
    these young men and women has "gone astray." Some have joined the
    outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK; some have joined this or
    that of the mushrooming sects of Islam, becoming, thus, the soldiers of
    Islam; some have gone to fight the 'infidels' in lands as far away as
    Pakistan and Afghanistan, in Iraq or Chechnya; some have become petty
    criminals and, some, as in the case of Mr. Samast, have preferred to
    'defend the honor of Turkishness.'

    "In fact, they are the same thing although they ostensibly represent
    opposite or different political doctrines - it is only a matter of
    where and how they grow up. The PKK man who kills in the name of
    'independent Kurdistan' is the same man who kills a priest or a judge
    in the name of 'Islam,' or the man who killed Mr. Dink in the name
    of 'Turkishness;' He is the same man who goes to the local Internet
    cafe for child porn, violent computer games or to read the daily
    brainwashing political material from his choice of radical website,"
    ("Who killed Hrant Dink," the Daily News, Jan. 23, 2007).

    As tens of thousands marched last week to defend Mr. Dink's honor
    in a peaceful march, after a court verdict ruled out "organized
    crime/terror" in this murder case, daily Hurriyet columnist Ahmet
    Hakan commented on the social media side of the "Dink affair." A
    frustrated Mr. Hakan concluded that a) Other [Mr.] Samasts are among
    us, b) The court verdict is in no way surprising, and c) Life for an
    Armenian in Turkey is really very risky.

    That is the heart of the matter. It is a big terror gang. Too big to
    contain, control or jail... In vain, I am hoping I shall not have to
    reprint in 2017 excerpts from my 2007 article.


    From: Baghdasarian
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