TÜRKÇE
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Meşhur 12 Eylül’ün “darbeci generalleri” yargılanıyor.
Sadece ikis hakim karşısına çıkabiliyor, çünkü sadece
ikisi hayatta. Kenan Evren 95, Tahsin Şahinkaya 87 yaşında. Hastane yatağından,
tele-konferans metoduyla kendilerini savunuyorlar.
Tahsin Şahinkaya ve Kenan Evren tele-yargılanmada.
(Görüntü medyadan)
12 Eylül, Darbe, Darbeci kavramlarıyla ilgili naçizane
görşlerimi fikir özgürlüğü hakkıma sığınarak bu siteden paylaşmıştım.
(Bkz. "Ramazan, 30 Ağustos ve Bay İnanılmaz", 17 Ağustos 2012)
Sizlerle henüz paylaşmadığım bir yazımı burada bilvesile sunmayı uygun gördüm.
Yazıyı 8
Ekim 2010’da e-postayla Sözcü gazetesinde köşe yazarı Mehmet Türker’e göndermişim.
“Sayın
Mehmet Türker
“Geçen gün
mutfağımızda badana yaparken yere serili gazetelerde bir yazı gözüme ilişti. 16
Eylül 2010 tarihli Sözcü gazetesinden sizin makalenizmiş.
“Uzun zamandır gazete
okumayı, büyük ölçüde televizyon seyretmeyi bırakmış bir vatandaşım. Çünkü bir
şey değiştiremediğim için sinirlerimi bozduğumla kalıyorum. Badana vesilesiyle
perhizim bozulmuş oldu.
“Sözkonusu yazınızın
başlığı 'Ülkeyi 12 Eylül’e götürenlerle kim hesaplaşacak?' idi.
“Yazınızı okudum ve
herkesin ipe sapa gelmez bir sürü laf ürettiği bu ortamda kimsenin ağzından
çıkaramadığı baklayı ifade etme cesaretini gösterdiğinizi gördüm ve içim
ferahladı. Bunu için teşekkürler!
“Hükümetin ordumuza karşı takındığı tavrı anlamak kolay; amaçlarına ulaşmalarına engel olabilecek en güçlü kurumu tabii ki bertaraf etmek isteyecekler.
“Muhalefettekilerin takındıkları tavrın da aynı düşünceyi
yankılamasını anlamak ilk bakışta daha zor ('bütün 12 Eylül’lere karşıyız!'- CHP referandum sloganı!) Ama geçmişten bugüne siyasilerimizin geliştirdikleri
stile bakınca izahat meydanda: “olur a belki bir gün iktidar bana geliverir, o
zaman istediği gibi at oynatan ben olayım, ayağıma dolaşacak asker masker
olmadan” düşüncesiyle 12 Eylül’ün belki de gerekli olmuş olabileceğini
ima bile etmekten kaçınıyorlar. Hele ki ülkeyi 'uçurum ya da darbe' kavşağına
getirenlerin siyasilerin kendi beceriksizlikleri (bulabileceğim en hafif
kelime) olduğunu unutturmak için her türlü kıvırmayı hak görüyorlar. Kendi
günahı olmayan ilk taşı fırlatsın!
“12 Eylül’de ordu
susup oturmaya devam etseydi, o gün nasıl bir gün olacaktı? Ya 13 Eylül? Ya
14’ü? Kaç kişi daha sokak ortasında vurulacaktı? ('Analar ağlamasın!') Kaç
otobüs taranacaktı? Nereler yakılacaktı, bombalanacaktı? 12 Eylül 1981’e kadar
ülke nereye varmış olacaktı? Ya da 82’de?
“Bir tarafta hükümetin
yandaş bir basın ve kuklalaşmış adalet mekanizmasıyla son derece kompetan bir
şekilde yürüttüğü Atatürk Cumhuriyeti’ni kökten değiştirme, hatta belki de
tasfiye etme programı kapsamındaki iftiralar (evet, iftiralar; yoksa
Ergenekon’a ve Balyoz’a inandınız mı?) bir taraftan muhalefetteki bugünlük
Atatürkçülerin küçük hesapları ordumuzun elini günden güne zayıflatmakta.
Cumhuriyeti ve ülkeyi korumakla görevli bir kurumun hiçbir zaman ve şartta
müdahele etme hakkı olmadığı fikrine elbirliğiyle herkesi alıştırdılar. “İrtica
ile mücadele eylem planı” davası ile irtica ile mücadele suç oldu, irtica
yasallaştı!
“Anayasanın
değişmez maddelerini de değiştirmeye başladıklarında hangi otorite “bunu
yapamazsınız” diyecek ve yapmalarını engelleyecek?
“Askerimize
düşman olanlar tamamen dizginleri ele alınca kendi orduları olmayacak mı? “Ne
takunya ne postal” derken postalları takunyalılar giyince artık çok geç
olacaktır.
“Bana
gelince, benim bu körlükten, bu nankörlükten, bu yalan dolan dolu laf
kalabalığından, topundan sıktım sıyrıldı; mutfağın badanasına dönüyorum. Yere
de artık aktüalite gazeteleri sereceğim!”
Sözümde
duramadım,o günden beri gittikçe daha fazla gazete okur oldum. Yapılanlar
karşısında insan kapısını kapatıp dünyadan kendini tecrit edemiyor ki!
Kenan Evren’in hasta yatağından yaptığı savunmasında şu sözler var:
“Demokrasi’nin olduğu yerde ihtilal olmaz. Siyasiler
beceriksizliğini askere fatura etmeye çalışıyor. Türk Silahlı Kuvvetleri
iktidar olma meraklısı değildir. Biz, o gün doğru olanı yaptık, bugün olsa yine
aynı şekilde o ihtilali yapardık...”
(22 Kasım 2012 tarihli Sözcü gazetesinin ön sayfasından aktardım.)
23 Kasım 2012’de Sözcü gazetesindeki köşe yazısında
Mehmet Türker son drercede büyük bir cesaretle şöyle bir başlık atmış:
“İKİ CESUR ASKER:
EVREN VE ŞAHİNKAYA”
Yazısında şöyle sözler var:
“Bugün intikam
çığlıkları atanların çoğu o yıllarda 5-10 yaşlarındaydı!..
“Darbeye giden
yolların taşlarının siyasetçilerin beceriksizliği, öngörüsüzlüğü,
umursamazlığı, politik ve ideolojik hırslarıyla döşendiğinden habersizdiler...
“Türkiye’nin bu
siyasetçiler yüzünden ne denli bir kaos yaşadığını, insanların sokağa çıkmaya
korktukları, İstanbul, Ankara ve İzmir gibi büyük kentlerde kurtarılmış
bölgeler yaratıldığını bilmezlerdi!..
...
“...en kısa yoldan
tarifini yaparsak, bugün yargılanması gerekenler darbeyi yapanlar değil,
darbeye sebep olanlardır!..
“Darbe yapmak suç ise, onlar bu suçu bin defa daha fazla işlemişlerdir!..”
“Darbe yapmak suç ise, onlar bu suçu bin defa daha fazla işlemişlerdir!..”
“Gerisi palavradır!..
“Bugün gördüğümüz
ise, mangal yütrekli iki eski askerin cesareti, kararlılığı ve direncidir!..”
“The rest is empty talk!..
“What we are seeing today is the courage,
determination and resilience of two stout-hearted old soldiers."
ENGLISH
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The “putschist generals” of the famous September 12th are
now standing trial- though “standing” is not the right word here.
The 95 year old Kenan Evren[1] and the 87 year old Tahsin
Şahinkaya[2] are both in hospital, and
could attend the trial session only through an electronic video connection. The
other three members of the group who conducted the intervention and headed the
“Council of National Security” in the ensuing period could were unable to attend attend, having
long since passed away.[3]
Tahsin Şahinkaya (left) and Kenan Evren (right) on video- connected trial, having to take it lying down!
(Image from the media.)
Exercising my right to free speech, I have already shared
on this site my views on September 12th, on coups, and on the “putschists” who
conducted them. (See “Ramadan, August 30th, and Mr. Incredible”, from 17
August- Ağustos- 2012.)
Today I would like to share with you something I had written
well before I even started this blog.
I had sent it by e-mail on October 8th, 2010, to
columnist Mehmet Türker of the newspaper Sözcü,
in response to an artcle he had written.
“Dear Mehmet Türker
“I was painting our kitchen the other day when, from
among the newspapers spread out on the floor, an article caught my attention.
It turned out to be your column in the Sözcü
of September 16th, 2010.
“I am a citizen who has given up reading newspapers, and
for the most part even watching television. Since I am powerless to change
anything, I only end up ruining my nerves. This paint job caused me to break
my fasting.
“The headline of your column was “Who is to settle
scores with those who led the country to September 12th?”
“I read your article and, in these times where everybody
seems to be babbling this or that kind of nonsense, I was refreshed to find someone who has the
courage to come out and say the one thing no one dares to spit out. For this I offer
my thanks.
“It is easy to understand the negative attitude of the
government towards our armed forces: it’s the strogest institution with the
capacity to thwart their designs, so they naturally want to neutralize it.
“At first glance, It is harder to explain similar sentiments voiced by the
opposition. ('we are against every September 12!'- CH.P slogan for the
referendum![4])
But looking at the style developed by our politicians over the years, their
thinking becomes clearer: “maybe one day, it will be my turn at the top, then it’ll
be my day to do as I please, and I certainly won’t want any nuisance, military
or otherwise, to keep me in check.” That’s why they dare not even suggest that
September 12th might have been necessary. They consider it their right to
resort to every kind of verbal acrobatics to make us forget how their own incompetence
(the kindest word I can find) brought the nation to the terrible choice of
“revolution or the abyss”. 'He who is without sin, cast the first stone!'
“If the Armed Forces had not made a move on September
12th, what kind of a day would it have been? And the 13th? And the 14th? How
many more would be shot on the street? (‘May mothers weep no more![5]) How many buses sprayed
with bullets? How many more places burned, bombed? Where would the country be a
year later, on September 12th, 1981? And in 82?
“On the one side we have a very skillfully staged program
radically to transform and perhaps even liquidate Atatürk’s Republic, managed
through slander perpetrated through a collaborationist press and a judicial system
that behaves like puppets on strings. (Yes, slander, or do you really beieve
the "Ergenekon" and "Balyoz" plot allegations?) Ranged against this are the
“Kemalists by necessity”[6], whose own special secret
agendas further weaken the hand of the Armed Forces. Together they have
effectively cooperated in establishinga concensus that an institution, charged
with defending the country and the Republic, has no legal right to take action
to that end under any circumstance.
With the case against “the plan for
action against regressive reactionary activity”, regressive reaction became
legal while taking action against it became a crime![7]
“When they start tampering with the “unchangeable”
clauses of the Constitution, what authority will be there to stop them?[8]
“When the reins are completely in the hands of those who
have declared our armed forces the enemy, will they not muster an army of
their own? It’s all very fine to say “neither clogs, nor boots”, but when clog-wearers exchange their clogs for boots, it will be too late.[9]
“As for me, I’ve grown sick and tired of all this
blindness, this ingratitude, this load of empty talk, all of it; I am going
back to painting the kitchen. And from now on, I’ll only spread the gossip
papers on the floor.”
As it turns out, I couldn’t keep that promise for long. I
have caught myself buying and reading newspapers more and more frequently. You
can’t just shut your door and ignore all that is being done!
Answering charges from his hospital bed, this is what
Kenan Evren had to say:
“Revolutions don’t occur where there is democracy. The
politicians are trying to pass the blame of their ineptitude on to the
soldiers. The Turkish Armed Forces has no ambition to run the country. We did
what was right at that time, if it were today we would conduct the same
revolution in the same way...”
(As reported on page 1 of the Sözcü newspaper of November 22nd, 2012.)
Writing for the Sözcü
newspaper of November 23rd, 2012, columnist Mehmet Türker has displayed
exceptional courage by heading his article with these words:
“TWO BRAVE
SOLDIERS: EVREN AND ŞAHİNKAYA”
The following are excerpts from that aricle:
“Those screaming
for revenge today were mostly around 5-10 years old at the time!..
“They are unaware
that the way leading to the coup was paved with the ineptitude, the lack of
foresight, the complacency, the political and ideololgical cupidity of the
politicians...
“They
did not now the kind of chaos Turkey has had to live through because of these
politicians, how people were afraid to go out on the streets, how liberated
areas were created in big cities such as Istanbul, Ankara and İzmir!..[10]
...
“
...to put it simply,
it is not the ones who conducted the coup that need be tried today, but the
ones who caused it!..
“If a coup is a crime, they have commited it a
hundredfold more!..
“The rest is empty talk!..
[1] Full-General
Kenan Evren was the Chief of Staff at the time.
[2] Full-General
Tahsin Şahinkaya was the Commander-in- Chief of the Air Force.
[3] The
other three members of the “National Security Council (Milli Güvenlik Konseyi) were Full-General Nurettin Ersin, commander -in-Chief
of the Land Forces, Fleet Admiral Nejat Tümer, Commander-in-Chief of the Navy,
and Full-General Sedat Celasun, Commander-in-Chief of the Gendarmerie. A referendum was held for a new constitution
on Nov. 7th, 1982, and was approved with 91% in favor. This new constitution
gave the presidency to General Evren for the next seven years- the standard
legal term for that office in Turkey. The Council was dissolved after the
elections of Nov. 6th, 1983, when Turgut Özal was elected Prime Minister. With
Evren as President, the remaining members
of the “National Security Council” stayed
on for six more years as the “Presidential Council”, in accordance to ”Temporary
Law No. 2” of the new constitution. With General Evren’s retirement in 1989, the
military-influenced interim period came came to a close.
[4]
Referendum for the new constitution, as prepared by the majority party, the fundamentalist AKP It was held on
September 12th, 2010, to coincide with the anniverary of Kenan Evren’s 1980
military intervention, a choice meant to be heavy with symbolism and meaning. The
opposition CHP’s slogan, ostensibly meaning opposition to all un-democratic
pressure, did little more than play into the AKP’s hands. The new
constitution passed with less than 58% approval, as opposed to the 91% enjoyed
by the 1982 constitution it aimed to replace. Even after the approval of the
new constitution, changes have continued unabated. The CHP is the
“Republican People’s Party” (Cumhuriyet
Halk Partisi).
[5] I allude
here to the slogan the AKP used to endorse its appeasement policy with the
PKK.
[6] Many
Leftists, former Leninists and Maoists who expressed little or no sympathy to
Kemal Atatürk at the time, are among the fervent Kemalists of today.
[7]
“Regressive reaction” is my translation for irtica
(“irtidjah”): in Turkish politics it means agitation with the aim of returning
to the “Sharia” (İslamic religious law) and reverting to theocratic rule and
lifestyle with a medieval flavor. “The Plan for Action against Regressive
Reaction” was fırst “exposed” as an “conspiracy” against the government by the
newspaper Taraf on June 12th, 2009. Thereafter, it became a long-drawn court case
within the framework of the infamous “Ergenekon” conspiracy inquests.
Taraf is
the mouthpiece of Fethullah Gülen’s sect, also notorious for having launched the Balyoz (“Sledgehammer”) witchhunt with
its headlines on June 20th, 2010. See “Balyoz- The Sledgehammer”, 6 Sept. (Eylül) 2012. For Fethullah Gülen, his sect, and the AKP’s agenda see the
last part, “What is it all in aid of”, of my entry of 18 May (Mayıs) 2012 .
“May 19th- Celebrating at All Costs”.
[8] “The
“unchangeable” clauses of our Constitution are:1) The Turkish State is a Republic. 2) The Turkish Republic is a democratic,
secular State under Rule of Law, in a spirit of national solidarity and of
justice, respecting Human Rights, loyal to Kemalist Nationalism and to the main
principles delineated at the beginning. 3)The Turkish State, with its nation
and territory, compose an undivisible whole. It’s language is Turkish. It’s
flag is the red flag with a white crescent moon and star, as specified in the
relevant law. It’s national anthem is the “Independence March”. It’s capital is
Ankara. 4) The declaration in clause 1, to the effect that the form of
government is a Republic, those in clause 2 delineating the qualities of this
Republic, and the precepts in clause 3 cannot be changed, nor may such proposal
be voiced.
[9] “Clog
wearer” (takunyalı) is a negative
image of a Muslim fanatic. I allude here to the
slogan “no clogs, no boots” (Ne
takunya, ne postal) of te Çağlayan meeting on April 29th, 2007. See footnote 1 of “Reacting to the SledgehammerVerdicts”, 26 September (Eylül) 2012.
[10] Militant
groups created areas of control, called “liberated areas”, where neither
opponents nor government forces could penetrate.
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