TÜRKÇE
Dün 18 Mart’tı, Çanakkale Deniz Savaşı’nın yıldönümü.
Avrupa’da savaş düğümlenmiş, savaşan tarafların askerleri
çamurlu siperlere saplanmış, ilerleyemiyorlardı. “Bahriye Lordu” Winston
Churchill’in önerisi, bir sıkımlık canı kalmış Osmanlılara saldırmak, bir deniz
harekâtıyla Çanakkale Boğazı’ndan geçivererek zaten sahile kurulmuş olan
Payitahtın üzerine toplarını çevirmek, hem Osmanlıları oyundan çıkartmak, hem de çökmekte olan
Rusya’yı destekleyecek bir yol açmaktı.
Savaşı kazanmak isteyen İngiliz için son derece akıllıca
ve mantıklı bir taktik! Savaşan taraf olarak tabii ki bunu yapmaya çalışacak-
yapabilirse!
Ama bizim açımızdan durum açık: yüz yıldır giderek
küçülen Osmanlı, şimdi Türk anayurduna yapılacak bir saldırıyı göğüslemek
durumundaydı. Orada düşman durduruldu, uzun ve zorlu bir mücadele sonunda geri
gönderildi. Çanakkale savaşı 1919’da başlayacak olan Milli Mücadele’nin ön
provası gibiydi. Türkiye Cumhuriyeti’ne giden yolun Çanakkale’de başladığını
düşünmek yanlış olmaz.
1915’in Şubat ayının sonuna doğru İngiliz ve Fransız
gemileri gözükmeye başladılar, 19 Şubat’ta istihkâmları bombarımanla
zayıflatmaya, mayınları temizlemeye başladılar. Büyük saldırı 18 Mart’ta
gerçekleşti, ve geçemediler.
Müttefik donanması Çanakkale Boğazı'nı zorluyor, 8 Mart 1915.
Anıt Kabir panoramalalarından; bunlar Rus ve Türk ressamları tarafından hazırlanmıştı.
Burada hepimizin tanıdığı Seyit Onbaşı; ağır top güllelerini kaldıran mekanizma parçalandığı için kas gücüyle durumu çözüyor.
Sadece donanma gücüyle geçemeyeceklerini görünce kara
birlikleriyle Gelibolu yarımadasını almak yoluna gittiler. Bunun için İngiltere
ve Fransa hem kendi ülkelerinden hem de denizaşırı mülklerinden çok sayıda asker
topladılar; en çok hatırlananlar da “Anzak” diye tanınan Avustralya ve Yeni
Zelanda birlikleriydi.
Döke saça çıkartmalar yapıldı; hele ki dikkati başka tarafa çekerek Osmanlıları bölmek için Anadolu tarafına çıkartılan Fransızlar büsbütün
boşuna telef oldular. Zorlu savaş aylarca sürdü, nihayet 10 Aralık 1915’ten
itibaren müttefikler usul usul ayrılmaya başladılar, 9 Ocak 1916’da da son
Müttefik askeri de yarımadayı terketti.
Dün 18 Mart Deniz Savaşı’nın yıldönümüydü. Adet üzere Çanakkale günün
anlam ve öneminin gerektirdiği törenlere sahne oldu! Ve doğal olarak Başbakan da oradaydı.
Başbakan’ın durumu zordu! Kendisi “Türk”
kavramının çıkarılacağı, milli olmayan bir yeni anayasa yaratmak için uğraşanların
başında! Ülkemizden ayrılmak, iri bir toprak parçasını da beraberinde
götürmek isteyen “İmralı” cephesiyle de hedef birliği içinde olduğunun artık gizlisi
saklısı kalmadı ama o cepheden esen nispet yaparcasına olumlu hava yine de insanın sinirlerini zorluyor! Bir de o
“ayaklar altına alınan milliyetçilik” lâfı var ki, hâla kulaklarda çınlıyor;
bıraksan bu balık hafızalı millet unutacak ama Ulusal da hatırlatıp duruyor!
Şimdi bu şartlarda ne desin Çanakkale’de Başbakan? Mayın
tarlasından geçer gibi geçti kelimelerin arasından, “birlik” dedi, “şehitler”
dedi, ne kadar doyurucu oldu bilmiyorum!
Aydınlık, 19 Mart 2012,
Mustafa Bilgin.
Aynı gün Silivri’de Ergenekon
savcıları “Esas hakkında mütalaa” denen ve benim yeni öğrendiği hukuki işlemi
yaptılar. (Neler öğrendik bu arada!) Komutanı, subayı, aydını, gazetecisi, profesörü, sağlıklısı,
kanserlisi, ve lezzet katsın diye çorbaya atılan birkaç gerçek suçlusuyla 65
sanığa müebbet (bazısı "ağıraştırılmış"- ne demekse), 96 sanığa da 15 yıla
kadar hapis! Kimler kimler yok ki: İşçi Partisi Genel Başkanı Doğu Perinçek
(müebbet), oğlu Mehmet Perinçek (15 yıla kadar), eski Genelkurmay Başkanı Em.
Org. İlker Başbuğ (müebbet), gazeteci yazar Tuncay Özkan (müebbet), Başkent
Üniversitesi Kurucu Rektörü ve Zonguldak Milletvekili Prof. Dr. Mehmet Haberal
(müebbet), Em. Albay Dursun Çiçek (müebbet), İnönü
Üniversitesi eski rektörü Prof. Dr. Fatih Hilmioğlu (müebbet- artık kaç günü kaldıysa işte).
Ergenekon "mütalaa" tepkisi, Ankara, 19 Mart 2013i
(Görüntü medyadan.)
İşgâle geleni durdurabildiğimiz günü kutlarken esir alınan aydınımıza, askerimize abartık cezalar biçilmesi, İmralı’dan esen bahar sevinciyle birleşince insanların aklına ne gelsin bekliyorsunuz? Çanakkale bu sefer geçildi, 1922’de vazgeçmek zorunda kaldıkları Sevr’i BOP kılığına sokmuşlar tekrar karşımıza çıkarıyorlar demezler mi? Hem o zaman olduğu gibi işbirlikçi bir hükümet de bulmuşlar, bir de küçük menfaatler ve din afyonuyla uyutulan bir millet.
İngiliz The Star gazetesinden, 24 Şubat 1920.
Karikatürist: David Low.
Türk'ün arkasındaki levhanın üzerindeki yazı:
"Burada anavatanın çağrısı üzerine Avrupa'yı Türk hastalığından kurtarmak için neşe ile ölüme giden 100 000 Anzak yatıyor!"
Kâğıttaki not.
"Sevgili Türk- Lütfen Kontantinopolis'te kal!"
Resim altı yazısı:
"Son Gülen..."
The Star, February 24th, 1920 (David Low)
ENGLISH The footnote links do not work; you will have to scroll down to to the footnotes for expanded information. Opening the blogsite on two seperate windows and keeping one on the footnotes will make it easier to go back and forth. Sorry for the inconvenience, I'm no expert!.
Other links should work.
Yesterday was March 18th, anniversary of the naval victory at the
Dardanelles.
The first world war was running its second year when the allies
devised the plan to force the Dardanelles, sail through to Istanbul, the highly
exposed coastal capital of the weakened Ottoman Empire, knock it out of the
game, and simultaneously open a supply route to Russia which was smarting in
its resistance against the Germans.
There is plenty of literature about the Dardenelles
campaign, so curious readers will have no trouble getting to sources. The
importance for us is that, unlike the vast territories that the Ottoman Empire
had been losing in a string of defeats stretching over a century, this
was an assault on the Turkish homeland, and the Turks managed to halt the enemy.
It is seen as a precursor of the War of Independence which culminated with the
new Republic eight years later.
Brainchild of Sir Winston Churchill, First Lord of the
Admirality, it was originally concieved as a primarily naval operation. French
and British battleships started testing the defences on February 19th, 1915 and
an all out attack was launched on March 18th. It ended disastrously for the
Allies, and the idea of forcing their way through with only naval power was
abandoned. Vast numbers of infantry were shipped in from Britain, France, and
their dominions and colonies, most famously the Anzac from Australia and New
Zealand. A bitter struggle of trench warfare and bayonet attacks, mostly on the
Gallipoli penninsula but also on the Anatolian mainland across the water, stretched
on for nine more months, until the Allies started quietly slipping out on
December 10th, completing the evacuation on January 9th, 1916.
The Alled fleet unsuccessfully tries to force through the straits on March 18th, 1915. This is a part of a panorama-mural in Atatürk's mausoleum (Anıt Kabir), painted by a group of Russian and Turkish artists. The event depicted is the story of Corporal Seyit who is said to have lifted the extremely heavy shells with sheer muscle power when the loading mechanism was smashed.
There were ceremonies on the Gallipoli penninsula
yesterday, with Prime Minister Erdoğan in the unenviable position of having to
make a patriotic speech while government talks with the imprisoned PKK leader
are still going on, the AKP push for an “un-nationalistic” and “un-Turkish”
Constitution at full force, and his own televised words of “trodding every kind
of nationalism underfoot” are still ringing in our ears.[1]
He tried to negotiate his way through the words, speaking of “unity” when AKP
policies have been dividing the nation every which way.
Cartoon from today's Aydınlık (March 19th, 2013): Prime Minister Erdoğan orating about "one flag, one nation" while the spectators, confused about the new "un-nationalistic" Constitution, comment:
-I'm confused, what nation are we going to call ourselves from now on?
-"TheOne Nation", I guess!
(By Mustafa Bilgin)
On the very same day, the Prosecutors of the notorious Ergenekon trials in Silivri have finally
communicated their legal assessments and asked for life sentence for 65
defendants, 15 for 96.[2]
The “terribily dangerous terror organization” they call Ergenekon hasn’t a single terrorist aim. (Though some unrelated criminal acts have been linked to it for effect!) The caches of arms found
as a precursor to the witchhunt, and obligingly fed to the public opinion to
the obliging pro-government press into action, have always been highly suspect.[3] In
many cases the witnesses have been unsavoury characters already in custody,
open to any offer to reduce their sentences.[4]
Included in this list of honor are Doğu Perinçek, Leader
of the Labor Party (life), his son Mehmet Perinçek (up to 15 years), Ret. Gen.
İlker Başbuğ, ex Chief of Staff (life)[5],
Tuncay Özkan, author and journalist (life), Prof. Dr. Mehmet Haberal, founder
and Rector of Bilgi University, Ankara and CHP Member of Parliament for Zonguldak,
elected while in custody (life),[6] Ret. Gen. Hurşit Tolon, ex-Commander of the 1st Army,Prof. Dr. Fatih Hilmioğlu, academician, ex-rector of İnönü University, Malatya,
now in tha advanced stages of cancer (life- or what’s left of it!)
This, on the very day we commemorate how we stopped the
invader trying to push through the Dardanelles with an imposing fleet, this
shameless persecution of the intellectuals and guardians of the Secular
Republic, so brazenly targeted by the AKP government, so shamelessly harrassed
and incarcerated by a conspiring judiciary! This, aggravated with messages of gleeful
optimism chirping in from the PKK-Öcalan front, inevitably raises the spectre of a new
invasion and partition. After all, this whole set-up is in aid of the rearrangement of the Middle-East according to US wishes. The feeling is that this time, the enemy has broken through the Straits of the Dardanelles, taken our army and
our intellectuals prisoner, and will finally put into effect the Treaty of Sèvres,[7]
complete with a collaborationist government and a population dumbed down with
consumerism and religion; a project it has had to abandon in 1922 because a
brave patriot, veteran of the Gallipoli defense, had managed to unite the
people and resist.
There were demonstrations at many urban centers in Turkey regarding the Prosecutor's legal assessments today. March 19th 2013. Aboıve: Ankara.
Slogan on the banner: "We can knock that wall down. We can!"
(Image from the media.)
[1] PKK
leader Abdullah Öcalan was captured in 1999, tried and, on June 29th, 1999,
condemned to death for leading the PKK insurgency that cost thousands of lives. EU harmonization laws banning capital punishment saved his
neck and his sentence was commuted to life imprisonment. He has been confined to prison on İmralı island but with the AKP’s
policies his political weight has been growing steadily. Now most of the
Turkish press speak of “talks with İmralı”,
“the response from İmralı”, “the views of İmralı” as if the island prison is a seat of power of a sovereign
nation. Öcalan (or İmralı) is even
party to parliamentary talks over a new constitution; a constituion that
proposes to eliminate the word “Turkish” because ethnic Kurds apparently resent
it. There is widespread conviction that the AKP is simply carrying out a US
agenda, and that even the AKP project of replacing nationhood with religion as
a bond between citizens is a part of this grand scheme. For Erdoğan's misguided
outburst about “trodding every kind of nationalism underfoot” (both Turkish and
Kurdish, to be fair) of February 17th,
2012, see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuXMYjt_AN4
[3] The first
arms cache was supposedly found in a house in Ümraniye, İstanbul, on June 12th,
2007, the first of several. There is
much suspicion that they were all planted in advance, enforced by the strange
decision of the court to destroy this cruicial bit of evidence. The police raid was
prompted by a phone call . A common pattern was established: a denouncement,
sometimes by an unidentified informant, sometimes by someone already in custody
offered a chance to better his lot, followed
by a search, and the uncovering
of a document which leads to a cache of weapons, such as the buried weapons found in
Gölbaşı, Ankara, on January 8th, 2009, after the “discovery” of a sketched map during
a search in the home of İbrahim Şahin, former deuty-chief of the Special
Operations Office (Özel Harekât Dairesi),
or the hard disc found in a sack placed under the fllorboards of the Naval Base
at Gölcük on December 6th, 2010 ,which
lead to another cache in Poyrazköy, Istanbul between 21st and
24th of April, 2011and was used to give credibility to the "Sledgehammer" plot allegation. (See “Sledgehammer”, 6 September-Eylül 2012, “Sledgehammer Verdicts”,
22 September-Eylül 2012, “Hammering the Sledgehammer”, 5 February-Şubat 2013 .)
[4] According
to Aydınlık of December 13th, 2012,
the best and most honorable of the nation is being persecuted with the
testimonies of thieves, murderers and
rapists (like Yüksel Dilsiz, convicted of raping eight underage boys, Osman
Yıldırım, of robbery and murder, Şemdin Sakık, PKK militant held responsible for
the killing of 33 soldiers, “secret witness Aydos”, army deserter and swindler,
caught stealing sheep.) Tuncay Güney, arrested
on March 1st 2001 for a fraud involving an autombile sale, gave the police
incriminating information that was used to launch the Ergenekon affair. Soon after that he was free in the US, and
speeking from the safety of his new Canadian home, he gave a televised interview on
SkyTurk on February 8th, 2013 where he openly declared that his
statements in police custody had been made under torture. (See “Makes You Want to Scream”, February 12th,
2013.)
[5] I make
some reference to Gen. Başbuğ in “Silivri, 18-02-2013”, 25 February- Şubat 2013.
[6] See “TheFlag and the Ribbon”, 30 May-Mayıs 2012.
[7] Treaty
of Sèvres, August 10th, 1920, signed between the Allied powers and the defeated
Ottoman Empire, imposed very heavy conditions including the partition what was left of
the country, including the Anatolian homeland. (See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Sèvres)
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