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| Ertürk at a Silent Scream rally. |
The July 15th coup attempt was reportedly spearheaded by
Gülen’s moles in the military, many of whom had been promoted to positions
cleared from officers forcibly discharged through the hoaxes whose eventual
aquittal did not mean a return to their former positions.
I admire Admiral Erürk for his thoughts, his uncompromising
upstanding nature and sheer heroism, and have quoted him more than once in my
blog. (See: "The Defense of "Retired Admiral Türker Ertürk", 13 May-Mayıs 2015, and "About ISIS or ISIL or DAESH", 2 February-Şubat 2016)
Admiral Ertürk has been tried for “insulting the President” (at a Silent Scream rally in Tekirdağ on May 13th 2014),
having called him a “dictator”. He was sentenced to 11 months, which was converted to a bulky fine. After July 15th President Erdoğan has withdrawn
all such charges as a gesture. I don’t know whether Admiral Ertürk benefited
from this, but he certainly has not become more subservient.
This is my translation of an article by Admiral Ertürk from
August 5th 2016.
Speaking on the GPS
program presented by Fareed Zakaria
on CNN International, Fethullah Gülen said
he had nothing to do with attempted coup, likening the incidents of July 15th
to a “Hollywood film”, calling it
all a scenario.
Gülen was right, the coup attempt was really a film. To put
it more correctly, it was a TV series, on air since hustle-bustle days of the
“Cold War”. It has been directed, scripted and released a by the guiding mind in
the country where Gülen has been residing fort he past 17 years.
WHAT WAS THE AIM OF THE COUP?
Gülen was
pretty much one of the oldest actors of this series! The government in power, erstwhile
comrade now accused by Gülen, has
been a role player since 2002. And this is still not the full lineup of
criminals! From politics to media, from business circles to the state
bureaucracy and the military many took part in this series scripted by the guiding mind, some unknowingly, some for economic gain or political ascension-
and they still do.
On the July 15th installment of this long running series
targeted the Republic of Turkey, its
founding ideology, and the Turkish Armed
Forces. It had been assessed that, whether successful or not, such a coup
would serve the interest of the mastermind, and the button was pushed by way of
manipulation of the Cemaat
(Djemaat=“Commuity”, for Gülen Community). President Erdoğans possible
reactions after a failed coup attempt, how he would see this as an opportunity,
and how even this would serve the cause, had all been taken into account.
WHO WAS MOST RESPONSIBLE?
Turkey’s
interests and security demanded that the pro-Cemaat
substructure be flushed out of the state, most urgently the Turkish Armed Forces. But it wasn’t
done, wasn’t allowed to be done!
I look at television and the written press; with some small
exceptions, they are still maintaining a anti-national, unethical stance. They
are mostly interviewing people victimized by the Cemaat, telling us what a devil Gülen is, what a great struggle the ruling government is putting up
for democracy, and thereby misleading the public, hiding the greater picture,
and barring those capable of revealing it from the screens. In truth, the
greatest responsibility of the victimization of said victims rests on the
shoulders of the AKP government.
Once you fail to say as much, victim or not, you too become a tool of the
operation.
WHO
HELPED THE COUP?
Facing civil war, seperation and economic collapse, left
defenceless against imperialist plans, we cannot explain away Turkey’s
situation through “the attempted coup of
July 15th” and “Cemaat” alone.
The greatest responsibility of the attempted coup of July
15th lies with the AKP government, having in time aided and abetted the Cemaat
in penetrating and organizing itself to an extent it could stage a coup, having
lent unconditional support to its illegal operations, (Admiral Ertürk here refers
to the Ergenekon , “Sledgehammer” and
related hoaxes that crippled the military).
WHO
WERE FOOLED AND MISLED?
Any declaration that avoids saying as much, avoids pointing
out that the guiding mind behind it all is the USA, avoids mentioning the New World Order and sub-projects like the
Greater Middle East Project
supporting it, is a declaration made in ignorance, falsehood, or with a secret
agenda.
Saying “we were
fooled and misled” does not acquit one from responsibility. Assuming it
does, what will happen if the coup plotters say in court “Fethullah Gülen fooled and misled us by exploiting our pure, clean
Islamic sensibilities”? Or if they go further and say “we acted together (with the AKP government) on the illegal Ergenekon
and 'Sledgehammer' hoaxes, we want them to be tried as well”? After all, those
were no different from the July 15th coup attempt; they really constituted the
first step.
THE MENZİLCİ AND THE NAQSHBANDÎ
The claim that the AKP is struggling for democracy and
justice is a big lie. In their 14 years in power they have whittled away at
democracy, justice, human rights, the founding principles of our Republic, and last but not least,
secularism, the sine qua non of Muslim countries especially. It is their
contiuous support of the Cemaat that
has brought about a milieu suitable for a coup.
So the Gülen Cemaat
(“community”) is bad, does that make the “Menzilci” (a new sect derived from Naqshbandî) and “Naqshbandî” any
better? One is just as bad as the other. There is only one sect for the modern
man and that is the “sect of Science”.
There are no individuals in communities and
sects, only people who have surrendered their minds, lost their freedom, herded
into easily manipulated masses. In our day all sects and communities, including
politics, incorporate at least one of the trio of power, money and sex.
DOES
JULY 15TH RESEMBLE PREVIOUS COUPS?
You are closing down military high schools but meanwhile
you are trying to open the way for passage from clerical high schools into
military education. Excuse me for saying so but this cannot be attributed to
good intentions. No version of “Political
Islam” should be allowed into the Turkish
Armed Forces.
The coup attempt of July 15th is a retrograde uprising of
“Political Islam” and is unlike any of the previous coups. The fact that they
were wearing uniforms does not change this. The real target of this attempted
coup was not the AKP rule but the
founding ideology of the Republic of
Turkey. The previous coups targeted the government in power uniquely. If
this last coup had been successful, the greatest number of ministers would have
come from the ranks of the AKP, even
the Prime Minister.
With my respects.
This article was published on August 5th 2016, on an independent internet newssite known as OdaTV.
OdaTV was once the object of Gülen's wrath. It had been raided by the police on February 4th 2011, on orders of state prosecutor Zekeriya Öz, a known Gülen "community" adherent. After Gülen and Erdoğan parted ways, and
Erdoğan launched a crackdown on the Gülen's “parallel state”, the once
all-powerful state prosecutor quietly slipped out of the country to avoid arrest, on August 10th 2015.
