Pity the mafia that is staging what is probably the most significant political trial in modern Turkey’s history – a show trial in which more than three hundred Turkish military officers stand accused of plotting a military coup back in 2003. Since early 2010, the mafia has produced three different batches of evidence to put the defendants behind bars. Alas, each batch contains such obvious signs of forgery that they seem rather the handiwork of a bunch of crooked Keystone Kops. Naturally the only thing that keeps the trial going is the heavy support of the AKP government and its Gulenist allies.
You can read the rest of Dani’s blog entry here.
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27 Kasım 2011 22:02
Etyen Mahcuphan
AKP, Cumhuriyet’i devralıyor
Türkiye’de dindar kesimlerin Cumhuriyet rejiminin bizatihi kendisi ile ilgili sorunu olmadı.
Rejimle dindarlar arasındaki gerilim, Cumhuriyet’i kendi tekeli altına alan kadronun dışlayıcı yönetimiyle ve tepeden inme yüzeysel modernleşme zorlamasıyla ortaya çıktı. Devlet propagandası ise, bu tepkileri ‘irticai’ bir direnç olarak sunarak, baştaki ‘devrimci’ kadronun meşruiyetini sağlama almaya çalıştı. O kadar ki yıllar boyunca medya dindar kesimin en uç örneklerini gündeme getirmekle kalmadı, 28 Şubat döneminde (1997) irticanın varlığını kanıtlamak için sahte bağnaz dindarlar bile üretildi.
Bu arka plan doğal olarak cumhuriyet fikriyle barışık olmayan bir İslamî kesim algısına neden oldu. Dolayısıyla AKP iktidarlarıyla birlikte ortaya çıkan görünüm birçokları için en hafif kelimeyle şaşırtıcı. Başbakan’ın cumhuriyet rejimine, laikliğe ve demokrasiye övgü sunmadığı tek bir konuşması bile yok.
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BU arada cetinm doganin meshur aczimendileri pek tv de gorunmuyorlar, acaba buhar olup uctular mi 🙂 ????
28 Kasım 2011 04:32
Aczimendilerin lideri Müslüm Gündüz en son olarak Vakit mi Akit mi denilen gazetenin küçük çocuğa tacizle yargılanan yazarı Hüseyin üzmez’le beraber piknik yaparken kameralara yakalanmıştı.Malum aynı Müslüm Gündüz Fadime Şahin’le de yine Hüseyin Üzmez’in evinde basılmıştı.Eeee arkadaş arkadaşa o kadar da kıyak yapsın artık,evinin anahtarını verip gençlerin ağzıyla”al anahtarı kanka istediğin kızı eve at ” mı demiş acaba ?Bu dindar geçinenler neden sürekli belden aşağı düşünürler acaba?Fetullah Gülen de bir videosunda interneti kastederek fuhşiyat,çentleşme deyip duruyordu.o kadar sene Amerika’da olup hala çetleşme değil de çentleşme demesi de ayrı bir komik..
28 Kasım 2011 06:30
The last novel of Umberto Eco, “The Cemetery of Prague”, may help us on this topic. Simone Simonini, the main character of this novel, is an extremely gifted master forger in the employ of various secret services. Simonini is the evil genius creating the most famous forgery in the world: The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. As you know this is the famous fake document that “exposes” a Jewish plot to take over the world. Simonini character in this novel gives us also an opportunity to understand the personality and mind-set of a master political forger.
His main trait of character is very familiar: hate. The strongest motivation of AKP/Gulen crew and their “liberal” supporters (and some of the commentators of this blog) on these show trials.
Eco describes Simonini as ‘the most hateful man in the world’. His maxim is “I hate therefore I am”. He founds “forging a letter that looks genuine, crafting a compromising confession, creating a document that will lead someone to ruin” exhilarating. Again another character in the novel assures one of his friends by stating that “you don’t love someone your whole life,” “but you can hate someone your whole life. Hatred warms the heart”.
Eco also highlights a few very interesting points about political forgery in an interview that is even more enlightening for us regarding the “show trials” in Turkey. He says “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion is an absolutely contradictory text and no intelligent person could take it seriously”. “But many people did”, “Why believe it even more, when you know it’s false?” Eco asks rhetorically. “My opinion is that these pamphlets don’t create prejudice, they reinforce pre-existing prejudices”. “There was a British anti-Semite, Nesta Webster,” says Eco, “who wrote that even though the book may be false, it shows how Jews really think, and so it’s actually true”. (The Inquirer, “Umberto Eco takes on big lies and the human compulsion to hate November 10, 2011, by Tirdad Derakhshani).
Isn’t it so similar to the arguments and mind-set of our “liberal intellectuals”.
By the way… Simonini is not only a genius forger but also an epicure and exhibits a Parisian gastronome’s obsession with exquisite food. Maybe this is the critical difference between a competent forger and our “incompetent” forgers. Who knows, maybe our forgers’ gastronomic obsession is limited with “Maklube”… and maybe that is why their imagination capacity is also so limited.
I wonder if this is the answer to the question on the title of this entry: “Oh, where have all the competent forgers gone?”