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A column can be evidence too, even a "hair"

It seems the parallel structure's feats cannot be finished by counting. Lies, slander, intrigue, coup-plotting, exploitation of religion, abuse of authority and office, cadre-building, betrayal of trust, abuse of confidence, and so on.
They display all these traits openly, and brazenly.
But a more evident trait we see these days is the superior performance and brazenness they show in looking strong while playing the barker, though guilty. Since they were able to learn of the operation days in advance through their moles inside the police, there is in fact no need for any other evidence against them.
That there are still personnel inside the police who work not for the state or the hierarchical order in the police organization but for them became certain with this very event. There is no need for them to put on Kılıçdaroğlu-style antics, saying "Where, where is the parallel? Show us and let us go and join as members too." Seeing this state of affairs, there is no longer a situation in which anyone can play dumb by saying "so that is the parallel," or treat others as fools.
Before anyone had the faintest idea, they shared on social media information they had learned through their personnel inside the police and even organized an uprising. That is not all: within a short time they mobilized all their men in the influential circles of the media, to which they have so far fed himmet money around the world, and before the operation against them had even been carried out, they portrayed it as "silencing the free press, suppressing the opposition" and made them swallow it like carp.
Thanks to this, we see a tremendous campaign of reaction from the foreign press and political circles, from which we have heard no reaction regarding Egypt, where 50 thousand people, hundreds of journalists among them, are currently held under completely arbitrary and torture conditions and dozens of people lose their lives every day in civilian demonstrations, over operations that have not yet happened and whose content is unknown. A tear-jerking sensitivity, a truly hopeful sight in the name of the "free press."
In fact, on this occasion this structure has shown that it is not at all short of skill in psychological warfare techniques either. They leave no need for any other evidence or information about the ways beneath the straw by which they have quietly run all sorts of affairs until now. We understand better today that they picked up this skill all the way back in the sixties, in the Struggle Against Communism years, through counter-guerrilla exercises.
The operation launched on 14 December is, if you look at it, an operation launched on the complaint of the victims of an incident that most clearly gives away the organization's way of committing crimes. It is a perfect example of how the life of anyone targeted can be blackened in a short time through cooperation among police, judiciary and media. This example is not only for the group whose name the parallel structure itself put as "Tahşiye." This is the way this structure treats every person or group that enters any of its fields of activity.
In this respect what they do is no different from what mafia organizations do. With one difference: until now there has been no mafia organization in Turkey able to use religious and national motifs so effectively and widely and organized so widely in all units of the state, the judiciary and police above all.
When someone entering the field of private tutoring centers (dershane) and competing with the structure in this area is seen, a fabricated tip-off letter about that person is immediately sent to a prosecutor connected to the parallel structure, the prosecutor immediately issues a decision to tap all means of communication, his telephone, and within a short time that person is swooped upon.
They are not seeking a clean society against corruption. What they wanted was that no minister, no prime minister should remain who did not pay them tribute, who did not see them. 17 December was nothing other than this "swooping" operation, which they had been trying everywhere for years, being carried out against the government.
After being released, he has brazenly got up and says "the press cannot be silenced." As if anyone wanted to silence the press. He says "the evidence is all in all two columns and one news item." He says, is this what you are charging us with? Treating the nation as fools.
Dear "journalist." Nobody is being taken in for two columns, you know this too in fact, but let us say it again anyway. There are people who have been victimized, whose lives have been blackened, through those columns and news items. There are people who, though they had committed no crime, had bombs planted in their homes by police affiliated with the organization and who were slandered as a "terrorist organization" because of those bombs. Those "two columns" may very well be evidence of those crimes. Sometimes even a "hair" can be evidence at a crime scene for clarifying the incident.
Otherwise, who wants to silence the press? If the press had been silenced, could your press have given live on television the ridiculous heroics you staged in front of the courthouse square? For whoever understands, that image itself is an answer slapped in your face. They do not fear God, nor are they ashamed before His servants. Against the people whose lives you blackened, whose property, estates and freedoms you swooped upon like the mafia, you used religion, service and democracy as a shield. Will you not use journalism and the discourse of the free press?
Make as much of a barker's din as you like to cover up your cornered coup-plotting and thefts; everything you do sinks you further. You have lost your legitimacy, your credibility, your trustworthiness before the people.
The reputation you have lost before the innocent Turkish people whose himmet you exploited for years is enough as a stamp for you.