One of the days of God, 28 February

Today is February 28, 2015. The intervention in politics, and from there in every area of life, carried out at the National Security Council meeting held 18 years ago, in 1997, added this day to the unforgettable special days. What was experienced on that day and in the days and years after it, the order of tutelage established over society, or already established and then greatly intensified, undoubtedly also put Turkey into a very different channel of development. Looking at the 18 years that have passed since going through some point of this channel, it must be said that sitting down every year to curse "February 28," an almost personified being, takes us further and further from understanding the nature of this event.

Undoubtedly, the chain of events experienced together with February 28 was far from being events that happened once and were done in history. Today, as we move historically further from February 28, we can mention it in passing as a "pitch-black past." As we picture that past, we wish it never to be lived again. We can think that Turkey has moved quite far from those days and those conditions and that Turkey can never again suffer such a madness. After all, when someone's appetite for a coup is mentioned, a voice immediately bristles and can say that this concern is an empty and instrumentalized concern. There are even those who approach this by invoking that the course of the world can never again allow coups. Yet even if coups have something to do with the course of the world, the greedy and ambitious lust for power neither listens to the course of the world nor rests on such grand and subtle analyses. Indeed, there are leagues of distance between the coup carried out in Egypt and the reason attributed to today's world through such analyses. But either the reason, rationality, humanism and sensitivity to democratic values that we attribute to this world are an empty attribution, or these putschists must have gone mad. In any case, coups are not things that are profitable for reason. But their being not profitable for reason does not mean they are out of the question. Therefore one must take firm precautions. One must always bear in mind that those who have appetites for coups have no loyalty to any human value.

February 28 is an ordinary manifestation of the human lust for power corrupting all moral values. And this is something that can happen at any time. As long as human greed exists, it can happen again. But undoubtedly, in addition to all its ordinary human characteristics, the February 28 process also carries some special, distinctive aspects. Within this manifestation are all the examples that the human species can display under intense probability. Therefore in this process there are both sacrifices and betrayals. There are also perfect examples of the fact that a human being can be exalted only by servitude to Allah, and there are also those who, wretched before the self-sufficient tyranny of power, surrendered at once and sold their own brothers and friends.

Take a look at where each person stood in February 28 and how; you can find typical examples of all the dramatic dimensions of life in living examples.

The February 28 process as a whole also offers the finest example of how Allah's days are made to rotate as He promised. This date is an important stage that gives meaning and substance to many of today's events. The AK Parti's success story, together with February 28, inevitably carries us to the spiritual dimension that we can know about Allah's days. With those events, it became inevitable that the AK Parti would turn, beyond being simply a coalition of interests and a center-right party, into an actor that carries, knowingly or unknowingly, the mission of that divine rotation. Allah's verses are written most clearly not only in His Book but also in all His creations displayed in the world, and in His circulating the days among people.

The AK Parti government has repaired to a significant extent the deep fractures that the February 28 process created in social memory and in personality, but this sickly mentality, by the year 2015, does not seem to have drawn any lesson from this perfect manifestation of that rotation..

We have been seeing, especially recently and often, that the dark gang that managed this process, which produced many injustices and acts of oppression, has come together again at different times and on different grounds. The Gezi Events and then the December 17-25 coup processes showed how eager certain segments still are for new February 28 processes. Perhaps today this seduction is meeting its new sinners, that is all. There is a complete continuity and consistency between where Pennsylvania stood on February 28 and where it stands today. Perhaps what is sometimes surprising is that this mentality has today recruited different actors. The psychology of this recruitment is of course worth studying separately.

The distance between where Interesting Murat Belge, Cengiz Çandar, Nazlı Ilıcak and the like, who drew attention in the February 28 of the nineties with their anti-Kemalist stance, stand these days, inevitably forces one to dwell on the metaphysical dimensions of the event. Belge is now openly inviting the army to a coup. Although he tried to save the situation after Engin Ardıç's criticisms, it cannot be said that he was fully successful in this.

February 28 is an ordeal that a human being can always encounter. It must be understood that those who displayed a positive attitude in one period cannot, with this positive attitude, earn a title of "goodness" until the end of their lives. Evil appears before us in other guises, in very simple disguises.