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The scenario

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With every passing hour we understand better what a calamity this country would have faced, God forbid, had the coup attempt that was repelled and defeated on July 15 by the total resistance of the people of Turkey succeeded even partially.

The savagery and brutality displayed during the coup already show sufficiently how this coup attempt, had it succeeded, would have proceeded and what kind of merciless order it could have established in Turkey. The people who were brutally slaughtered by fire opened on crowds with anti-aircraft rounds, bombed by warplanes and crushed by tanks were the members of the society that the coup plotters intended to govern after the coup.

So they had no claim, it turns out, of rescuing these people from some existing oppressive or mistaken government. The only thing in mind was to take a people captive by force of arms, to establish tyrannical dominion over a people. The fact that even the Grand National Assembly was bombed repeatedly, with a savagery and recklessness without parallel in the history of coups in the world, shows that the coup plotters did not seek any possibility of legal legitimacy, and that they had calculated that the only legitimacy they would need would come from their weapons and their tyranny.

And then there is this too. This structure, which since the Gezi events has worked like an extraordinary propaganda machine to engrave the perception of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's authoritarianism on public opinion in Turkey and the world, tried to obtain its own legitimacy from this lie that it told the world.

That today these lies find buyers so easily in world public opinion is of course, on the one hand, the shame of world public opinion. In an age when democracy is the prevailing value, the fact that such propaganda finds buyers so easily against Erdoğan, who has enormous popular support behind him, reveals the face-reddening state of the democratic world. That world, evidently, can prefer this unprincipled, this arbitrary, this terrorist coup against a leader who came to power with the votes of the great majority of the people.

If what makes them make this choice is, in essence, the Islamist perception about Erdoğan that the same propaganda machine insistently emphasizes, then nothing remains in that world but hatred of Islam, hostility and racism. From now on Turkey has nothing to explain to this Western world; on the contrary, they will have much to explain to the Muslim world.

The FETÖ-affiliated propaganda machine, when the coup attempts, which had been extremely well prepared, planned and put into effect, failed, went into action immediately without feeling any shame, without their faces reddening in any way.

Of course they say a great many things. I am not in a position to count the new propaganda tales they have put into play, but there is one that reveals their state of mind and the instructive condition they have fallen into in a different way.

Aren't they saying that everything that happened was a scenario, a theater? Believe me, it is God who makes them say that too.

It is true, very true, that when the scenario they wrote and tried to put into practice collapsed, another scenario came into play. They wanted to do something. With their bird brains they planned everything, thought of every detail, and even calculated how the soldiers who would be caught red-handed in the event of a coup would give their statements. Granted, it is quite clear that they had given relatively less probability to not succeeding. Even so, they did not neglect even that detail. The operation against the President was calculated down to every detail. Its effect on social psychology after the coup, how they would seize the administration, whom they would intern and how, who would be removed from which post, who would be put in their place, in short, everything was thought out. Only one thing was neglected: that above all scenarios there exists another scenario.

The great scenario that brought their scenario down and immediately stepped onto the stage in its place is God's scenario, and of course His scenario is above all scenarios. From the moment that scenario came into play, we as a nation experienced that great pleasure, happiness and exhilaration that could not be felt in any other film.

First of all, we are faced with a seditious scenario-writing that for 50 years has had the sole business of writing scenarios and has achieved an incredibly satanic success with these scenarios in making the good look bad and the bad look good. Today we see much more clearly that in the scenarios FETÖ has written in recent times it has become expert in discrediting people by writing for whomever it wanted whatever role it wanted. The frame-ups and conspiracies they set up with trials like Balyoz and Ergenekon were in fact scenarios, and with these scenarios they showed how notorious they are in evil. Every plot and every scheme of theirs that came to light laid bare their evil, the evil inherent in their satanic intelligence and skill at writing scenarios.

February 7

, with the scenarios they wrote on December 17-25, they had written a role for everyone in their own way. Unlike the earlier ones, all those scenarios met with a series of mishaps and got tangled around their feet. All these mishaps began to repeat frequently, because each mishap was forming the scenes of a greater scenario. For these scenarios written with a small mind were, without knowing, of course without being able to know, serving the greater scenario.

Indeed, on July 15, this magnificent scenario, in which a role had been written for nearly every segment and every individual of this nation, worked so flawlessly, so beautifully, that everyone played their role perfectly. Moreover, there was a role written even for those who attempted the coup in this scenario. They played the evil written for them in its most repulsive, most vile form. As they played their evil, this people showed its goodness. As they displayed their treacherous and murderous side, this people displayed its noble and heroic side. As a result, a perfect unity of scenario and performance emerged, with its flawless beauty and aesthetics.

But of course this scenario was not a scenario that a human being could write and carry out; it cannot be. We have watched, in all its originality, a magnificent, miraculous repetition of the answers God has given throughout history to those who see themselves as so arrogant and self-sufficient as to compete with Nimrod in writing scenarios for people.

Those coup-plotting oppressors saw and understood by what kind of blow they were eventually overthrown, but they still do not understand from whom this blow came to them. They will understand that too.