The greatest punishment for dissimulation: being cut off from the world of facts

All dimensions of the July 15 coup attempt are coming to light, in all their details, with each passing day and hour. Nothing remains hidden. For every event that took place, a camera recording emerges from an angle no one had taken into account at that moment, and the events are laid out before everyone's eyes in all their clarity. All of this is possible thanks to the freedom of communication, media and press that is still in force.

Yet, God forbid, had the coup succeeded even to a small degree, the first act and first target of the coup would have been to put an end to this media freedom.

After the coup declaration read out on TRT, the actual attacks on TÜRKSAT and TELEKOM, and then the raid on CNN Türk, which gained symbolic meaning because it broadcast by telephone connection that night's counter-declaration, that is, President Erdoğan's counter-declaration that instantly put a full stop to the coup and ended it, sufficiently explained what kind of media environment the coup had designed.

Today what FETO, which unfortunately gains credit with its organizations of strife and mischief spread around the world, its lobbying and PR activities, and its black propaganda about pressure on press freedom in Turkey, is most skilled at is distorting the facts. The perception in the world today that Turkey is almost the country with the most pressure on journalists is this organization's doing. To be able to put Turkey almost even behind Egypt in this regard is a completely separate specialty of covering up facts.

Creating, in the middle of the world of facts, an island of an utterly fabricated, entirely different reality is the organization's basic characteristic.

Although this side of this organizational structure, whose creed and temperament are taqiyya, has now become obvious to everyone in Turkey, unfortunately with this charlatan skill it can still find masses in the world whose eyes it can dazzle and deceive.

Perhaps a significant part of these masses it finds are already prepared to buy these fabricated or distorted fairy tales of reality because of their similar hostile attitudes toward Turkey. In the end the scene we face consists of a simple solidarity of Turkey's enemies. The instructive cooperation that this solidarity has produced is of course also being noted.

As the details come out, what is understood is that every step of those who carried out the July 15 coup is built on lies and trickery.

They began the declaration by announcing that they were acting on behalf of the entire TSK, within the chain of command, but because they had to say first what they would say afterwards, all the lies came out right away. Even many elements within the TSK to whom they had assigned the most fundamental role in this coup had no idea of their job descriptions. Many soldiers were taken out of the barracks having been told they were going to an exercise, many were sent into the field having been told they were going to an operation against terror, and many to another kind of operation.

The declaration read out on TRT, which treated the people of Turkey as fools while explaining the necessity of taking over the administration, was found even "sympathetic" by their wise guys, in any case. They did not hesitate to express this shamelessly, at the very start of the hour the declaration was read, on their own channels to which they were connected

(see Kerim Balcı).

Erdoğan's call at that hour to the people to resist the coup plotters is evidently something they did not take into account at all.

To see, in that video, that they were quite serious in shamelessly advising Erdoğan that what he should do at that moment was not to make an "irresponsible call to the people to resist" but to "sit down and bargain with the soldiers" is in fact a whole other kind of freakish event. Its analysis is not something that can simply be dismissed by being thrown into the comedy segments.

The essence of the matter is that, in the face of the excessive performance displayed in distorting reality, the greatest punishment received is to be cut off from the facts.

That is, coming to the point of believing one's own lie is the greatest punishment that liars meet by divine justice.

Those who have drowned in so many lies and tricks no longer have the right to see and appreciate the real face of Tayyip Erdoğan

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Those who have slaughtered the facts so much are also left with no right to see the facts.

The punishment of being cut off from the facts, of being unable to see the facts, is not given to them by someone through a court decision. The evil of the slanders they cast with their own malignant hearts returns to them as punishment. This is how God seals their insight, their discernment, their eyes and their ears.

By putting them in such a tragicomic position, He makes them say, as the heaviest punishment, the delusion that Erdoğan could sit down and bargain with the soldiers.

Indeed, a significant part of the soldiers who got into the coup business understood in the square, in the face of the protests they met from the people, what kind of affair they had been involved in.

That is, those who carried out the coup hid from even the people they would carry out the coup with what the hell they were doing. They could not sell the reality they had distorted, in that state, even to their own soldiers; they could not trust that they could sell it.

In contrast, one may wonder what and how they were going to explain to this people through the coup they would carry out, how they could convince this people to accept the takeover of the administration of such a people in this way. What a government needs most is legitimacy or rightfulness. What kind of vision for governing the country would a junta have had, which took over the administration by hiding everything from the soldiers under its command and using even them?

Frankly, the only answer to this is that the higher mind that opened the way for this coup had no goal such as the administration of the country.

What was targeted was for Turkey to be dragged, just like Syria, into a chaos that would continue until it was thoroughly weakened. In the meantime the role assigned to FÖTO was to wreck this country by using the power it had accumulated for fifty years in the army and other institutions. It was not to govern or to rebuild.

FETÖ has neither a vision nor a social response with which it could rebuild anyway. Those who used it and drove it to this work have neither such an intention nor such a goal.

The matter that has gained urgent priority for them is to stop an increasingly strong, rising Turkey, to put an end to its existence that upsets the calculations of the world order and disturbs the unjust world order.

In essence, FETÖ's present position, the tolerance it receives from the world order, the media support given to it, and the overall picture of the international movements against Turkey and Erdoğan that appear independent of this, sufficiently explain where this coup came from and why.