Whose human rights, and who cares?

Everyone surely asks this question and finds in their mind an answer that leaves no room for hesitation: if the coup that was attempted on July 15 had, God forbid, succeeded, what state would the country be in today?

For example, how many journalists would have been arrested and now be in dungeons with unknown fate?

How many newspapers and television stations would have been shut down?

Whom would the swords of freedom of expression that have recently been dangled over Turkey, such as Twitter, Facebook and whastsupp, have cut today?

After how long would internet access have returned to this country?

How many stadiums would have turned into concentration camps in place of the prisons whose occupancy rates have reached the extreme?

How many of our citizens would have gone to "who shot them" on the night of the coup, that is, vanished as victims of unsolved killings?

After how long could we have hoped to get news of the fate of whoever remained of the murdered politicians?

How many of our citizens would have died, how many been wounded, and how many been left to live under heavy torture in prisons with no end in sight, without even being brought before a court, and how many people would have gradually lost their lives in dungeons in the meantime?

Meanwhile, we do not even come to questions like, if the coup had succeeded, would there be anything left called Turkey's economy? Would its unity and integrity remain? We should think about this too within a more complete line of reasoning of

"God forbid, if it had succeeded..."

but my word for now is from the side of human rights.

Without doubt, from the very moment it is made, a coup attempt in itself represents the greatest attack on a country's human rights. It carries out the gravest massacre against everything there is in the name of democratic values. What it could have done, had the coup succeeded, God forbid, is actually not hard to guess by looking at what happened after the September 12, 1980 coup in Turkey and the coup in Egypt in July 2013.

By God, against the September 12 military coup, as far as we can remember, there was a not bad solidarity among the Europeans in their human rights discourses directed at Turkey. But after the years that have passed, in the face of the mass massacres and grave human rights violations that took place after the coup in Egypt, we have so far been unable to hear a sufficient voice from Europe, from America, or from the human rights organizations tied to them.

Apart from the feeble reports published now and then, of the kind "let friends see it in the defense of human rights," it is not possible to say that the cruelties that happen every day and whose cries have reached the skies shake the democratic and civilized world much.

In fact,

to foresee what could have happened in Turkey "if the coup had succeeded, God forbid," one would not even have needed to look at Egypt or September 12.

Even just looking at what the murderous coup plotters did on the night of July 15 and what they dared to do, we can see that what could have happened would have been far more dreadful than both Egypt and September 12, 1980. No one could even have imagined what coup plotters who could dare to bomb parliament along with the deputies inside it, to drive tanks over civilian crowds, to open volley fire with anti-aircraft rounds and to bomb with planes could have done.

The people of Turkey, who stood up to these killers and protected their lives, their future, their democracy and all their rights, did not have in their hands at that time a single pistol, not even a single pocketknife. Their only possession was their bare bodies, at most they had slaps and fists. The people, marching in this state on armed men, won an epic and instructive victory, and in the course of a scuffle took their weapons from the hands of the armed terrorists who had just killed those of their own and wounded many.

As a result of this scuffle, 240 people from the people died and over 2000 were wounded, but, in return, of the terrorists whom they stopped by seizing their weapons and whom they roughed up in the melee that broke out, no notable number died. Only, during this melee, these terrorists were roughed up a bit. Now Europe's human rights organizations, Amnesty International, citing images of the roughing-up during this event, bring torture and human rights violations in Turkey onto the agenda and try to push Turkey into defending itself against human rights.

Sorry, Amnesty.

Be a little consistent, be honest.

If you were a little honest about human rights, you would first think of offering congratulations for the heroic resistance the people of Turkey showed on July 15 against the massacrers of human rights. The people of Turkey that day did not merely protect themselves; if you had a little respect for your values, which you never let drop from your tongue as long as a baker's peel under the name of European values, you would see that the people of Turkey first of all protected those values, and you would take your hats off.

The people of Turkey as a whole, by taking from the hands of those criminal coup plotters their weapons and their right to coup, prevented the gravest violation and trampling of the rights of 79 million people.

Paying for its own democracy in the heaviest way with its blood, it raised the flag of democracy. By repelling this coup, it prevented the violation of freedom of expression in Turkey to the very end. By keeping open parliament, democracy's most symbolic institution, and putting up a resistance there, it showed that democracy is not a simple value.

If the coup had succeeded, what would have been slaughtered in Turkey, at the very least, would have been those European values,

but if Europe's human rights organizations still care more about the killers of those values, what do they expect us to think, I wonder, and what to say to them?

Are European values your idols made of halva that you eat when you are hungry? Or are only you Europeans worthy of those values? Are others not worthy of those values?

That you take more interest in the rights of coup plotters and criminals than in those of the people those coup-plotting criminals victimized and oppressed, when it comes to Turkey, Egypt, Syria and the Islamic world in general, may stem from your still not having advanced a barley-grain's length from the racist and classist democracy of ancient Athenian democracy.

This is exactly it, and that is why no good will come to this world from those values of yours.