Theatre and backstage

Almost every detail of the assassination of Russian Ambassador Andrey Karlov was first published on social media second by second and then presented to everyone's view. There is no doubt that this presentation is closely related to the communication and media conditions of the world we live in. But what is even more certain is that whoever planned and carried out the assassination designed and implemented, as part of the assassination package, their own plan for how the assassination should be reflected.

All the details of the assassination really did unfold before everyone's eyes, but meanwhile the backstage of the play staged during the assassination, together with its intention and purpose, was also seen in all its nakedness.

The event of course did not consist merely of an assassination.

Beyond being an act that targeted the person of the Russian ambassador and aimed to kill him, there was a spectacle that calculated the meaning and effects of this act and tried to add other things to it in order to obtain these effects.

This spectacle, which of course tried to deceive the spectators but could not hide the truth it was trying to deceive them about,

deserves to be evaluated not only as a performing-arts performance.

This assassination also constituted an important example for seeing that today's world is far riskier than before for spectacles of this kind that pursue political goals. Because this action, which put the spectacle ahead of the event, clearly gave away the intention, the target and the perpetrator of the action.

Because it gave them away, the spectacle turned into a complete fiasco for its perpetrators. Indeed, beyond a fiasco, it caused the opposite of whatever was aimed at with this spectacle to come about.

What was wanted was the deterioration of Turkey's relations with Russia,

but from the very first minute Russia showed that it had seen the purpose and intention of this action very well. We witnessed developments and statements to the effect that Turkish-Russian relations would not be affected by this incident, or indeed that if they were to be affected at all they would be affected positively.

Indeed, the meeting among Turkey, Russia and Iran on developments regarding Syria, expected to be held the next day, was not cancelled, contrary to what was aimed at, but produced an optimistic outcome toward a solution beyond expectations.

After that meeting we can say that today we are at a much more positive point toward a solution in Syria,

because, in principle, it is right for Syria's neighbors, who are directly affected by Syria, to be involved in Syria's future instead of countless extra-regional actors.

In fact, what is more correct is for only the Syrian people to decide the future of the Syrian people.

It is of course desirable that no other country, Turkey included, be in a position to decide Syria's future. Although Turkey has insisted on this from the beginning, unfortunately it has not been possible to save Syria from these external interventions.

At the point we have reached today, at a level where international politics is beginning to make mistrust prevail, reducing the actors and keeping them limited to the actors of the region is still a great step that brings us closer to a solution. One must not see as entirely unrelated the fact that Turkey or Russia were subjected together to such an attack precisely in this process.

There is one scene of this spectacle, every second of which took place before all kinds of media, that in my opinion sheds light on today's international politics.

The scene just before the assassination, in which the victim appears in front and the killer behind... In this scene there is the trust felt by the one standing in front toward someone behind him who has managed to give the impression of being his bodyguard. But that trust rests on a mask, assumed because of the role, so false that it would cost him his life seconds later.

The killer's attempt, immediately after pulling the trigger, to perform the requirements of a radical Islamist role, again showing off to the cameras, is a simple performance of deception.

Thankfully what the actor was trying to do was understood within a short time. But today in Syria, in Iraq and in many parts of the world, we have not experienced a process that could reveal with such clarity whose script is being played by terrorist organizations such as DEAŞ or al-Qaeda, which have managed, by playing a radical Islamist role, to draw all of the world's hatred and hostility onto Muslims.

That they represent not Muslims but only the enemies of Muslims, that they act on their behalf, is known only by their innocent victims, 99 percent of whom are Muslims.

Today the victims of DEAŞ or al-Qaeda terror are never the US or Western countries, only Muslims.

These organizations open the way for Western countries to occupy the Islamic world. As a result of these occupations they open the way to completely burning down and destroying the modest world that the post-colonial Islamic world had more or less put back together. They kill only Muslims, and by the pretext they provide for fighting them they enable Westerners to come and kill even more Muslims en masse.

Today's international relations are a complete theater, like the assassination of Andrey Karlov.

Nothing is as it seems and everything takes place in the atmosphere of a show. What is done is one thing, and the impression we are being made to accept about what is done is quite another.

The US, Turkey's ally in NATO, came to topple Assad in Syria, but on the way began to wrestle with another enemy it found, one Assad had thrown in its path, then could not cope with it, and called to its aid on Syrian soil the PKK, the terrorist organization that is the enemy of its own ally Turkey. Oh, it knows the PKK too as a terrorist organization, so it has baptized it by dressing it in the garb of "JPG".

Meanwhile, of course, not everything is going as they wish.

Events do not always take place within the limits of a stage, as in a theater, where everything can be foreseen and controlled.

There is a horizon, a power, a calculation that exceeds their horizons, their power and their calculations, and an absolute owner of that power and that calculation.