Who but Erdoğan could have driven off the FETÖ scourge?

One year later, this nation proclaimed to the whole world the epic answer it gave on 15 July to the greatest act of treachery our country has faced in the history of the Republic of Turkey. The public's participation in the gatherings held all over Turkey, beginning with Ankara and Istanbul, shows that 15 July will have an important effect that also builds the future of this country.

Those who planned this evil event, whose outcome appears extremely auspicious, of course were not planning such an outcome. In any case, no criminal who ends up being punished sets out aiming for the outcome in which he will meet his doom. All criminals commit their crimes hoping to gain a great deal. But when they are caught in the act, in addition to everything they hoped to gain, they meet their doom by losing everything they possess.

All the murderers who built all their calculations on committing a perfect crime face this reality, which is bitter for themselves but of course good in terms of justice.

For FETÖ, 15 July was a plan for a perfect crime. As a result, they would both have gotten rid of their enemy Recep Tayip Erdoğan and, by seizing all of Turkey's assets and handing them over to the occupiers as a gift, they would have made a great profit. They were after a perfect crime plan, and this was the greatest flaw of the crime plan. Because those who would commit the crime were, after all, human beings, the victims were human beings, and those who might witness and prevent the event were human beings. And there is no sociology that can foresee all the behaviors of human beings in advance and insure accordingly against the usual surprises in these behaviors.

15 July cast the light of the sun upon all the components of the coup, the treason, the crime and the perfidy. Everything came out in broad daylight. Therefore all the people of the country who carry a heart were illuminated by the light of this sun and took their side. In this side the unity, livelihood and togetherness of a nation emerged. A spirit was, as it were, breathed into the feeble body called society, and that body became a nation. That spirit invited all the people of Turkey to join a truth. From now on, the price of not joining this invitation, of opposing this spirit, is nothing other than plunging into darkness again.

On the first anniversary, millions joined this truth to which 15 July invited, by reading the epic of a heroic nation.

Kılıçdaroğlu, however, tried from outside to recite the ghazal of the "controlled coup" in this square. However much he says he is against coups, however much he says he joined the anti-coup consensus on the night of 15 July, there is no one who does not know that the lyrics of the ghazal he recites belong to FETÖ. As a propaganda babble that, like a heavy metal composition without any harmony, derives all its effectiveness from repeating itself with noise, it is very clear that the "controlled coup" rote formula aims to get a voice across to the outside rather than at its effect inside Turkey. Otherwise, we all lived 15 July together. Which unscrupulous person can claim that what happened that night was planned by someone outside those who carried out the coup in a controlled way?

The "controlled coup" babble of Kılıçdaroğlu and others is an absurd babble to which FETÖ members, caught red-handed during the coup action, cling in order to defend themselves in every eventuality. So what is happening to Kılıçdaroğlu? Documents about the roads he walked together with the coup plotters will sooner or later come out; is he making this absurd defense already now?

Even at this stage they do not refrain from accusing the AK Parti and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of having cooperated with the Gülenists in the past. They even accuse the AK Parti and Erdoğan of not implementing, indeed of opposing, the decision taken in the MGK in 2004 to take measures against the Fethullahists. As if a revelation had been sent down to them from time immemorial about FETÖ, the most insidious and most hypocritical organization in the history of the world, and they, bound to that revelation with unshakable faith, had never established any relation with them.

Let us recall that 17-25 December was an event in which FETÖ came onto the stage openly for the first time with all its intentions and culpable actions, yet Kılıçdaroğlu and the deputies, in the aftermath of this event, rushed to the Zaman Newspaper and declared that they were with them in a war against Erdoğan.

Moreover, when in 2004 the MGK declared the Fethullahists a "reactionary" structure that had to be fought, it was putting in its sights not only the Fethullahists but, under the obsession of the concept of "reactionism," all religious people.

In a war targeting all religious people, FETÖ would only have been enlarged. It would have turned that too into an opportunity, and it did. That is why that could not be called a struggle. Meanwhile, Kılıçdaroğlu cannot make anyone forget with this brazenness the role the CHP played in those days in the othering of all religious people.

We would also like to remind once more. From the mid-sixties, when it started its activities, FETÖ knew how to influence all governments and use them. No government dared to struggle against them effectively.

Frankly, because of their cunning that leaves no side unguarded, even when they were the steerers of 28 February, they managed to garner for themselves a rent among the religious public from the real grievances that emerged in that period, though they were not affected by them at all.

Thanks to their tremendous skills in conspiracy and frame-ups, they infiltrated all political parties and tried to run them. They even managed to recruit the CHP, the political party that appeared the most opposed to them, to carry out their own plans. Because every time they had an offer that no one could refuse.

In this state of affairs, when there was no one who could dare to fight them, when all the shipyards, all the institutions of the country, the government and the opposition were under the occupation of these traitors, only one person could muster the courage to stand against them, and that was Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

Truly, no one other than him could have waged this struggle either. Had it been left to the CHP, just as on 17-25 December, it would have kept enlarging this structure by allying with it against its rivals (the AK Parti).

Erdoğan has a great claim of right over everyone in this country who says "I am somebody," precisely because of this. When there is acknowledging this right and thanking him in the name of this country's future, repeating babble like "controlled coup" and "you walked together" is nothing other than becoming a partner of this network of treason.