Is there a parallel state inside the US?

Turkey is identifying and putting on trial all the culprits of the treacherous coup attempt of 15 July 2016, which targeted its democracy and freedoms and caused the deaths of 249 people and the injury of 2,193.

At first glance, everyone should accept and respect that it has an entirely natural right to do so. Friends should help the Turkish judiciary in this process, stand by it and support it.

Even if they are not friends of Turkey, those who say they are on the side of democracy, if they are at all honest, should at least help Turkey's decision and its fight against the putschists and terrorists that it is conducting.

Unfortunately, we have seen that many of the countries that pass themselves off as champions of democracy, and even appear to be friends of Turkey, were in a completely different world during this process. We put the stance of some countries that could not take a clear position against the coup during the coup down at first to a pragmatic "wait-and-see" policy.

Even that much was very shameful and wrong and was enough to show the hypocrisy of those countries, but what we encountered during the coup was not merely hesitation; it apparently came from a much further sense of ownership toward the putschists who were fighting on their behalf in the field. It seems that the places in Germany or the US for those who fled Turkey because they could not carry out the coup were already prepared as part of a Plan B.

Turkey has been demanding the ringleader of the coup from the US since before this coup, in fact since the 17 December coup attempt through the judiciary. On its involvement in 17 December, let us say, we could not present enough evidence to satisfy an objective US judiciary. But since 15 July FETÖ's involvement in the coup attempt, carried out as a bloody terrorist organization, is plain for all to see. Those who ask for evidence to be satisfied on this are either truly devoid of reason or are mocking our intelligence.

On 11 September the US hastily ruled that al-Qaeda was behind it and that Afghanistan and Iraq were behind al-Qaeda, and declared that everyone must either believe this or be counted as part of the attack. Bush declared his historic phrase with the call for global polarization he launched right after this event: "either you are with us or with them."

One wonders on what evidence the US, which did not grant anyone even the right to be neutral or to hesitate or to ask whether the evidence was convincing, relied. On this occasion, as a result of the occupation of Iraq under the pretext that it possessed weapons of mass destruction and, of course, with the promise of bringing democracy there, one and a half million people died, millions were wounded and left homeless, and the country was subjected to an instability that cannot easily be remedied.

The US, which relied on no evidence when taking this step that carried the world to catastrophe, now argues that the evidence is insufficient to hand over the ringleader of a coup as clear as day.

We know very well what this "insufficient evidence" statement means, but I think the reaction of the US embassy to the arrest of the Istanbul consulate employee Metin Topuz has made the situation completely clear: What evidence could convince of his guilt the person whom he himself incited to the crime, the coup?

Whether you submitted the 85 folders full of evidence and documents presented to the US to the judicial authorities or to Gülen himself...

When it is plain and obvious that 17-25 December was also a FETÖ coup, the oddity of the US judiciary's adoption of the indictments prepared by these putschists, which were thrown in their faces in Turkey, now disappears.

Indeed, what business did the US judiciary have in a case that is Turkey's own internal affair? Reza Zarrab took part in a money-gold traffic between Iran and Turkey. Even in the embargo the US imposed on Iran, when Turkey had said in advance that it did not recognize this embargo, what kind of law is it that gives the US the right to try a Turkish citizen?

Let us pass over that. The US judiciary considers itself entitled to put into process, in its own country, the invalid indictments prepared by the FETÖ members who have been revealed to be putschists and corrupt, and on that basis to arrest and try Turkish citizens. But it regards as a cause for crisis the arrest and trial of consulate employees who are Turkish citizens and against whom there is strong evidence of involvement in crimes of coup and massacre committed in Turkey itself.

Even so, the reaction displayed by the US Ambassador to the arrest of the consulate employee Metin Topuz is a situation that really needs to be interpreted well. These contradictions we have tried to show above should not, in spite of everything, be seen as a consequence of the fundamental, unchanging position of the US as a whole.

As President Erdoğan also asked, we have to consider that the US too has been subjected to a parallel-structure infiltration. Because this inconsistent policy above all makes the US lose. The inconsistent policy displayed in Syria, of cooperating with terror against terror, and of virtually stabbing in the back its biggest ally in NATO, Turkey, must also be the result of such an infiltration.

For this policy too wins the US enemies, not friends.

This policy, which is gradually driving the US into a loneliness in which it will have no friend or confidant left in the world, can only be explained by the mind of a parallel occupation inside the US.

While our official alliance with the US still continues, let us not neglect to give this warning.

If there is still a "patriotic" will in the US that will save the country, let it move to clean this parallel structure within itself while the road is still near; otherwise the end of the road for the US is in sight.