News from the US: Kılıçdaroğlu on duty

When asked, he said he was against coups, repeatedly. And he did not stop at saying so; he flared up, and, to prove that he was the fastest anti-coup figure, he made the most striking challenge possible: If there is a coup, I will be the first to stand in front of the tank.

Whether he was supposed to stand in front of the tank or on top of it to be anti-coup, we have always seen that Kılıçdaroğlu rushed to support, taking both his party and the documents in his hands, whoever said "I have a coup against Erdoğan." He stood not on top of or in front of the tank but right at its muzzle.

We know how, on 15 July, he came to an understanding with those at the head of that tank and skillfully slipped away from there, and spent the night in a convenient and suitable place watching events with great care. Let there be no mistake: some CHP deputies, from the hour the event began that night, resisted the coup in the clearest manner and stood in complete solidarity with the nation under the roof of the Parliament. But Kılıçdaroğlu's attitude toward the coup was peculiar. That night he evidently was in no position to defend a coup that even his own deputies opposed. Later, with the politics he put forward in exactly the direction the coup plotters wanted, he showed that he was a part of the coup.

Until 17-25 December he was warning the government against the F-Type structure and making harsh criticisms. Ostensibly he knew very well what kind of thing the F-Type structure was. But he did not hesitate to be the strongest political leg and support of the coup attempt that structure launched on 17-25 December. In the frame-ups set up by FETÖ-affiliated prosecutors and police on 17-25 December, he played the role written for him with a magnificent performance. With the FETÖ structure that he himself had said until the day before was a malignant tumor lodged within the state, the moment everyone was truly convinced that they were so and began fighting them, he began to support their most open, most insidious move so far. From then on he stood beside all of FETÖ's moves in politics.

The night of 15 July in fact opened to Kılıçdaroğlu a door of enlightenment, of purification from this great sin, of repentance. Probably in the face of his own deputies' sincere stance that night and the nation's magnificent response, he was forced for a while to give a different appearance. But he soon returned to his factory settings. He went back to the setting of taking his party and running wherever someone says "I have a coup against Erdoğan."

This time the sounds of a coup are coming from the US. The reckoning that could not be seen on 17-25 December is being opened there to put Turkey on trial.

If Turkey's main opposition had the slightest trace of national character, what it should say is this: "The setting up of a court in the US for an incident that concerns only Turkey in every respect is first of all an insolent attack on Turkey's right of sovereignty and its national existence.

Damn everyone who gave rise to such an event, which in every respect would mean Turkey's being tried by the US, and who expects political benefit and help from the course and outcome of that case."

It falls upon all of Turkey's citizens, of course both government and opposition, to be of one piece and stand against such insolence. Is it not clear enough that this is a more despicable version of 17-25 December? Is it not clear enough that this is a continuation of the occupation attempt that could not be accomplished on 15 July?

To say that FETÖ is now behind this also means nothing. Do we not see that the forces behind FETÖ from the very beginning have taken off their masks and taken on the job themselves?

While the insolence of a US that presumes to put Turkey on trial through the Zarrab case has set a national feeling in motion in the whole Turkish people, Kılıçdaroğlu's getting up in those same days and waving about some papers put into his hand by the same centers as "documents" shows only that he aspires to be a "colonial governor."

Whoever put those documents, whose contents evidently even he himself does not know, into his hand, is commanding the same operation as the Zarrab case. Here neither Kılıçdaroğlu nor FETÖ counts for anything. The aim is to take Turkey into custody. And taking Turkey into custody passes through toppling Erdoğan.

Everyone now understands that a Turkey under Erdoğan's leadership disturbs the powers that are exploiting the world. But if they think they will remove this disturbance by this means, topple Erdoğan and thus take Turkey into custody, they are badly mistaken. Everyone knows the meaning and cause of this attack.

No one sees this as a legal case. Therefore everyone also sees that what Kılıçdaroğlu is doing is nothing but supporting, with this perception-gunmanship that has nothing to do with law.

A hand that reaches out toward Erdoğan in one way or another will not prosper. They should see what happened to FETÖ and its supposedly indestructible empire at the moment it tried to reach out its hand to him, and take warning.

Never mind what perception the launching of such a case against Erdoğan in the US will create in Turkey, the Middle East and the Islamic world; let the US think about that itself.

What, do they still see Erdoğan as someone who has come to power in Turkey by chance with a 50 + 2 percent vote margin?