The place where law has been put on sale is called the US

The case in the US that began as the Rıza Zarrab case and after a while turned into the Hakan Atilla case concluded last week with the verdict of the court jury. The jury found Atilla, the former deputy general manager of Halkbank, guilty on 5 of the six charges attributed to him by the prosecution, and not guilty on only one, namely the money-laundering charge.

Of course, in a case it has taken on in a matter that is none of its business from start to finish, there is no point in blaming the jury instead of the court itself. The jury evaluated the content of the case that had somehow come before it. Even a small examination of how juries work in America is enough to show how problematic the justice system actually is.

This system deserves a serious study, especially from the standpoint of the sociology of law. The available data on the selection of the jury and on what kinds of sociological, psychological and ideological influences they work under in court proceedings show how the jury system has turned in America into a weak link for the distortion of justice through every kind of manipulation. But that is not our subject for now. Of course, the fact that the judge who presided over the verdict had been hosted with great hospitality by FETÖ members in Istanbul as early as May 2014, and that the content of the case consisted entirely of information and documents fabricated in FETÖ's 17-25 December operation, overshadows our interest in the flaws of this system.

THE US'S POLITICAL THEOLOGY TRICK

The subject is, of course, how something that had happened and ended in Turkey was carried to America with such a case, and with what thinking the American court was able to open such a case. Undoubtedly, the opening of such a case is, above all, itself a kind of show of force. Because being able to adjudicate is a claim to power. From the start, the opening, acceptance and continuation of the case is a power relationship that America has given to Turkey and tries to explain to and impose on Turkey.

In the past, the Constitutional Court used to make these shows of force on its own behalf or on behalf of the powers it was allied with, by accepting applications made to it on matters that were none of its business, on which it had been made incompetent by the constitution itself. Thus, by producing exceptions in the explicit text of the constitution, it would remind everyone who the sovereign was. The CHP members too had come to regard this path as the helpless sole refuge of their own power. With its decisions, the Constitutional Court made felt, by faits accomplis, the power of a deep power it represented, saying "I did it, it's done".

In the case being heard in the US as well, when this situation, entirely out of place by the laws, is announced as an exception and in a form that includes this claim of sovereignty, the fundamental working rule of political theology is in fact being operated. The sovereign is the one who can set and apply the exception. By entering a field that belongs to Turkey, America wants to remind who is sovereign over Turkey. In doing so, it ignores both the good relations between them and the impossibilities of the existing laws. There is no point in pretending not to understand how it does this. America does it knowingly anyway. It does not even try to fit anything into a pretext. All it wants is a show of force and, by this means, to remind Turkey of the form of relationship it deems fitting for Turkey and itself.

Why does the US feel the need to do this? It is of course not hard to guess. For a long time Turkey carried on its affairs having accepted this relationship of subjecthood with the US. It was badly dependent and did little in its foreign relations to overcome it. Yet Turkey first paid off its debt to the IMF down to the last kuruş, without being subject to the IMF's determining tutelage over economic policies. On top of that, it even offered to lend money to the IMF.

In the Davos and Mavi Marmara incidents that began earlier, Turkey strayed far from the role the US had envisioned for it, with bridges thrown to Israel, the US's extension in the Middle East. The punishment for this situation would not be long delayed. 7 February, the Gezi events, 17-25 December and 15 July were certainly attempts at punishment and obstruction brought into play against this state of being self-willed. When Turkey's leader Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and the AK Parti came out of all of this stronger, the US wanted once more, through this case, to remind Turkey of the roles that it and Turkey had long since agreed upon.

That the content of the case is entirely identical to the content of 17-25 December only reveals by whose hand the 17-25 December operation was carried out. In fact, in this way, of all the other operations or coup attempts too...

That the US, which until now has spared nothing against Turkey with its political-theology tricks, is trying to bring Turkey to its knees with this case also shows to some extent that the trumps in its hand are about to run out. Because putting forward its own legal system in this way for its political ambitions, resorting to exceptions, is an expression of exhaustion.

Thank God, there is no longer a Turkey that would give a premium to the false god of this political theology that invites submission and obedience to itself.

However, let us also note that those who look for help from this case, which was obviously opened by certain parties to bring Turkey to its knees, are in this way accepting and applauding America's claim of sovereignty and mastery over Turkey.

Having noted that, let us also note, reminding once more that when we say America we are speaking not of a monolithic America, and in no case of an America that looks at every issue always the same way and can set a will from a single center.

America, as a system, is a place that parallel elements can penetrate by means of money and lobbying skills, and a market that can offer everyone an equal chance in this.

Today we face the operation of a part that FETÖ has penetrated by mobilizing all its himmet income and lobbying skills, and a typical example of what kind of quagmire American justice can be dragged into by such parallel infiltrations..