Can there be a "natural death" in unnatural conditions? The death of Essam el-Erian

14 August is not only the anniversary of the AK Party's founding. It is also the anniversary of the day in Egypt when, after a coup full of intrigue, in order to break civil resistance against itself, the coup carried out its savage massacre, adding crime to crime and shame to humanity's shame. That the two coincide on the same day is also, in fact, a symbolic coincidence of how valid and decisive the opposition of the two politics is today in the Islamic world.

In the Middle East, the politics in the style of the well-known world order consists of coups, massacres, human rights violations, torture, scorpion prisons, people being killed in broad daylight with a saw, and the country's resources being handed over to foreigners as a gift. Because the rulers of these countries do not rely on their own peoples, they think they will owe their existence to the bribes they will give to foreigners. For that reason, cut off from their peoples, they look for help from Israel, the USA or the imperialist countries of Europe. There is no concession they do not make for this. And so the UAE's crown prince finally made his secret love for Israel manifest. They had not until now shown their own peoples such open disrespect, nor so openly denied the will of their own peoples; it has now come to this point.

This is a forbidden love of MBZ's that he could not explain even to his own father. But now he announces it with all his shamelessness, without even feeling the need to hide it from anyone.

This style of politics is of course highly compatible with the USA and Israel, so despite all their vileness, all their human rights violations, all their murders and corruption, they do not receive serious criticism. Because the USA, Israel and certain EU circles are their direct accomplices.

The other of this politics is Turkey. Turkey, which in the Islamic world has made government dependent on the will of its own people, conducts its country's politics in harmony with its people, and has a democratic administration that is itself a reflection of its people's will. Turkey, which with this performance has achieved serious development over the last 18 years and which pursues its own rights in the region to the very end. Such a Turkey is a spoilsport Turkey. A Turkey that does not give them the chance to run wild in the Middle East and the Mediterranean as they wish. A Turkey that throws a wrench into the plans of Zionism, which until now have run as smoothly as pulling a hair from butter.

Would it not be necessary to stop it?

Was no attempt made to stop it?

How many operations, how many coup attempts have been made against Erdoğan, who has made Turkey play this role until now?

Here now are the two styles of politics meeting on 14 August.

In fact, one of them is not even politics: intrigue, coup, treason, occupation, massacre, crimes against humanity.

In the massacre that took place in Rabia Square in Egypt on 14 August 2013, around 3 thousand people were killed by volleys of fire opened by the security forces themselves. And the tents where the bodies of the dead were gathered were themselves collected by the security forces with construction machinery and set on fire along with the bodies and the wounded inside. The cruelty that the coup plotters deemed fit for their own citizens left behind scenes that will not be erased from people's conscience for centuries. None of those subjected to this treatment was carrying so much as a pocketknife. The Egyptian soldier was displaying violence and rage against his completely civilian, innocent citizens, whose only offense was protesting the coup, that he had never displayed against the Israeli soldier or against any other foreign enemy.

For someone who deems such treatment fit for his own citizens, to say nothing of being the ruler of his country, even walking freely in his country for an hour is a great cruelty to humanity. Today that ruler, with all his lies, his treason, his bloody hands and his incompetence in government, governs a great country like Egypt.

Most of those who could not be killed in Rabia Square on 14 August were captured and thrown into prison. Some were tried in sham courts and sentenced to death. In any case, the dungeons that kill slowly through torture and mistreatment also foretell the fate of the rest. In the dungeons, where several people turn up dead every week, Muhammed Mehdi Akif, one of the Ikhwan's leaders, over 90 years old, died in 2017 because no need for any treatment was seen. Last year Muhammed Mursi's assassination-like death took place before everyone's eyes.

As coincidence would have it, this year too, on the very day coinciding with the anniversary of the Rabia massacre, Essam el-Aryan, Deputy Chairman of the Freedom and Justice Party (HAP), passed away at the age of 66. Aryan, who was arrested on 30 October 2013 and had been held in prison for about 7 years, is said to have lost his life as a result of a "heart attack" in Scorpion Prison, known for its systematic torture and mistreatment.

Egyptian officials made a two-word statement about his death: "Natural death." No explanation whatsoever about what came before or after. It was known that Aryan had not met, could not meet, any relative or lawyer for months. Not only he, but no detainee in Scorpion Prison.

Can there be a natural death under unnatural conditions?

Can there be a natural death when people are deprived of the right to treatment, of the most basic human rights, especially in conditions that constantly invite death like a scorpion prison?

That Aryan's death coincided precisely with 14 August is like a wish for bearing witness that he wanted to make, as he left the world, about what he, his country and the Islamic world have gone through. May God accept his witness and exalt him to the rank of martyrdom.