"Loser" fantasies for Turkey

We are quite far from the point where the stubborn stopping and attempted searching, by prosecutors who are supposed to be bound to the Republic of Turkey, of trucks under MİT control in Adana can be understood as justice or the pursuit of crime. If evidence is being sought for parallel structures within the state, no better evidence is needed than this insistence and obstinacy. Because under Article 26 of the MİT law, it is out of the question for any prosecutor to make such a request without permission from the Prime Ministry, let alone to insist on that request. It is therefore quite clear that the prosecutors draw their authority and courage not from the sphere of the law they are subject to but from somewhere else.

Wherever they draw it from, it is also quite clear that this courage is not a heroic courage and is not based on a national or humanitarian motive. Because the image these operations try to give the world is nothing other than an image of a Turkey that supports terror. For this image there is no need to actually reveal what is inside the TIRs. It is evidently assumed that the image will form sufficiently once the news of the operation hits the news agencies. Pay no heed to questions like "if there is nothing to be accounted for, why not let them search?" These questions can be asked shamelessly, either by exploiting people's naivety or by treating people as naive fools. Yet there is a truth that anyone with a little familiarity with the nature of the matter will appreciate: an institution does not involve others in its own sphere of authority. A prosecutor's insistence on searching a vehicle under MİT control is a violation of authority, and turning a blind eye to this violation means becoming a partner to it. Presenting MİT's refusal to involve others in its own sphere of authority as a kind of confession of guilt only indicates the point to which the psychological war being waged on this matter has sunk.

With the MİT and TIR news they are trying to reduce Turkey to a state of being a loser. In this way they are trying to prevent Turkey from taking the initiative regarding what is going on around it and from being influential in developments. It would still be understandable for pro-Syria Baathists, or for Iran, which wants Assad to remain in power despite everything, to exaggerate this news. But isn't it more telling than the timing itself that the community media, which at the same time tries to stick the pro-Iran label on Hakan Fidan, the head of MİT, is pursuing with passion and excitement a campaign that ultimately strengthens Iran's theses and position? Is it possible that the community, whose most important criticism of Turkey's foreign policy is pro-Iranism, does not know that it is clearly standing side by side with Iran here?

It is also interesting that the TIR-related news has not slowed down while the photos of people brutally killed through inhuman torture in Syria have stirred consciences all over the world.

What has been going on in Syria for 3 years is not really a secret, but these photographs show that a savagery no less than the atrocities of concentration camps is taking place in this age and at this distance. Faced with these photographs, perhaps everyone, especially Turkey, because of its stance on these events, would be expected to be struck dumb. Because the most important actor that tries to awaken the world, which has played the three monkeys regarding all these events in Syria, and that has taken responsibility and initiative toward stopping the blood flowing in Syria, is Turkey.

In the face of so many crimes against humanity, no one can be fully rid of the burden of sin. Because of the insensitivity we have shown toward this savagery unfolding right next to us, of course all of us are guilty, but if this guilt has an atonement, the only country paying it is Turkey.

Despite this entire scene, it can be assessed that the account of the TIRs had a goal such as rendering Turkey unable to speak at the Geneva 2 meeting. Perhaps what was desired was for Turkey to be coded as a country that supports terror, like Iran, and thereby to prolong Assad's life in Syria. That Turkey was pushed into this position by its own prosecutors is of course not a situation that can easily be glossed over. These efforts aimed at making Turkey a loser on an international platform show nothing other than someone's own loserness. In the end, at Geneva 2, entered under the witness of these photographs, nobody must have been left with the face to get stuck on the TIRs. Contrary to what was desired, Turkey continued to show its moral superiority at this meeting.

In the same way, fantasies were constructed that Prime Minister Erdoğan, going to Brussels, would be warned, even almost scolded, by EU representatives over the HSYK regulation. CHP Chairman Kılıçdaroğlu, before Prime Minister Erdoğan set out, gave Brussels the tips needed to be able to corner the Prime Minister of the Republic of Turkey. On the basis of these tips, in some circles this Brussels trip was even given the air of the nineties' MGK. Those MGK meetings, you know, where governments were made to sweat bead by bead and where a media army waited outside for images or messages about these situations.

Of course, the simplest thing to say about this is that they either still have not been able to get to know Prime Minister Erdoğan or still have not learned to count. They have not understood that the dream of a loser Turkey, which they construct in the person of Prime Minister Erdoğan, will never come true.

Indeed, the Brussels trip ended as a complete disappointment for their fantasies and, of course, as a real gain for Turkey. In its results, it brought a mutual understanding that Turkey continues on its EU path without any concession from its determination.

As for the HSYK, it was also clearly seen that the regulation being attempted on this matter is by no means behind EU standards.