So as not to give way to a blackmail order

The brazen and reckless acts of those who confess their theft while presenting their valor, and who expose their coup while appearing to uphold the law, continue without interruption.

There is of course a social psychology to the damage they are willing to risk in order to win: if, for Erdoğan to lose, it must extend, if necessary, to sinking the country, if necessary to their own harm, they do not shrink from it. But their latest acts reveal a situation beyond every kind of psychiatric analysis.

The move said to be made, announced and advertised on 25 March, would in any case be the disclosure of a sound recording obtained by illegal means, or of information likewise obtained by illegal means, archived and processed. This disclosure is at the same time the challenge of a crime for which it is impossible, in conscience and in law, to go unpunished. The legal mind and conscience of a country cannot bear the challenge of a crime that has gained this much publicity.

That the challenge has extended to an attack on the country's national security gives sufficient clues about the "hizmet" addresses of the movement in question. Whoever the address of this service is, it is evident that it is sending the country nothing but betrayal.

The main material of the 17 December process is sound recordings. The truth revealed when the process failed to advance in the direction its perpetrators wanted is, so far, what kind of blackmail order has been established in Turkey through these recordings. With every sound recording brought onto the agenda, details of this blackmail order that we did not know emerge.

It is understood that through information obtained by wiretapping, many businessmen, politicians, journalists and artists have been taken into a circle of obedience. We have sufficient data to make more realistic guesses about the states of journalists, politicians or businessmen who are undergoing hard-to-understand changes in their attitudes today. Should we not wonder which oceans those gentlemen, who until yesterday were famous for cursing the gentleman in America, suddenly crossed, and which miracles they saw, to make a 180 degree turn?

We see that the parallel structure openly uses the information it obtained from sound recordings on social media as an element of blackmail against the government and political rivals. It is impossible for those who do this openly not to behave differently in places far from the eyes.

Indeed, countless examples and countless pieces of information are accumulating about which businessmen were pounced on with such sound recordings, in parallel court and police cooperation, who was bound to himmet extortion, and how the money collected was transferred under parallel judiciary and police protection.

Really, how did the CHP suddenly turn into a Cemaat party? What sound-recording or video-recording traffic operated there? And the MHP? After so many tape broadcasts, what share might the tapes not put on air have in the change in the MHP's attitude today?

The reason this blackmail order has not been exposed up to this stage is that the order has been established very solidly and that the people who are targets of blackmail have so far lacked the courage to oppose it. For people's private information to be used as a trump card against them is something extremely cruel.

The famous equation established between information and power is, in its most savage form, practically thrust before one's eyes. When you have information about people's privacy, you can enslave those people. That is why violating other people's privacy, spying, is among the gravest crimes, and a Camia that set out under a religious guise can today put forward its skill at spying as its greatest capital. There are those who shamelessly defend spying as in accordance with the decisions of the ECtHR.

So it turns out that all the people of a country can be taken captive through spying, through information obtained by illegal wiretapping. The structure we call the Camia has thus also given the concept of "hizmet" a creative dimension. It turns out everyone will be bound to the service somehow. But the service is neither service to Islam, nor service to Turkey, nor service to the nation. The whole service is the service everyone will perform for them, willingly or unwillingly, voluntarily or by force.

If not voluntarily, then it seems the only one who has refused to be bound to the service by force, by blackmail, has been Prime Minister Erdoğan. Although he learned that all the phones, premises and conversations of himself and his relatives had been listened to, he declared that he feared none of whatever recording or conversation might be brought out, and challenged them all. In this way he took the step that will bring an end to the blackmail order established by a structure that had come within a hair's breadth of taking Turkey captive, and will deliver Turkey from a very heavy occupation.

It is not in vain that this step is called a renewed War of Independence.

Since it is no longer a secret to whom this blackmail order wants to subscribe the will of the people of Turkey in service, the decision we give on 30 March will also determine our place in this War of Independence.