Their understating of the Ergenekon operation and their non-critical stance as regards the criminal organization will be a source of shame for them in the future, other commentators say.Sabah daily's Emre Aköz says the media outlets in question have four things in common: They fuel fears about secularism being in danger in Turkey and its being overtaken by Shariah, they strongly support the AK Party closure case, they remain silent about the Ergenekon operation and they slam detentions in the Ergenekon case and present trivial things as very significant evidence to clear the Ergenekon suspects of charges levied against them. Referring to these media outlets' impatient wait for the Ergenekon indictment to be announced, Aköz says they have only one reason for their curiosity about the indictment. "No matter what is written in the indictment, they will downplay the charges and say, 'The mountain has given birth to a mouse.'" In Aköz's view, these media outlets are clearly supporting the Ergenekon gang, otherwise they would not have opened their pages for interviews with Ergenekon suspects detained over charges of establishing and running a terrorist organization. One point that he draws attention to is the affirmative attitude of the Turkish military about the Ergenekon operation, which he says is very hard to understand for these media circles. "If the Turkish military announces unease about the Ergenekon operation, their frenzy will continue and they will go on attacking the indictment. If the Turkish military approves of the Ergenekon operation, they will slowly discover what a dangerous organization Ergenekon is and they will all of a sudden start to write their news and columns to prove this," says Aköz.
Appealing to circles that are disturbed by the Ergenekon operation, Bugün daily's Gülay Göktürk asks: "Why are you feeling uncomfortable with this? Why are you disturbed about this if the first government, which has dared to clear the state of illegal gangs, is a pious government and if Turkey's glasnost will take place through the hands of this government? Should you not be pleased with this government's attempt to do something, which former Prime Minister Bülent Ecevit did not dare do, former politician Süleyman Demirel did not even attempt to do and Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Deniz Baykal never thought of doing?" She acknowledges that the government may see the conclusion of this operation as an assurance for its political survival, but emphasizes that this does not make this operation a "dirty war." According to Göktürk, there has been left very little time for those who term the Ergenekon operation dirty, to review their understanding of what is dirty and clean as she warns: "Otherwise, they will go down in history as partners of a dirty alliance."
