They destroyed shops and buildings, they clashed with security forces, burnt down official vehicles, attacked police stations to get the “suspects,” who were believed to be Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) members. In these two small towns, events seemed to have started for different reasons but they progressed in almost identical patterns. “Nationalist Turks” wanted to lynch Kurds and scare them away from their neighborhoods.All my senses and gut feelings tell me that these incidents and other possible provocations that may follow them are neither incidental nor spontaneous; they had been prepared for some time.
Since 1915 not a single mass provocation or massacre has developed spontaneously on this soil. They all had been prepared quite masterfully and diligently. Armenian massacres in 1915, anti-Jewish pogroms in 1934, anti-Greek and Armenian pogroms in 1955, the Alevi massacres of 1978, the Sivas massacre of 1993, they all were carefully planned and organized by the deep state elements in this country. Since Turkey has never had a full confrontation with these tragic events, with this lynching culture or with the institutional mentality which created the necessary infrastructure for these incidents to occur, this human eating machine has been passed from one generation to another.
At this point I would like to share with you a quite irritating attitude of some Westerners with regard to atrocities in Turkey. Some Westerners are quite ready to believe whatever you say about the “deep state” which destroyed and massacred non-Muslims in Turkey; however, when it comes to Ergenekon and recent provocations they seem to believe that your explanations are just “urban legends.” A schizophrenic Western mentality appears when dealing with Turkey’s past and present. They do not want to see that those who carried out all these massacres and the so-called modernizing forces of Turkey were exactly the same people. They do not want to see the continuation between the Turkification of Anatolia and the modernization of Turkey.
In one of my recent articles I tried to explain the provocative role of the Hürriyet daily in the 1955 pogroms. From this historical perspective, do not underestimate the psychological link between Hürriyet columnists’ “innocent call” to question whether Turks and Kurds must live together and these angry Turkish citizens’ efforts to send Kurds “back” to the Southeast. Hürriyet’s writers have always been quite inspired to show angry Turks where they can unleash their “intense” feelings.
Who are these “angry Turks”? Most of them are “grey wolves,” namely Turkish ultranationalists. Exactly as they had played their roles in the massacres before 1980, now they are also quite active among the masses who tried to lynch the Kurds. Before 1980, the Turkish Gladio used these ultranationalist groups and I am 100 percent sure that if it is investigated thoroughly these people’s connections with deep state elements, like their ancestors’ connections before the 1980 coup, will also be revealed. I would not be surprised if it is found out that the local press and media had been playing quite a provocative role for some time in these regions.
Today, a civil war between Kurds and Turks would be a panacea for the return of the deep state to its full strength and for the restoration of military guardianship. I know this is also seen by some circles as a kind of paranoia but I have no doubt that between some segments of the PKK and the Turkish deep state there are quite strong connections and channels. It was not and would not be a surprise to witness PKK attacks in regions which are most ready for these kinds of mass provocations. Abdullah Öcalan, from his maximum security cell, had foreseen that “there might be some clashes between Kurds and Turks in some regions of Turkey.” So we can guess the PKK will intensify its attacks in these sensitive regions.
Just before the referendum for the constitutional amendments and at exactly the same time that the court ordered the detention of 102 high ranking military officers for allegedly being part of a coup plan against this government, nothing is happening for nothing.
We will witness these well-known stories more and more: “All these terrible things happening because of the Kurdish opening and so-called democratization efforts,” “The Turkish military cannot fight against the PKK efficiently because they are extremely demoralized due to this Ergenekon investigation and recent arrest waves,” “All we need is to restore the old system,” “After all, Ergenekon and other such ‘fantasies’ were produced to weaken the secular structure of Turkey,” “If only we could get rid of this government,” and so on.
Our story is 100 years old. Can we get rid of this monster, the deep state? Yes, if only we could stop being deceived by the fairytales that are constantly being told on this soil. So, be alert out there, everything depends on your awareness.
