Taraf’s Ahmet Altan says Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is the principal target since Fidan was hand-picked by Erdoğan for his position, which is an unexpected development even by Turkey’s standards. Right after the MİT officials were summoned, the government removed two police officers who directed the operations against the KCK from their duties. “With these developments, all of a sudden two groups emerged before our eyes: There is cooperation between the police and the judiciary and cooperation between the government and MİT.
Our state is divided into these groups. And the government’s immediate removal of the two police officers from their duties indicates that the government holds at least some people in the police force responsible for the summoning of the MİT officials,” says Altan, highlighting that we are actually in a period in which the government’s control over the state is in decline. We first saw this lack of control in the military in the Uludere incident in which 34 civilians were mistakenly killed by the military and now we see the weak state of the judiciary.
On the other hand Yeni Şafak’s Abdülkadir Selvi differentiates between two different groups within the state: one that is in favor of operations and another that is in favor of dialogue. Selvi says the police force and the judiciary are in the first group, and the government is in the second.
“The judiciary apparently thinks that resuming dialogue with the PKK hinders the military’s ability to carry out operations against terrorists and gives the PKK a feeling of psychological superiority. The judiciary’s argument is that maintaining a dialogue with the PKK and doing nothing while waiting for a healthy dialogue gives the PKK time to improve its urban structure,” says Selvi. However, the recent summoning of MİT officials to testimony reveals that a war has broken out between the two groups, and unless Erdoğan intervenes in the situation, it will get much more complicated. Erdoğan is the key person, says Selvi, because the individuals being “suspected” are not Fidan or other MİT officials but the government’s desire to solve the terrorism issue through dialogue, which is simply Erdoğan’s plan and promise.
In her article “There are people who want to hamper the investigation into the three MİT officials,” Sabah’s Nazlı Ilıcak notes that there are allegations that some of the suspects arrested within the scope of the KCK investigations were revealed to be MİT officials. “If these claims prove to be true, why then is it a problem to suspect more MİT officials? And if they are not true, why are there such claims in the first place?” asks Ilıcak, adding that it should not go unconsidered that MİT can be suspected as well, and its officials can be tried by the judiciary, especially when we recall the confusion about MİT’s alleged relation to the Uludere incident.
