Recently, the police excavated land belonging to Bedrettin Dalan in Poyrazköy and found weapons, bombs, explosives and at that time, LAWs were heatedly discussed. As you know, LAWs are single use and when they are used, they can destroy armored vehicles. In other words, no one can underestimate these weapons. Even considering the intended use of these weapons, one can have doubts about planned assassination of important people who travel in armored vehicles. While the situation is so grave, why should an experienced politician take such a light attitude toward it? One cannot understand. While only six of the LAWs unearthed in Poyrazköy were empty, 15 were loaded, i.e., unused. For some reason, many people tended to stress the empty ones while turning a blind eye to the loaded ones. Even the chief of general staff brought an empty LAW to the press conference he held with some reporters and described how these weapons are operated. This may have served as an informative presentation. At that conference, Chief of General Staff Gen. İlker Başbuğ had said that he did not understand why empty LAWs should be buried. Isn't it obvious? Those who are planning to perform assassinations using the loaded LAWs could use the empty ones for training purposes. Moreover, there is an ongoing trial where people are tried for being members of a terrorist organization seeking to create chaos in the country. There is nothing to be optimistic about in the existing situation.
Dalan said something like, "While this land is owned by us, only soldiers are allowed to enter." However, the chief of general staff clearly denied Dalan's statement, saying that every Turkish citizen can easily enter the land in question. Even, we learned that anyone can picnic in Poyrazköy. First Vakit newspaper, then Radikal newspaper, wanted to test these statements and attempted to enter the land in question, but found out it is forbidden to enter it.
Now, the CHP leader is taking the matter to other courses and he describes the empty LAWs as "pipes without the bullets." Suppose they are, since they are empty. Yes, but how should we describe the loaded LAWs? Shall we call them "pipes with the bullets"? The CHP members may even use the following definition: "LAWs are called pipes. These pipes are classified into two groups: the pipes with the bullets and the pipes without the bullets."
This is the resulting picture: Some CHP members (and even some journalists) tend to call LAW LOVE based on similarity of pronunciation of two words. If they can find a more proper environment, they will start to shout the slogan, "I love you, Ergenekon," as soccer fans do for their teams during matches.
But LAW or LOVE, these weapons are not the only kind of weapons or munitions seized by the police. Indeed, let us brush aside the arsenals discovered before, but list only those found in the land that belongs to Dalan: 14 hand grenades, 24 hand grenade fuses, 450 grams of C-3 explosives, seven arbiter bombs, three demonstration bombs, five booby traps, 23 signal rockets, 45 smoke bombs, 15 flashing rockets, 30 meters of explosive fuse (cortex), 30 meters of time fuse, 3,017 bullets in various sizes and so forth.
Should more be said about it? This is the inventory of findings only from a single spot. But our media organizations are discussing whether to call this organization a terrorist organization. Even during the press conference of the chief of general staff, journalist Mehmet Ali Birand said, "Weapons are spurting out of the ground," and the general went mad. The debate focused on the verb, "spurt," he used. As Birand said, spurting is a metaphoric usage and journalists can use metaphors. In fact, if you try to restrict the usage of words, metaphors will be of no use. Similarly, discussing whether the organization in question should be named “Ergenekon” or whether reference to accusations should be made is senseless.
Yet, Mr. Baykal came to the rescue with his newly found metaphor: pipe. This metaphor should be recorded. And next to this record we should place the case file on Ergenekon, with some 5,000 pages full of evidence. Then, the word “pipe” will acquire a new meaning (or lack thereof).
