Junta supporters have another quality that we don’t mention enough and that is they are ruthless. Let us recall a section in the plan to finish off the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) and the Gülen movement published in the Taraf daily on June 12, 2009.
“We will enable the discovery of weapons, ammunition and documents at the addresses of Gülen’s followers as if they were members of a terrorist organization. The movement will be named ‘Fethullah’s Armed Terrorist Organization’ (FSTÖ), and investigations into its members will be carried out by military prosecutors. In addition to the weapons and ammunition to be discovered in raids based on tips, we will ensure that objects belonging to certain organizations [Judaism, the CIA, Mossad, the Unification Church, Khomeini, etc] will be found in the same place so as to make it seem like there is a connection with Gülen followers.”
Can this kind of ruthlessness exist within the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK), our precious army to whom we entrust the protection of our country? Can such cruel traps be planned against young people that have rented homes in a foreign city so they can be able to go to college? Can there be so much cruelty? Yes, there can because junta supporters are always ruthless.
They were ruthless when they hanged the prime minister and state ministers after the May 27 coup and when they declared the day of the coup a holiday.
They were ruthless when creating conflict between college students so as to pave the way for a coup and when watching 10-15 young people being killed each day.
They were ruthless when brutally torturing young people after the coup, when planning the deadly incidents in Kahramanmaraş, Çorum, Sivas and İstanbul’s Gazi neighborhood and when planning the fight between Alevis and Sunnis.
They were ruthless when 37 people burned to death in a fire that was started in a hotel in Sivas and when 33 people in Başbağlar were murdered under the disguise of a feud.
They were ruthless when Abdi İpekçi, Uğur Mumcu and Ahmet Taner Kışlalı were murdered. They were ruthless when 33 soldiers were killed in Bingöl, when a battalion was raided in Dağlıca killing 13 soldiers, when the gendarmerie general commander was assassinated and when a Turkish president was poisoned.
They were ruthless when 17,000 killings by unknown perpetrators happened in the Southeast, when 500,000 people were tortured in Diyarbakır Prison and when a Turkish-Kurdish conflict was prepared. Now as lawyers, journalists, writers and politicians, some people are trying to protect junta members and legitimize their actions by saying it was done to protect the republic. There is one person who is a professor of constitutional law that says: “If the plan is to finish Fethullah Gülen then, of course, the army can do it. [The] Gülen [group] is an illegal organization that is unacceptable according to Turkish law. The plan to finish Gülen may exist as part of the army’s constitutional responsibility.” (Süheyl Batum, Milliyet Oct. 28 2009). This professor is talking about a person that was acquitted of all charges by the Supreme Court of Appeals Penal General Committee.
No one should support these juntas because anyone that defends these ruthless people is ruthless himself. The time has come for the pro-junta mentality to leave this country. This mentality does not like freedom of ideas and expression and freedom of religion and conscience. This mentality cannot tolerate democracy or the national will. It only thrives on enmity and animosity. This pro-junta mentality is devoid of love and compassion. They do not have the slightest concern for human life because they do not like others. They are not in favor of repair but in favor of demolition. They are rude and disgruntled spirits. They are the biggest enemy toward our existence, our cognitive world, our social structure and our national will. They are more dangerous for our nation than the AIDS virus. Junta supporters are ruthless…
