Revealed by the Taraf daily in June, the “action plan” included “planting weapons in some people’s houses and then making it seem as if they belong to people from the Gülen movement and then trying to paint them as a terrorist organization; conspiring to provoke hatred amongst Sunnis and Alevis by fabricating anti-Alevi documents in Sunni households; fabricating information about the suspects in the Ergenekon trial and misleading the court; using controlled Islamist leaders to create a fabricated threat of Shariah; using media to discredit the Gülen movement and the [Justice and Development Party] AK Party; creating division inside the AK Party through agents planted inside the party; portraying the Gülen movement as in cooperation with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party [PKK], the CIA and Mossad; appearing on TV and radio and making false confessions about the Gülen movement; provoking tension with Greece and Armenia in order to mobilize nationalist sentiments,” etc.These were explicit plots against people, law and order and democratic governance that amount to criminal acts in any decent country. Is it possible in any normal country to see such a criminal plan prepared by one (or more) high-ranking military officer? What would happen to them in a normal law-abiding democratic state?
What happened in Turkey then was that the military prosecutor did not find it worth investigating, and the chief of General Staff used the occasion to accuse others of fabricating such a document as part of a psychological operation against the military.
Obtaining the original document the criminal laboratories now proved that the “action plan” was prepared and signed by Col. Çiçek from the headquarters of the General Staff.
What will İlker Başbuğ do now about this “piece of paper” designed to “finish off democracy” in Turkey?
While we were all expecting a detailed explanation from the military expressing its determination to combat any criminal network within its ranks, the military headquarters issued the other day a statement still criticizing those who leaked the original document and its publication by the media instead of disassociating itself from the wrongdoers.
Like any individual and state institution in this country the military and its personnel too are subject to the law. Aren’t they? As such they are accountable to the people and law.
It is time to stop and think for the military brass. They must realize that everything they have is at stake: the trust of the people. Nothing can be covered up in this age. Transparency is inevitable. The only way out for the military is transparency and abiding by the law.
Beyond the military it is a matter for the people at large. Establishing a full-fledged democracy requires an accountable military, accountable to its people and to the law of the country. A full-fledged democracy is not possible with such plans, and personnel getting away with whatever they do, in the military. The people are determined to establish democracy whether the military likes it or not. They had better prepare themselves for this.
As I wrote on June 15, 2009 after the authentication of such a plan, we can never be sure of the identities of the perpetuators of past events that shocked the nation. No provocative act in Turkey’s past can be understood without taking into account those self-appointed people who appear in uniforms.
I am repeating myself; Gen. Başbuğ should resign or be dismissed by the government as a new start. This is not a joke; at the heart of his headquarters, someone is plotting criminal activities, according to an authenticated document. This means that either he is not in control of his headquarters or...
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