As for those asking the questions, we can divide them into two groups: those who approach the subject with a democratic reflex and those who try to sidetrack the discussion.
Those in the first group naturally first focus their attention on the contents of the document. They ask questions about the hair-raising efforts detailed in the document, the plans to falsify evidence of crimes, engulfing the legitimate government with these claims and employing psychological war tactics against the public and media to carry out extrajudicial executions. The people in this group emphasize that no one has the right or authority to do such things. In the same manner, they wonder whether Col. Dursun Çiçek, whose signature is on the document, acted alone. They are holding a light up to the document to prevent Col. Çiçek from being used as a scapegoat to allow other criminals to escape. They’re keeping in mind those who could have personally participated in the document’s creation and concealment, working to uncover the probable connections between the document and the Ergenekon terror organization.
Those trying to redirect the course of the conversation also bring a score of questions to the agenda. For example, they say, “Why did the document emerge now?” This is a most illogical question. Since Turkey’s agenda hasn’t cooled down, the same comments and reactions would have been valid no matter when the document emerged. The interesting thing is that while some are asking, “Why did it emerge so late?” another segment is asking what all the rush is about.
Some find the action of the informant who produced the original document to be “hasty” given the process going on at the Constitutional Court regarding the law on the trial of military personnel by civilian courts; those who criticize the document’s late emergence have no concrete reason for doing so. The only one who can address these questions is the informant, should he or she emerge. His or her reason could be personal apprehension or conjectural reasons; it is of no importance. Those preoccupying themselves with this issue are wasting their time, as their investigation cannot result in any tools to obscure the gravity of the contents of the document and the peril of those who prepared it.
Another question is, “Why was the document sent to the Ergenekon case prosecutors in İstanbul instead of the Ankara Chief State Prosecutor’s Office?” This question ignores that the document’s existence was initially discovered at the office of attorney Serdar Öztürk, who is currently jailed as a suspect in the Ergenekon trial. It is known that Ankara only researched the authenticity of the document. If the document is authentic and was first seized from an Ergenekon suspect, then where it belongs is obvious. Even if it had been sent to Ankara, nothing would have happened except it being forwarded to the Ergenekon prosecutors. To be frank, asking questions in this regard also won’t bear any fruit.
Why are there so many news pieces surfacing in the media about the informant’s letter accompanying the original document? This question also isn’t very logical. For the media, which carry out their duty in the name of the public, to turn a deaf ear to provocative plans against the government and civil society would contradict their own reason for existence. It would actually be better to rephrase this question as such: Why are procedures regarding some issues not started until the media have covered them? Would the same results emerge had the media not carried the story? It’s looking like the power of the media is the only thing that can bring some truths to light. For example, the slaying of four soldiers when a soldier who fell asleep while on night watch was given a hand grenade with its pin pulled out as punishment. Had the story not reverberated in the media, would the records on the incident still have noted only an accident and the deaths as training casualties? Seeing as how there are still attempts to conceal a plan to conspire against the government and people, despite the media following the issue, I don’t even want to think about the answer to the question of “What if there were no media?”
The old delay tactics are no longer able to produce results. It’s now time to talk about the contents of the now-authenticated document and all the relevant parties. No illusion can conceal the existence of a junta that had its eye on a conspiracy against the legitimate, elected government. The public will not allow this. The political will, which has no intention of eradicating itself, will not allow this. And as Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said, “The Turkish military also cannot accept this stain.” Is not the clearest indicator that it has not accepted this the honorable Turkish colonel who is willing to take on great risks?
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