Tufan Turenc: While the holiday on Ekinlik Island continues.......

According to the authors of these letters, Tayyip Erdogan has the right to say and do whatever he wants. For example, allowing businessman Remzi Gur to pay for the hundreds of thousands of dollars in education fees racked up by his own children. If a situation like this were revealed in a thinking, knowledgeable society, Tayyip's political life would have ended a long time ago. But AKP supporters, rather than getting angry at Erdogan, swear at the reporters who react to the Prime Minister's actions.

More interesting even is the stance that some well-known intellectuals take in response to Tayyip Erdogan's ethically unacceptable actions. They pretend not to know, see, or care. Tayyip displays the same stance: "What is it? Can't people give grants to those they wish?"
 
As you probably know, Tayyip Erdogan has been vacationing the last few days at Remzi Gur's villa on Ekinlik Island. So, let's ask those who defend Tayyip Erdogan to the death:
 
"Are these vacations really natural?"
 
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In truth, the people of this country are enveloped by an incredible lack of awareness.
 
Just think about the Cuneyz Zapsu incidents. Zapsu met last week in Ankara with a number of foreign ambassadors, engaging in a sort of shadow diplomacy. According to their statements, neither the Turkish Foreign Ministry nor the Prime Minister's cabinet members know anything about these meetings. Then the Ankara group asks Tayyip Erdogan, and it turns out he too knows nothing about these meetings. Or so he says at the time. But later, at a press conference he gives while vacationing on Ekinlik Island, Erdogan says "Cuneyd Zapsu is a friend who I appointed. I give him these tasks from time to time."
 
In a European country, if a prime minister were to make statements which contradicted eachother like this within the period of one week, he political life would be over in that week. But we are in Turkey, and so the man stays at his job.

 
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Let's look at another example from Tayyip Erdogan: the situation with Saudi businessman El Kadi, who is on the UN list of people who support terror. Not only do we find out that El Kadi was once a partner of Zapsu's, but it is revealed that Erdogan too knows him. And what's more, Zapsu introduced them. When reporters ask Erdogan about this all, here's the response they get: "El Kadi is a respectable man. I have has much faith in him as I have in myself." What does the American Ambassador to Ankara, Wilson, think of this all? (After all, he too is someone Zapsu seems to meet with on a regular basis.) Wilson said, in reference to the El Kadi question, "Every country has a responsibility to act in harmony with UN decisions."

Even Washington, DC feels the need to repeat this warning with relation to the El Kadi matter. But when we turn the same reasoning to the question of the PKK, America continues to forget this same edict. Most Turkish people do not apparently believe that America is being faithful to Turkey on the question of the PKK in Northern Iraq. I wonder whether the AKP government believes Washington, DC?Â