I am going nuts

*(...) Who is İbahim Şahin whom the former Prime Minister Mesut Yılmaz as well said, ’he is the leader of killers?’ Şahin (...) is a hero who fought for 10 years exactly against the bandits of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, up in the mountains in the East and Southeast. He was injured three or four times but never gave up. Şahin continued his struggle..." Answer: Nazlı Ilıcak. She is waging a war against gangs and poking the ammunition dump that was explored in the light of a sketch drawn by Şahin into the eyes of people who are having reservations about the Ergenekon!

An article by Rıza Zelyut titled "Nazlı Ilıcak was Şahin’s guard," and published in an online newspaper (Sol Birlik -- www.solbirlik.net) includes excerpts from Ilıcak’s article published in the Akşam daily on Dec. 12, 1993. Why is Ilıcak lashing out at Yılmaz? Following the Susurluk incident, Yılmaz as the leader of the Motherland Party, or ANAP, then, said in a letter to president of the time, Süleyman Demirel:

Special Operation Unit is in the body of the Security Department. Some members of this unit are involved in drug trafficking, gambling, racketeering and murdering. Confessions of the killers of Ömer Lütfi Topal are quite interesting. Although they came clean, these individuals were sent to Ankara and are free nowÉ It’s being told that some state officials are given orders by the head of the Special Operation Unit, Şahin, and that several high posts including the Interior Ministry is aware of the situation. There are at least 100 to 120 people involved in such crimes. They are murderers working under the state." Ilıcak’s article was said to be a response to this letter! A friend of mine reading the said online newspaper told me that there is nothing wrong with Ilıcak’s change of attitude so I shouldn’t go nuts about it. My friend says Şahin is the man of the Erbakan-Çiller government at that time. And the government today is against Şahin!

As my friend put, Ilıcak is a journalist of the governments not Şahins!

*All right. But what about the following? After the 10th wave of detentions, all retired generals under arrest were released only Professor Yalçın Küçük was kept! No one knows why the generals were taken in first and released afterward. However, according to my friend this is not a surprise either. My friend points out to the visit of Chief of General Staff Gen. İlker Başbuğ to Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan who keeps shouting, "The judiciary is independent." "This is normal, quite normal," says my friend talking about the cooperation at the top of the state.

* According to Şahin’s deposition leaked to the press, two active generals assigned him a special task; he was even asked to pick 300 men for the task. I expected the General Staff to fiercely react this outrageous claim. We finally heard a disclaimer toward noon. "In Şahin’s game, every lie is lawful," says my friend.

* Şahin is crazy enough to forget the sketches at home but smart enough to write a book. This is normal too, according to my friend. In our state tradition, there is this İsmet İnönü opening. He was hearing impaired but was said to be hearing whatever suited him.

* "All right. There is an answer for everything. But how could’ve Yalçın Küçük committed a coup?" I asked my friend. "He was to lash people into a fury," my friend said. "How come?" I asked. "While you were watching Küçük on television, what kind of a feeling you were having?" my friend asked me. After I said, "I was feeling agitated," I kept my silence.

According to my friend, the reason is why I am going nuts is that I am clueless. My friend believes I do not understand the sensitive texture that was born out of Turkey’s own historic conditions and based on a tradition of hustle bustle, a blind conflict of interest and bias. This is such a texture that never needs reason and solid information.