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Every night has its dawn
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Turkey is a strange country with rather odd sayings: "He tells the truth at the police station but errs in court" is one of these. This saying indeed reflects the communal psychology of the country from the troublesome 1960s through the 1990s. This saying, indeed, as well testifies to the bitter "tradition" of establishing the evidence of a crime through "interrogating" the "potential suspects" rather than finding the criminals using the evidence of a crime.
There have been many odd jokes about how the interrogation teams of any country can make anyone confess to anything in a short period of time Ğ one going to the extreme of an elephant being "sufficiently motivated" to testify he was the much-sought-after criminal of an eastern country.
These jokes, indeed, reflect the deep wounds inflicted on the communal psychology by some "extremely talented" security personnel who were applying all kinds of systematic torture during interrogations. Put aside an elephant confessing to being a criminal; one could confess to anything under such "persuasive interrogations." Once placed in the middle of such an ordeal, anyone would confess to have committed any crime Ğ even to a series of crimes committed in the same time span in various parts of the country in a "miraculous way." Otherwise, after being "interrogated" through various chambers equipped with state of the art "high technology," a suspected criminal might be found dead on a bench in a park.
Nowadays, apart from the mafia and that kind of soap opera Ğ all cultivating a "culture of violence" in Turkish society Ğ or stories of heavenly figures helping people extricate themselves from worldly problems, there are as well some "very serious" newspaper reports or news bulletins "enlightening" the nation about how a bunch of geriatric generals, officers and academics collaborated with mafia figures and some common criminals and were about to topple the elected government of the country with some used rocket launchers (that cannot be used again), some obsolete hand grenades or several thousand bullets of different calibers. Interesting enough, those "arms caches" were found buried in some current or former military zones, firing grounds or at cemeteries but somehow they were in such good shape (without oil or mud on them) as if they were buried just a few hours ago.
Media-judges, summary executions
Worst, perhaps because of the fact that most of the "suspected criminals" in this latest episode of the "Great Turkish Justice" novel are geriatrics or "important" or "formerly important" people, rather than getting their confessions through "interrogation" at police stations or in detention houses, they are being detained and evidence of the crimes they might have committed are looked for later in their houses or work places. Besides, through summary executions on the front pages or on main news bulletins of allegiant media, not only are the suspected crimes are being "verified" and the "criminals" sentenced but the "sentences" delivered by the media-judges were put into implementation as well. It can be argued that this Ergenekon soap opera is nothing less than a systematic effort to "refresh" the memories of our recent past and "help" the nation think once again about whether coups were products of the chaotic atmosphere with economic difficulties, anarchy and a rampant sense of insecurity or the chaotic atmosphere itself was created at those times as well with the aim and intention of plotting a coup.
Indeed, I still feel the pain of, being compelled by my fear of police, in 1980 burning most books in my library in the small toilet of my flat, remembering how terribly intellectuals possessing "dangerous books" were treated during the interim rule in 1971. This is systematic fear-mongering.
And the political authority, which appears not so interested in facilitating the judicial process against the Turkish leg of the Lighthouse e.V. Islamist charity fund sham has become itself the "prosecutor" of the Ergenekon trial, which marked yesterday its 100th session while scores are still waiting in prison or in hospital beds to be officially accused or indicted. But, we have to be confident. As it is implied in the "Every night has its dawn" saying, whatever the difficulties might be, there will be an end to them and fresh hope will emerge again.
These jokes, indeed, reflect the deep wounds inflicted on the communal psychology by some "extremely talented" security personnel who were applying all kinds of systematic torture during interrogations. Put aside an elephant confessing to being a criminal; one could confess to anything under such "persuasive interrogations." Once placed in the middle of such an ordeal, anyone would confess to have committed any crime Ğ even to a series of crimes committed in the same time span in various parts of the country in a "miraculous way." Otherwise, after being "interrogated" through various chambers equipped with state of the art "high technology," a suspected criminal might be found dead on a bench in a park.
Nowadays, apart from the mafia and that kind of soap opera Ğ all cultivating a "culture of violence" in Turkish society Ğ or stories of heavenly figures helping people extricate themselves from worldly problems, there are as well some "very serious" newspaper reports or news bulletins "enlightening" the nation about how a bunch of geriatric generals, officers and academics collaborated with mafia figures and some common criminals and were about to topple the elected government of the country with some used rocket launchers (that cannot be used again), some obsolete hand grenades or several thousand bullets of different calibers. Interesting enough, those "arms caches" were found buried in some current or former military zones, firing grounds or at cemeteries but somehow they were in such good shape (without oil or mud on them) as if they were buried just a few hours ago.
Media-judges, summary executions
Worst, perhaps because of the fact that most of the "suspected criminals" in this latest episode of the "Great Turkish Justice" novel are geriatrics or "important" or "formerly important" people, rather than getting their confessions through "interrogation" at police stations or in detention houses, they are being detained and evidence of the crimes they might have committed are looked for later in their houses or work places. Besides, through summary executions on the front pages or on main news bulletins of allegiant media, not only are the suspected crimes are being "verified" and the "criminals" sentenced but the "sentences" delivered by the media-judges were put into implementation as well. It can be argued that this Ergenekon soap opera is nothing less than a systematic effort to "refresh" the memories of our recent past and "help" the nation think once again about whether coups were products of the chaotic atmosphere with economic difficulties, anarchy and a rampant sense of insecurity or the chaotic atmosphere itself was created at those times as well with the aim and intention of plotting a coup.
Indeed, I still feel the pain of, being compelled by my fear of police, in 1980 burning most books in my library in the small toilet of my flat, remembering how terribly intellectuals possessing "dangerous books" were treated during the interim rule in 1971. This is systematic fear-mongering.
And the political authority, which appears not so interested in facilitating the judicial process against the Turkish leg of the Lighthouse e.V. Islamist charity fund sham has become itself the "prosecutor" of the Ergenekon trial, which marked yesterday its 100th session while scores are still waiting in prison or in hospital beds to be officially accused or indicted. But, we have to be confident. As it is implied in the "Every night has its dawn" saying, whatever the difficulties might be, there will be an end to them and fresh hope will emerge again.
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