Questions and confessions

Did the Justice Ministry ask Germany through channels of diplomacy to send Turkey the entire Lighthouse scandal file or did the ministry just pretended as if it asked that file and sent by post a letter to the German Justice Ministry? Has that letter reached the German Justice Ministry?

Who were implicated in Turkey in the scandal, and what were the positions they occupy in Turkish bureaucracy and administration? If not only in that scandal but also in a housing cooperative sham the name of a senior bureaucrat was mentioned, is the government required to at least open an investigation against that bureaucrat? If the position of that bureaucrat specifically prohibits him of undertaking any administrative duty apart from his official position and apart from being implicated in those shameful scandals, if he is proved to have violated that restriction, should the prime ministry approve requests to prosecute that bureaucrat or order investigations against him be closed down?

Obviously developments regarding the Lighthouse scandal case testifies to the reluctance of the ruling Justice and Development Party, or AKP, to act on that issue. Why? Because what will be at stake might not be just the head of the Television High Board, or RTÜK, chairman but the very existence of the AKP as well. Why? Well, what if an investigation proves that some of the siphoned charity fund landed in the coffers of the AKP or somewhere at the Prime Ministry? Turkish laws say that Constitutional Court may close down a political party if it is proved that it received foreign financial assistance.

Or, what does it mean if the prosecutor of the so-called "Ergenekon terror gang" trial decides to ask some 37 questions to Tuncay Güney, the fake rabbi living in Canada on whose testimonies several years ago now constitutes the backbone of the Ergenekon trial, but somehow the questions of the prosecutor were sent to the Toronto residence of the brother of a reporter of the pro-government Yeni Şafak newspaper? Why the questions were sent to that address, furthermore, why did not the prosecutor send the questions through the Foreign Ministry channel?

Erdoğan the co-chairman
The prime minister was confessing yesterday that he was the co-chairman of the Wider Middle East Project of the outgoing Neo-cons in the United States. The premier was confessing that he knew that this project was aiming to "restructure" the entire Middle East. But, he agreed to undertake the duty of "co-chairman" of that project because he believed the project was aiming to bring peace to the Middle East, enhance individual freedoms in the region, improve rights and liberties of women.

So, what was Turkey’s role in this project as "co-chairman?" The prime minister apparently has no idea about what the Wider Middle East Project roles of Turkey or himself are other than he was the "co-chairman." Or, was he trying to hide from us that his duty as co-chairman was to create, strengthen and consolidate a "moderate Islamic Turkish republic" as a role model for the radical Islamic administrations elsewhere in the Muslim states of the region? Or, was the premier unaware that the aim of the project was to provide security of Israel?

Or, is it possible that the prime minister knows well all these and that is why he was so angered with the latest Israeli aggression on Gaza Strip bordering genocide feeling that as a co-chairman of the project he was betrayed? If so, since he did not sign any document and formally undertaken such a responsibility why not the prime minister just declare that he has given up the duty of co-chairman of the project?

To what extent, on the other hand, the current Ergenekon case in Turkey is related with the Wider Middle East Project? Or, is the Ergenekon a criminal case, a revanchist move of the AKP or part of a wider campaign of killing a nationalist, Kemalist, secular political opposition in Turkey obstructing advance of political Islam?