What's Happening in Turkey?
All of the Western media, having received their information from the same 20-30 top individuals, all of whom share the same point of view, paint a particular picture of Turkey.
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Turkey's Corruption Crisis: a Political Probe
Corruption cases have a devastating impact on political parties. Turkey was recently hit by a corruption probe that shook the country's government. On December 17, 2013, Turkish police detained over 50 people as part of an investigation into alleged corruption.
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The December 17, 2013 operation is nothing but a multi-dimensional attempt to substitute the gate-guard perspective for politics and to change the order by judicial jugglers in courts.
Rule of law has been one of the leading topics of discussion since the establishment of the Republic of Turkey. The founders of the secular republic which was built on the ruins of the Ottoman State, attempted to ground it in a hybrid model of politics and law, in every sense of the word.
The biggest trouble a social movement may have is the impression that it contains militia or cooperates with a secret organization.
What we need today is an intellectual effort to keep politics at the core of its agenda against the neo-tutelage center which simply was born out of a gate-guard perspective instead of discussing the law, legal files and the police.
Tutelage and the Judiciary
In the last decade, after the tutelage regime was forced to retreat, Turkey embarked on a new era. It was easier then to determine the existence of the military tutelage through the crude and tangible interventions of the military bureaucracy into politics.
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The AK Party and the Operation Against Political Legitimacy
Since the operational political engineering that the Gulen Movement has launched by leveraging its power within the bureaucracy corresponds to a developing new form of tutelary, it threatens democracy in Turkey.
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The December 17, 2013 process must succeed to transform the structure of the Gulen Movement into a civilian-religious movement for the sake of the religion, the movement and the country.
Democracy cannot flourish in Turkey if Gulen Movement's parallel structure is not dismantled.
We face a center before us that, rather than arresting the criminal, accumulates crimes until it decides to use them for its own politically motivated operation later, committing an ignominious crime itself.
There had also been numerous corruption investigations into municipalities governed both by the AK Party and other political parties. Why didnt those investigations attract as much attention as the Dec. 17 investigation?
