Sex and the (Ergenekon) party

İhsan Yılmaz

It appears that some in and around the Republican People’s Party (CHP) habitually make use of sex cassettes to get rid of their opponents. In its golden age, our deep state and its civilian collaborators would prefer assassinations, playing safe. As it turns out, intrigues by sex videos do not always bring the intended results, and you may not be able to terminate a political opponent with them. But in the good old days, many thousands that the deep state did not like simply disappeared, and culprits -- who never tried to hide themselves -- were never caught.

Whatever you can say about Justice and Development Party (AK Party) rule in the country, you cannot say that they are having their opponents assassinated. Can anyone say with a clear conscience the same about our deep state? If the AK Party is politically manipulating the judicial system to have its innocent opponents tried in court, the party’s opponents should convince the public. It is obvious they have huge support not only in the Turkish media but in the Western media as well. But it is equally obvious that it is not the tremendous media support that the pro-Ergenekonians lack but convincing and credible arguments. They have never questioned the coups, assassinations, tortures and forced assimilation of minorities by the Kemalist establishment and the undemocratic practices of the state, but now suddenly have become worried that Turkey could become like Putin’s Russia. They lack and will always lack credibility.