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Gülenists and Turkish Government wage
fraudulent war on the KCK: their real target is the
BDP
29.11.2011
By Dr. Aland Mizell - ekurd.net
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November 29, 2011
In his latest speech broadcast on the Herkul.org
website, Fethullah Gülen commented on his grief over
the deaths of the security members during the PKK
attacks in the country‘s Southeast region. He was
disappointed that “the Turkish military failed to
kill a group of bandits in the mountains over the
last 30 years,” said Gülen. In his speech Gülen also
spoke of measures that should be taken to help
resolve the Kurdish problems including the opening
up of five new dormitories in the city of Van and
sending imams into all the Kurdish provinces to
indoctrinate Kurds to accept his version of Islam.
Teachers are to assimilate the Kurdish children. “If
we only could have sent to that region Imams who
teach Islam to them, if these measures were taken
before, we would not have any Kurdish problem, “
Gülen claimed.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands
in moments |
Muhammed Fethullah Gülen is a Turkish preacher,
author, educator, and Sufi Muslim scholar living in
self-imposed exile in Pennsylvania (USA). He is the
founder and leader of the Gülen movement. |
of
comfort, but where he stands at the times of
challenge and controversy, according to Martin
Luther King. The question for Mr. Gülen is where did
you stand during three decades of Kurdish suffering?
In his seminal writings on politics and language,
George Orwell noted, “Political language is designed
to make lies sound truthful and murder respectful”.
Today the world is being swayed by Gülenists;
consequently, the global community is silenced and
not sharing its opinion on the AKP party‘s
suppression of the Kurdish people.
Fethullah Gülen and his followers are claiming that
he sees a war on the PKK as an option of last
resort. The Turkish government has taken him at his
word. In reality they had already decided on this
last option. Thus, the Orwellian analysis of lies
sounding truthful and murder respectful may be seen
as the AKP couches its real intent in Gülen’s “last
option” rhetoric.
Gülen’s solution is the “you are either for us or
against us” mentality. In Gülen’s approach to solve
Kurdish issues, “the good Kurds “are always
associated with their cadre and the bad Kurds are
not one of them.” The ones who are different from
them become the enemy to be feared and hated like
the BDP. Ultimately the enemy has to be killed and
destroyed, so that people can be safe and peace will
come to Turkey. Gülen is supposed to be a champion
of love, tolerance, peace and bridge-building. How
can a champion of peace and tolerance speak a
language of hate, rage, and killing? How can a
religion leader possibly make such political
statements? Champions of morality or even civilized
human beings do not intentionally and rationally
kill other human beings.
Today, the Turkish government and Gülenists are
using the Kurdish Communities Union (KCK) as a
propaganda tool, primarily to get rid of the BDP
party and its members. One the most effective and
most critical elements of the fighting is the
ability to dehumanize the KCK, the PKK, and the BDP
and its members: that is, to perceive other human
beings as less than human. Dehumanization has been
the necessary and potent tool used in every
enslavement or genocide.
Even as a standard-bearer for justice, America has
lost its credibility around the world because of its
double standard in its foreign policy. America will
not criticize Turkey for its treatment of its
citizens, but America will criticize Syria, despite
there being no real difference between how that
government treats its people and Turkey’s treatment.
Gülenists’ special interests have driven ties so
powerful that their lobbyists in Washington have
enabled legislators to embrace policies that will
have a long-term cost and will put American national
prestige at risk. America wants to use Turkey to
further its political agenda, especially in Syria.
The US wants to use Turkey and Gülenists as an
example for the Arab world of a moderate Islamic
system that has ties with the West and NATO.
Gülenists see this intent,www.ekurd.net
and see how the US wants to take advantage of Turkey
against Iran and Syria. Gülenists want to take
advantage and exploit America’s international
relations by asking America to turn a blind eye on
mass Kurdish arrests in Turkey and they want America
to help them destroy the PKK before the US troops
get out of Iraq.
Gülen and his followers are losing the ability to
hear the heartbeats of the Kurds. Many international
negotiations break down because they are built on
mutual accusations instead of mutual confessions.
Terrorism is the term used by the powerful
governments when their enemy employs means that
threaten the dominance of these governments in war.
The basis of a democratic state is liberty and,
where laws end, tyranny begins. Today Kurds are
under the tyranny of the Turkish government. How is
it possible that Western academicians and
politicians remain ignorant and cannot understand
that Gülenists have nothing to do with peace,
tolerance and peace-building, but rather divide the
society between them and us as well as create hate
and rage among the people?
The current war on the KCK is an AKP-planned and,
socially and politically, a Gülenist-approved
maneuver to achieve total power in Turkey. Because
the Democratic Society Congress (BDP) is the main
obstacle for Gülenists in Turkey, because they are
the only party that is asking for Turkey to face
justice, and because they are the only party that
represents the Kurdish people, Gülenists have
targeted the BDP. Gülenists created Ergenekon to get
rid of military rule, and now they are creating the
KCK and trying to link the KCK to a terrorist
organization, implicating the BDP in order to get
rid of the BDP party.
Gülenists do not accept the BDP even though it is
democratically elected by the millions of Kurdish
people and has 36 parliamentarians (MPs). Gülenists
and Turkey’s Prime Minister think BDP members are
supporting terrorism. They would like to get rid of
the BDP by linking it to the KCK. Now the Gülenists
are guilty of charging the KCK with guilt by
association in that the Gülenists have linked the
KCK to the PKK because of the PKK being considered
terrorists. They are currently putting thousands of
Kurdish political leaders in jail, and they will
continue to incarcerate them until they get rid of
all the BDP party. Then they will create a Kurdish
party that will agree with them, not necessarily
representing the Kurdish interests but representing
Gülen’s ideas – such as Kemal Burkay, the Kurdish
writer and poet who returned from a three decade
long exile in Sweden that began shortly after the
military’s coup d’état in 1980. His denouncement of
the PKK and call for the Kurdish people to take
advantage of the “Kurdish opening” take him from
mainstream Kurdish interests to the current
administration’s bidding. That is Gülen’s solution
to solve Kurdish problems.
Media is the chief tool in selling Gülen’s and the
Turkish government’s war policy on the Kurds in
Turkey. Today’s Zaman serves the interests of the
AKP government and Gülen’s empire – which are
closely interlinked – and it consequently frames its
reporting and analysis in a manner supportive of
establishing privilege but limiting debate and
discussion about the Kurdish plight.
The propaganda system allows the AKP leadership to
commit crimes without limit and without checks on
misbehavior or criminality; in fact, the ruling
party will appear regularly on TV to comment on
justice, love, peace, tolerance, alliance of
civilization, or bridge-building, all the while
characterizing themselves as savior of the world.
Human beings create enemies and so that it seems
that war and the creation of enemies are coded in
human genes. The main cause of making enemies is a
split between us versus them, between good versus
evil. The mindset of “We are the chosen ones; they
are not,” or “We are the best at everything with no
room for criticism” characterizes this split. The
current retort, “Guns do not kill people; people
kill people” needs the addendum, “And people kill
ideas.”
Verbal attack is the most lethal. Today Gülen and
his followers verbally attack Kurds who do not share
the same ideas with them by slandering the BDP and
Kurdish leaders, and by using propaganda to mobilize
the public against BDP party members. They are the
main obstacle to Kurds accepting Gülenists’ ideas.
It should come as no surprise if all the BDP party
members end up in jail, or if the new Constitution
is written without the participation of the BDP
party.
He who accepts evil without protesting against it is
really cooperating with it. Today the world should
protest the Turkish Islamic government’s
reprehensible actions against her citizens.
Dr. Aland Mizell is with the University of
Mindanao School of Social Science, President of the
MCI and a regular contributor to the Kurdish Media.
You may reach the author via email at:
aland_mizell2@hotmail.com
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