The everlasting state’s Bank Asya operation

I have repeatedly written in this column that the state would lawfully seize the bank belonging to the parallel organization, which was targeting the Republic of Turkey. (Parallel organization and community are terms used to refer to the Fethullah Gülen-led movement.)

Regular readers of this column know that everything I write comes to pass sooner rather than later. The parallel organization’s media outlets and commercial enterprises will also be seized as per the law in the same manner.

A real democratic state of law cannot allow the presence of banks, media outlets and firms belonging to criminal organizations. A decision from the Court of Appeals is not required to determine the existence of a criminal organization. The Red Book is the ultimate source. (The Red Book is a top-secret national security document.)

Would liberal and leftist writers line up behind Sedat Peker if his bank were seized although he freely roams the streets because the Court of Appeals has not upheld his conviction? Furthermore, the parallel criminal organization, far more than being a simple mafia organization, has the attribute of a terrorist organization akin to Al-Qaeda, which launched a direct attack on state security. The Fethullah Gülen-led gang is a national security issue.

There is no difference between Zaman-Samanyolu or Bugün-Kanaltürk and Al-Qaeda’s publication mouthpiece Inspire. People were imprisoned in the United Kingdom and Australia for just having a copy of the magazine on USB flash drives. The Kansas District Attorney had said anyone in possession of a copy of that magazine was on their suspect list and necessary action would be taken. Just like everything Western states did concerning Inspire is absolutely legitimate; everything the Turkish state does, and will do, is legitimate in the same manner.

The parallel organization’s media has lost the plot to the extent that -- based on instructions it has received from Fethullah Gülen -- it is saying that the state hasn’t seized the organization’s bank and has just deployed police there as a scare tactic, and that Bank Asya is still in the community’s hands. There is not an iota of intelligence left in them. Fethullah Gülen is trying to prevent his community from being dispersed via this discourse. It is actually the end of the road.

Legal restraints were overcome and the state seized the parallel bank in accordance with the law. The Gülen gang had siphoned funds from Bank Asya and left it drained. In any event, all criminal organizations in the world use banking for this dirty purpose. Pablo Escobar’s organization too had tried to take over U.S. finance companies for this purpose but the United States didn’t permit it. The American state seized 118 firms on the suspicion of them having links with Escobar. The United States was right about Escobar, and we are right about Gülen. Thousands of fake accounts were opened in the Gülen organization’s bank as well. Now they will be held to account for each one of these accounts.

Meanwhile, some people still exist who continue to support the criminal organization that has been declared a national threat. Let me make this clear first: The Turkish state’s Bank Asya operation is a step that will strengthen the economy. The state will clear the path for every businessman who has stood by the government against the parallel structure. Businessmen from the CHP (Republican People’s Party) and MHP (Nationalist Movement Party) are also this country’s children.

The parallel organization is the Turkish state’s only enemy. Everybody, including those who participated in Gezi, is our brother. It is criminal organizations that pose the greatest threat to the economy and investors. Hundreds of businessmen were forced to do business with Bank Asya between 2008 and 2013 via the threat posed by the parallel judiciary.

If there is to be any criticism of the AK Parti (Justice and Development Party), it should be for keeping silent in the face of this tyranny for five years. Criticism directed at the AK Parti by honorable writers like Nedim Şener is just and very legitimate. But personalities like Mustafa Akyol have brought about their own downfall by becoming trapped in the gang’s web. Akyol, you better not confuse me with others. Some of your friends call me in order to rescue you but you destroyed yourself.

From the very day I started writing this column, my issue has not been the AK Parti. My issue is the survival of the state of the Republic of Turkey. I fight for the everlasting state. Even when the AK Parti and the community had very good relations, I mentioned this criminal organization and ever since my second article have been calling it a threat to the Turkish state.

Back then some ministers would tell me I was exaggerating and that the preacher and community were beneficial to the state. Now they can’t stop apologizing. I have not had a bad word to say in this column about those writers who defended the Turkish state’s righteous fight against the parallel structure but were also fierce critics of the AK Parti. I have always defended that type of legitimate opposition.

The Turkish state has just one request to make of Aydın Doğan as well. To issue a warning to those of its employees who attack the state in the manner that the parallel organization does, or take whatever action is necessary if warnings don’t suffice. The Turkish state has no problem with Aydın Doğan at all. It will lend full support to any investment made by Doğan as long as he doesn’t cross this red line.

But during the latest incident, Emin Çapa, the buffoon disguised as a CNN manager, sided with the parallel structure. We will soon find out how he was convinced to do so but what Çapa is engaged in is a betrayal of his own state. Uğur Gürses, the felon in the failed Kentbank case, and who currently writes for Doğan Media had acted in the same manner.

I thought Ahmet Hakan Coşkun had come to his senses a bit and had stopped writing about him, but he has recently started meeting with those who have close ties to Ali Fuat Yılmazer. Coşkun, too, can’t extract himself from the parallel grip. He can’t even direct a single word of criticism against Nazlı Ilıcak, who even called his son a blind parallel supporter.

Nobody can call a matter of survival that rivals the Auspicious Incident in significance for the Turkish state, which has a tradition dating back hundreds of years, as the creation of the 14-year-old AK Parti. This is an operation of the everlasting state…  

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