THE WORLD’S BIGGEST TERROR GANG!
by Burak Bekdil
Hurriyet Daily News
Jan 25 2012
Turkey
Turkish justice, notoriously capable of uncovering terror gangs from
published and unpublished books, cartoons, anti-government slogans,
posters, headwear, eggs, badges and every other trivial item, has
been unable to uncover the gang that killed Hrant Dink. That is just
normal. The Turkish justice could not have arrested all members of
the gang because Turkish prisons are not big enough to house millions
of inmates.
Upon the murder of Mr. Dink, I wrote in this column:
“[Who killed Hrant Dink?] A teenager, according to the full forensic
report; the same teenager, according to his own testimony. ‘The
murderer state,’ according to left-wing fanatics. Mr. Dink himself
betrayed the lands where ‘he was fed,’ according to right-wing
fanatics. The secularist state establishment, according to the
Islamists. The Islamist government, according to secularists. The
‘deep state,’ according to deep state-connoisseurs.
Foreign secret services, according to conspiracy-connoisseurs […] The
blood-thirsty Turks, the descendants of genocide-makers, according to
the Turk-hating Armenians. The Armenians, according to Armenian-hating
Turks. Xenophobic Turks, according to the separatist Kurds. Separatist
Kurds, according to xenophobic Turks. Article 301 and the jurists who
convicted Mr. Dink of insulting Turkishness, according to the liberals.
“Ogun Samast who pulled the trigger is no different than his mentor who
had bombed a McDonald’s restaurant because the eatery was ‘a symbol
of American imperialism’… or the teenager who killed a Catholic
priest because the man was ‘an enemy of Islam.’ Or even anyone who
belonged to the crowd of a few thousand people who wanted to lynch
a handful of youths because they protested prison conditions.
Mr. Samast is only a daring/losing example in a bunch of nearly 4
million Turkish young men between the ages of 15 and 19 whose cultural
myths are no richer than the book ‘Those Crazy Turks’ and the film
‘Valley of the Wolves.’
“Turkey, in the last few decades, has ‘produced’ more young people
than it could afford to healthily take care of, i.e., with education,
jobs, social security, etc. Inevitably, an alarmingly large part of
these young men and women has “gone astray.” Some have joined the
outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK; some have joined this or
that of the mushrooming sects of Islam, becoming, thus, the soldiers of
Islam; some have gone to fight the ‘infidels’ in lands as far away as
Pakistan and Afghanistan, in Iraq or Chechnya; some have become petty
criminals and, some, as in the case of Mr. Samast, have preferred to
‘defend the honor of Turkishness.’
“In fact, they are the same thing although they ostensibly represent
opposite or different political doctrines – it is only a matter of
where and how they grow up. The PKK man who kills in the name of
‘independent Kurdistan’ is the same man who kills a priest or a judge
in the name of ‘Islam,’ or the man who killed Mr. Dink in the name
of ‘Turkishness;’ He is the same man who goes to the local Internet
cafe for child porn, violent computer games or to read the daily
brainwashing political material from his choice of radical website,”
(“Who killed Hrant Dink,” the Daily News, Jan. 23, 2007).
As tens of thousands marched last week to defend Mr. Dink’s honor
in a peaceful march, after a court verdict ruled out “organized
crime/terror” in this murder case, daily Hurriyet columnist Ahmet
Hakan commented on the social media side of the “Dink affair.” A
frustrated Mr. Hakan concluded that a) Other [Mr.] Samasts are among
us, b) The court verdict is in no way surprising, and c) Life for an
Armenian in Turkey is really very risky.
That is the heart of the matter. It is a big terror gang. Too big to
contain, control or jail… In vain, I am hoping I shall not have to
reprint in 2017 excerpts from my 2007 article.
From: Baghdasarian