KIFAYETSIZ MUHTERISLER

Bu makaleyi Ingilizce yazacaktim, sonra dedim andavallilar anlamaz, ingilizce fukarasi bir yigin aydin gecinenlere bir kac firin ekmek fazla gelir. Soner Yalcin mesela, hani en son Cumhur secimlerinde Perincek veya Karamollaoglu'na oyunu verecegini ilan eden zat-i muhterem.

Hemen atlamis Mesutcuguma. Kazaninca Alman yenilince god-damn multeci oluyorum deyince bizim mumla aydinlanmislarin da eziklik ve muslumanlik duygulari kubarmis hemen. Megerse Alimanya'nin Maymun kafesi dedikleri varoslarin stadyumunda yetismis, Shalke'ye transfer olurken Turk veya Musluman diye hor gorulerek zar zor siyrilmis Mesutcugumun hikayesini yazmis, bir de acindira acindira yazmis ki degme gitsin, zannedersin acilarin cocugu; haftada ucyuzbin sterlinge top oynuyor tatulu frikik oncesi duasini eksik etmeyen dini butun(!) kucucuk zavallicik Mesutcuk.

Ana tema hep ayni; hor gorulen asagilanan musluman yavrusu, hakketse de cefa cektirilen ezilen halklarin cocugu. Vay babo,  bu ne guzel bir ufurukten teyyare bir kiliftir ki, ne yaparsan yap magdur oldugun dusunuldugunden sittin sene herseyden siyirmaya imtiyazin var. Sen mecbur olmadigin halde sirf ayni kumastan hissetigin icin ve sonuna kadar destekledigin icin fasizmin ve seriatin agababasiyla yana yana durmak firsatina ayaklarin popona vurarak gitmeni aksi halde nasil izah edersin ?  Milletin mina koyana devletin bankasini, parasini, kredisini imkanlarini peskes ceken, kendini tenkit edenleri polis ve savci zoruyla inim inim inleten, hapislere atan, orada olmelerine seyirci kalan bir tiranla, bir megolamanla ayni karede siritarak poz vermek hangi medeniyet, hangi kultur, hangi  millete mensup olma anlayisiyla izah edilir ?

Ben soyleyim hayvanlar alemi haricinde birak Almanya'yi hic bir ulke bu kadar rezil bir gosteriye susmak zorunda degildir. Turkiye'de solcular on yillardir fasist ve sovenist iktidarlarin kurbani olurken, benim tesetturlu bacima haksizlik yapiliyor nidalariyla magduriyet oynama devirleri gecti, hem bu duzeni yereceksin hem de  bu duzenin mimarina biat etmeye gidene magdurluk edebiyati uzerinden hak iktisab ettireceksin. Yok oyle yagma, ya kafan calismiyor ya da Kilicdaroglu gibi neredeyse Fransa bu kupanin kaybedenidir diyecek kadar olan bitenden bi-haber kifayetsiz muhteris gibi yenilmeye doymuyorsun. Ama bu da izah edilebilir(!); neticede Temel Karamollagoglu'na oyumu verebilirim diyebilecek kadar zihni muhtesem(!) birisin dostum.

Alman, Turk veya Amerika'li olmanin benim gozumde muthis bir degeri yok, saygim var o baska ancak, insanin once insanlik degerlerine saygili olmasini beklerim. Insanin once insan olmasidir onemli olan. Bir milletin mensubu olmanin en gurur verici yani hasbelkader orada dogmuslugun mudur ? yoksa o milletin ortak insanlik degerlerine verdigi saygi ve cogunlukcu katilim, dini yonetime sokmayan idare tarzi midir ?  Once insan olunacak. Once kafan basacak, hic bir kitabin gokten inemeyecegini bilecek kadar kafan basacak. Herkesin herkesi kiritik edebilme, ozgurce fikrini soyleyebilme yetisine hosgorulu olacaksin. Sorgulayabileceksin. Biat etmeyecek, dogrulari maskelemek icin mazeretler uydurmayacaksin, vesaire vesaire. Ama bilirim bunlar bir kulaktan girer otekinden ziit eren koy cikar gider.

23 Temmuz Erzurum kongresi, Lozan'in yildonumu, Ataturk ve silah arkadaslari ozgurluk icin iste efendim soyle yaptilar, emperyalistleri masada da yendiler, dun bakiyorum bunlari ballandira ballandira  anlatiyor kifayetsiz muhterisler. Basta Kilicdaroglu. A benim civanim aglanacak haline bir bakiver. Kimin umurunda, Millet Meclisin'de bir bir maddeler o kadar rahat geciyor ki, zaten de ehemmiyeti yok. Sen bu duruma bir gun bile tahammul etmeden savasmak  zorundayken nasil Ataturk'u konusabilirsin ? Hic mi utanma duygun yok. Nasil sokakta yuruken, seriatcilarin yesil sancagindan medet umar bir duruma gelmissin. Yazik sana. Hala plan program yapacagiz derken hic mi utanmiyorsun ? 16 yildir ne bok yedin ? 50 yildir ne bok yedin  ? Ben soyleyim, Ekmeleddin diyen birinin birak hala orada oturmasi, Ataturk'u agzina dahi almasi kabul edilemez. Buna musaade edilemez. Gucsuz ve afaki konumlardan mucadele yurutulemez, mucadele ugrasa girmeden asla kazanilamaz.

Bu milletin kronik bir sorunu var, ki bu hastaliga baska milletlerde cok ender rastlanir. Midesizlik. Kim ehil, kim bilgili, donanimli o kisi itibar gormez, kim laf ebesi, kim yere bakan yurek yakan, kim ufurukten teyyare, kim sifirin adami o bas taci edilir. Bu en kucugunden  en buyugune, spor klubunden, sivil toplum orgutune, politik partilere kadar giden acaip bir midesizlik durumudur. Kamyoncu kendini sollayan arabalara gicik olur. Iki seridi de kaplar, gecirmez. Kifayetsiz muhteris politikaci da becekrikli, entellektuel, donanimlilari parti disina iter. Bu kronik tavir degismedigi surece, tek adam biatcilarina yenilmeye mahkumuz.

Erdogan - Trump - Secularism.

The ruling in Turkey is very close to being a rogue state. Turkey should be proud to be the leader of the world only when it comes to the number of jailed journalists. You are considered guilty unless proven innocent in Turkey. Many things operate in reverse order in Turkey. The majority of Turkish people is still voting for the Islamist government of Erdogan. Perhaps, there is no true secularism in the US, and perhaps it is not in the norm that would affect the daily life of its citizens and no-one really bothers if that is so to that end but Turkey is not even on the same comparison scale. Turkey is probably the fastest down-sloping country in the world where the pressure of religion is being felt at every social institution, the most dramatic being in the judicial system. When the rape cases involving minors slip through with minimal sentencing due to religious practices, when liberal minded journalists were attacked brutally, the instigators get minimal jail term if not none at all, all that is left from  a once pseudo-secular republic is a dream of the past. What we discuss in the US is the insurance premiums and how it will be decided among pro-choice and pro-abortion proponents and thats the most it comes down to when the religion is affecting politics. 

It is not to say that the US is advanced enough having founded on Jeffersonian principles more than two hundred years ago, to consider a self declared atheist to be a presidential candidate. The trend is there but it is still too far for the US to be anywhere close to that mind set. But comparing US with Turkey for how the religion is affecting the social life of its citizens is like correlating the number of rats living in NY's underground with the number of stars in the universe. 

Turkey is founded by Ataturk, a genius on many fronts and a combination of Washington and Jefferson in one body and mind. He was able to stop the destruction of Islam on his millet, and tried to put the Turkish nation in a western minded secular mold. It did succeed as much as the vertical revolutions go by in the history of social reforms and revolutions. It is an incredible accomplishment by all accounts particularly when the perspective of the dire situation of Europe’s ”sick man” is considered back in 1920s. The literacy rate was in thousandths in females, in ten thousands in medical personnel, yet alone finding an able body to put as a minister was like finding a needle in the hay stack. The political history of Turkey is too big to fit into a few sentences here and we digressed enough from our main point of discussion which is Turkey, secularism and the US, and maybe Trump. 

The last of these,  Trump is a shrewd business-man who likes to see the world thru his profit-hungry window and believes in power to dictate, and hence he is not a bit interested in the ideology.  He thinks implicitly all that is secular and all that is religious already omni-present and just mere words as best could be used as tools to maximize ever present profits. He is neither religious nor secular, he is too simple to think about the true meanings of these words.  He really does not care even to know or say anything ideologically profound. There is also a supporting pop-culture to this, somewhere between complete ignorance and cockiness, but also a reaction to the other side’s lack of competence. Dynasties in modern democracies should be oxymorons but yet they were not; Bushes and Clintons were just as real as the axe of Jack in the middle ages. And the resentment to this was ever more present in the last election cycle. 

However, we can not draw parallels between Trump and the Turkish politics. Turkish people has a lot of growing up to do and it may not just be possible to make that leap unless the religion is openly discussed and attacked by a determined leader. The reality is that the sleep-walking society is too large to make that leap in short amount of time to win the majority in politics, however, it is not completely lost either. For any lack of hope,  there is at least half of the country that would never vote for Erdogan. The main opposition party is proven to be ineffective and submissive to the massacre of democratic institutions in Turkey. They could not lead the people’s resentment into the street and due to this lack of challenge, the police and prosecution force became the foot soldiers of Erdogan’s government. Individual attempts by journalists and political opponents were swiftly pressed and punished. This is the era of witch hunting and closely resembles the times of Sultan Abdulhamit where there were secret police behind every public figure. 

Erdogan’s ideal is to topple Ataturk’s so-called secular Republic. The  last coup attempt was conveniently put into work to that purpose, sweeping any political opposition with a thick brush of state terrorism and treason. The inevitable outcome of this down-sloping is fast approaching, and with lira losing its value at a rate faster than the descent of Saddam’s statue, I am afraid the end result is still unpredictable, and undoubtedly it will have huge consequences for the Middle East and the general world affairs and politics.