The Frontal Battle against Islamism starts now in Turkey

As the election results are being commented in various ways, the great majority of the Turks are about to draw the conclusion that the results were finally good for several reasons. Despite false appearances and regardless of numerous ridiculous and hypocritical comments made by European observers and analysts, the results bring Turkey farther from Europe, and this is what the majority of Turkey’s secular democrats wanted, either they voted for the three main opposition parties (CHP, MHP, DP) or they cast their vote in favour of Erdogan’s AKP.

With the military establishment totally managing the situation at the state level, Turks come to realize now that Secularism, Democracy and Enlightenment, along with all the Principles promulgated by Kemal Ataturk, cannot be defended at the state level only; they have to be – and this is the lesson ensuing from yesterday’s elections – wholeheartedly supported at the level of the Turkish Society,

Turkey’s Secular Democrats must understand that they cannot afford to express their thunderous support for democracy, freedom, progress, enlightenment, secularism and laicism only in extreme cases like the famous May and June manifestations; expressing support for fundamental ideals and principles must be the case of daily life, a ceaseless effort to assert, re-assert, and over-re-assert what has to be reminded and propagated every day, every moment.

When fundamental ideals and principles become articles on a piece of paper, even if the paper is that of a Constitution, they lose their importance. When the rejection of the Islamic Barbarism remains just a matter of common thought and discussion shared among friends and colleagues at the workplace, in the salon of your apartment or in a restaurant, the chances of them being publicly heard and taken into consideration are slim.

A Vacuum to cover

Every society contains an eventual empty space; this is a vacuum caused by laxity, lenience, and nonchalance. When you do not ceaselessly state, affirm, impose and enforce an ideal shared by many, an empty space is created at the level of the society, and the ideological principle is not marked and stressed at the level of the daily life as much as it should. That empty space can become a very perilous environment out of which the unthinkably worst can emanate. Suffice it that you read Winston Churchill’s narrative (in his Memoirs) about Hitler’s rise in Germany, and you find the Vacuum theory – and the ensued disastrous reality in the 1930s Mitteleuropa.

What characterized Turkey in the early and mid 90s was precisely this Vacuum; an ideologically empty space had been gradually created within the Turkish society by which the great ideals of Secularism, Freedom, Democracy and Enlightenment were widely shared but dormant. Necmettin Erbakan had understood that, gathering few marginal votes of traditional and religious people of remote provinces, and adding to them the negative vote of those who had been exacerbated by the scandals of the conservative parties and the (then identified for the first time) anti-Turkish policies of the West, he could reach a significant percentage in the elections, which due to Turkey’s political multi-division would catapult him to the position of Prime Minister. He became Turkey’s Premier with as many voters as today’s main opposition’s CHP (People’s Republican Party), i.e. around 21%.

The Islamist danger is real and two-fold

What many Turks have not realized thus far is that the existing menace of Turkey’s islamization, which is real, is two-fold. The first aspect is Erdogan’s hidden agenda, something many Turks have clearly felt, sensed and experienced.

The second feature of the threat is external, and hinges on Western involvement, namely political – diplomatic machinations and maneuvering targeting at Turkey’s disaster through the bias of an islamization process. When calling ‘Western’ this involvement, we do not imply an overall Western interest in this regard. Quite contrarily, there are in the West moral and mentally healthy groups of power that do not resort to conspiracies like this; it is up to Turkey’s secular and democratic elites and people to reach out to them. By ‘Western involvement’ and anti-Turkish maneuvering targeting at Turkey’s annihilation, we mean the perfidious and malicious policies of an Apostate French Free Masonic Lodge that controls sizeable part of the financial and policy making power in Europe (France, Germany, Austria and Spain) and America (involving Evangelical bogus-Christianity and leading figures of the Democrat Party).

Islamic danger not properly tackled thus far

The Battle against Islamism must be first conceived, then planned, and last meticulously executed.

It is essential to keep in mind that - thus far - reactions against the aforementioned twofold existential Menace have not been coordinated, have not been identified as really conscious, and have not touched across-the-board issues.

Even worse, Erdogan and his Islamist cannibals have been met with per point reactions, as if they are normal and not contaminated members of the Turkish political life. This is not affordable anymore.

Either the political parties, mainly CHP, or the military dealt with Erdogan every time an important issue arose. Doing so, they failed to gain in terms of impressions, and in addition they damaged their chances of fast eradicating the Erdogan pestilence, as they did not demonstrate that the important issue is not this or that topic but the simple fact that Erdogan and his gang of thugs just exist.

Doing so, the secular, democratic political parties and the military facilitated also the external promoters of Turkey’s destruction (the aforementioned ‘second aspect’), who through numerous mass media had the time and the calm to depict the Islamist premier of Turkey as possibly democratic, pro-Western, tolerant, ‘charismatic’, and ‘moderate’, while portraying Turkey’s true democrats as old-fashioned, military interventionists, nationalists, and anti-European.

Even worse, the secular, democratic political parties and the military did not shape a policy against these external promoters of Turkey’s destruction, as if these criminal enemies of Turkey could stay forever at the shelter of anonymity, tolerance and oblivion.

Last but not least, the secular, democratic political parties and the military did not have the people actively involved in their confrontation with Erdogan, except when very recently the threat reached the level of Turkey’s presidency with the disreputable attempt of Abdullah Gul, the lewd and coarse foreign minister, to have his Hayrunisa woman accepted as Turkey’s First Lady despite her infamous Islamic headscarf.

What Battle we are talking about

The correct conception of a battle guarantees the possibility of a positive outcome. Erdogan and his barbaric Islamists must be conceived precisely as the Erdogan’s duplicitous Western supporters depict them: religious. The word itself is enough to make dozens of millions of people frightened in Turkey. Of course, Erdogan’s Western supporters ‘transfer’ the religious identity from Erdogan, his thugs, and their party’s core followers (who hardly total half of his voters) to the entire mass of the AKP voters, but all people in Turkey know that this is simply not true.

Viewing the Battle against Islamism as two-fold and across-the-board imposes above all coordination among the various opposition elements, namely the secular political elite, the secular economic elite, the secular academic elite, the secular administrative elite, and the military.

In reality, nothing has been lost, except we make ours the Erdogan’s duplicitous Western supporters’ fallacious propaganda. But at the same time, we must vow that nothing in the future will be the same as before July 22nd 2007.

Sectors should be ascribed to every participant in this Battle, and every one of them must mainly focus on the activism needed and planned within task sector, with coordination across-the-board mobilizing masses throughout the country. The Battle has to be political, ideological, intellectual, theological-religious, and preponderantly social.

Further Islamization Steps Not Permissible for Erdogan

Focal argument in the Battle against Islamism has to be the accurate ‘reading’ of the elections’ result; as more than a third of Erdogan’s voters are of secular democratic background and conviction, the re-elected prime minister has no backing for even a single step towards advanced Islamization. Circumstantial parliamentary majority is not enough for Erdogan to pass laws and to pursue policies of advanced Islamization.

The fight against the Islamic Barbary that prevails in so many countries allover the world was engaged in Turkey long ago by Kemal Ataturk; there was no referendum involved when he decided to abolish the Arabic Ottoman scripture, and introduce Latin writing for Turkish. Today’s Secular Democratic Turks must be confident in themselves and in the real sense of democracy. Democracy does not mean implementation of what an elected majority of idiotic and brain-washed voters may desire, want, plan or wish.

Principles come first; if a circumstantial parliamentary majority promotes policies and votes laws that are against the Democratic Principles, these laws are not Laws, and this majority is not a democratic majority. Back in 1933, Hitler was re-elected in the German Parliament. His majority was an anti-democratic circumstantial preponderance, and the reason it stayed in power – with the disastrous results we all know – is precisely the fact that Hitler was not met with a resolute rejection from the part of the Reichstag’s democratic minority. The tragic event must not be repeated in Turkey.

All the paragons of the Secular Democratic Elite and all the democratic citizens of Turkey – who still consist in the country’s outright majority – must understand that Turkey entered a long period of frontal social and political Battle, and they must therefore be fully engaged. All other concerns become second to this.

A Master Plan against Erdogan

Turkey’s secular political elite, secular economic elite, secular academic elite, secular administrative elite, and the military must set up a representative Committee – eventually named All Turks for Democracy – to coordinate the Battle, by carving out the role of each contributing part, advising per point coordination among two or more participants, targeting the ultimate demise of Erdogan, and shaping a Master Plan that would be radical and precipitating enough to turn Erdogan from partly acceptable prime minister to mere leader of opposition to the Master Plan. What this Master Plan should be we will analytically describe in the next articles.

Note

Leader of the main opposition party (CHP), Prof. Deniz Baykal is expected to take major decisions.