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AKP And ISIL

13.09.2014 19:42

When we criticize the Justice and Development Party (AKP) on its approach to radical and violent Islamist groups, it claims that we are betraying the country and are traitors. It argues that the West is trying to have Turkey be accused of helping these groups and that when we criticize the AKP leaders, we are simply supplying ammunition for their cause.For its conspiratorial followers, this may be logical. But, if the West has already decided on this issue, our comments will not change this situation. Given the fact that they have declared that they have been wiretapping Turkish officials and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has accepted this, no one would need our armchair comments. Our criticism may only serve one thing: If there are some adventurist Envero-Islamist politicians and officials who think that Turkey is a great power and it can play dangerous games, they may possibly stop their adventurism.Remember that a Turkish Airlines (THY) officer was wiretapped talking to an adviser of Erdoğan

When we criticize the Justice and Development Party (AKP) on its approach to radical and violent Islamist groups, it claims that we are betraying the country and are traitors. It argues that the West is trying to have Turkey be accused of helping these groups and that when we criticize the AKP leaders, we are simply supplying ammunition for their cause.
For its conspiratorial followers, this may be logical. But, if the West has already decided on this issue, our comments will not change this situation. Given the fact that they have declared that they have been wiretapping Turkish officials and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has accepted this, no one would need our armchair comments. Our criticism may only serve one thing: If there are some adventurist Envero-Islamist politicians and officials who think that Turkey is a great power and it can play dangerous games, they may possibly stop their adventurism.
Remember that a Turkish Airlines (THY) officer was wiretapped talking to an adviser of Erdoğan and telling him that his conscience is not at peace since he does not know if with the things they are carrying Christians or Muslims are being killed. I am not sure if this is true or not, but if it is true, this is a huge problem for Turkey; no official or politician has the right to create trouble for Turkey by acting unlawfully. In this context, the AKP politicians' approach to the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), which now refers to itself as the Islamic State (IS), needs serious elaboration. Several pieces have appeared in the Western media on this issue and the Turkish public needs to know about this issue in detail, too.
Since ISIL has taken 46 Turkish citizens hostage, it is understandable that our politicians cannot speak of ISIL harshly. But they have a responsibility to explain why they trusted ISIL so much and thought that they would not touch the Turkish Consulate General in Mosul. It has become clear that everybody knew that ISIL was approaching and that the Turkish officials were warned about the danger -- and they were even offered help. Despite all these, Ahmet Davutoğlu made statements that the consulate was safe.
We have every right to be suspicious about the reason for this confidence. Is this connected to the claim that since ISIL got help from the Turkish official, it was considered to be friendly to the Turkish consulate? We have to be assured that this is just a ridiculous claim. But since media freedoms are very restricted in Turkey now, we can never have a free debate and it is very difficult to get the facts.
The vital question is this: Is there an ideological affinity between some radical and Islamist sections of the AKP and ISIL? I believe this question deserves serious deliberation. It is now stated that ISIL has more than 30,000 fighters and hundreds or even thousands of them from Turkey. How were these people recruited? By who? What are their motivations in joining ISIL? Why don't AKP voters press the AKP leaders to be more vocal against ISIL, to condemn the group as Fethullah Gülen did and declare that they are not Muslims, as US President Barack Obama did? It seems that Obama is more sensitive about the image of Islam than our leaders. Erdoğan still calls ISIL Muslims and tries to reason with them using Islamic terminology. What does Davutoğlu think about Boko Haram, Nusra, ISIL and so on? Are they just some angry and upset youngsters? Are they jihadis? Is what they are doing compatible with Islam.
I think these questions need very clear answers. Otherwise, Turkey will continue to be blamed and accused.

İHSAN YILMAZ (Cihan/Today's Zaman)



 
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