Politics and Law - Ergenekon or "Authentic Modern Exodus" - History, politics and violations to the separation of Powers

Postal stamps printed in the 1930s.

Here in this blog I've seen the very important need to reexamin the cases that Turkey's political and judicial institutes as well as the public been through in the last decade, such as those related the armed forces, terrorist organizations, abuse / misuse of power etc. 

These cases like Ergenekon is very much impossible to understand looking within a contemporary framework of law. Complicated penal procedures with impossible to comprehend evidences and jailing of the security and armed forces officials without just information to the public of the reason, kind of a propagation to the public of the end of the primacy of law in Turkey as well as giving an opinion like from now on you live in an occupied land: as the general staff etc. were put in the prison.

In this essay I want to first define what was Ergenekon and how a folkloric myth was somehow named for a case aiming to trial a group of people of planning a military coup so committing a crime against the State as a terrorist act.

Ergenekon apart from its so-called Turkic origins is actually has one important significance as a folkloric or national myth that is the blacksmith which I have also observed in the Indo-European tribes as well as symbolizing the era of the human history giving shape to the iron and using it for various needs, which also dates back to the ancient era in different civilizations.

The folkloric narrative, Ergenekon as a national tale in one sense, is a story of finding a way, or escape in different versions it is the escape from the Chinese imperialism or poverty etc. 

There is a similarity we see between the Moses exiting from the Egypt in the Book of Exodus which is symbolising the tyranny towards his people and there is an important part of which he is singing while exiting which may be interpreted as finding his/her own voice for it is a person or nation while being on the road, also.

Such tales like Ergenekon is actually symbolizing, in the modern age, also with the national movements, of exiting the poverty or being underdeveloped through not as the symbol indicates by shaping the iron but moreover by the industry, or industrialization. 

But such is also requires some other qualifications for the nations as industrialization is a difficult thing and the promotion for the exercise of body for a better physical strength by the State is one of the facet of it, which is lately criticised as being a militaristic culture jeopardizing the right and freedom of the individual.

Turkey was so much ignorant as a whole that during that time of the Ergenekon cases: Russia (as being the weakest of the Indo-Europeans) and Tatars (As being the least likened of the Turkics in Turkey) has also been stigmatized for being related to the Ergenekonism (Ergenekonculuk) semantically meaning unable to be part of a modern democratic culture but apt to remain in a primitif state of humanity being so close to the animosity towards different thoughts and cultures so being close to the military. 

As being a Roumelian, Crimean Tatar and a White Russian, I think of there are rights and freedoms of mine violated during that period of Turkey, but whatever.

In Turkey, anti-democratic sentiments, anomosity towards different cultures and nations, praising of the traits belonging to the primitif state of human especially for the relation between the men and the women was really the case when I was young I remember well. Aggression and violence was an important cult either in the right or the left politics. 

But these were important but different subjects had to be discussed apart from the violation to the separation of powers.

A working hypothesis is being developed concerning the major question of anti-Semitism in modern Europe and the gradation of the phenomenon from the most virulent forms in Central and Eastern Europe to its minimal expression South-eastern Europe (Serbia, Bulgaria and Greece). A first impression which requires much research verification, is that the ideological basis of organized state and para-state anti-Semitism rests on prototypes provided by societies with strongly entrenched ancient régimes. Although the Nazi extermination program required the efficiency of a modern totalitarian state, the source from which Nazism, Fascism, the Iron Guard, the Utasha, and the Arrow Cross drew their inspiration was the principle of every individual being predestined to a particular station in life --all alien to the Enlightenement and liberal middle-class thinking.
Alex Kitroeff, Athens:1995 

Also in the book of the William Hale and Ergün Özbudun "Islamism, Democracy and Liberalism in Turkey: The Case of the AKP": it is debated that (also with the contributions of Gareth Jenkins) that the Ergenekon case period was somewhat related to the period in the 1990s termed as the "Dirty War in the East" (or Doksanlar, in Turkish).

Whatever it was, those who were jailed in my opinion have abused the values of the Turkish Republic and Mustafa Kemal Atatürk so much that even it was told among the public "They're jailing who are in favor of Atatürk". For a certain part of the Turkish intellectuals it was very well known that what was going on had also a "political" aspect and those in power were trying to eliminate their political adversaries those who don't share the same thoughts and avoid making compromise.

But such a contention and clash should NEVER AND EVER have instrumentalised the fundamental values of the Turkish Republic, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Democracy, Primacy of the Law, The Rule of Law, Independence of the Judges, Independence of the Courts.