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    Today's Zaman, Turkey
    Jan 22 2011

    There's this Armenian


    This is the title of journalist Adem Yavus Arslan's recent book on
    Armenian journalist Hrant Dink's assassination. The full title is "Bi
    Ermeni Var: Hrant Dink Operasyonu'nun Şifreleri" (There's This
    Armenian: The Codes of the Dink Operation).

    The book tries to show through evidence that the Dink assassination in
    2007 was part of a larger plan by the Turkish gendarmerie and part of
    a larger Ergenekon conspiracy to weaken and, if possible, topple the
    Justice and Development Party (AK Party) government. The book argues
    that Dink, the monstrous murder of three Christian missionaries in
    Malatya and the murder of a Christian priest in Trabzon were all
    orchestrated by the same culprits.

    Arslan underlines the Dink murder was part of a larger plan to drive
    Turkey away from the European Union. As you may remember, some neocon
    writers had been falsely trying to label AK Party politicians
    "Islamo-fascists" and with this assassination and the murder of
    Christians, Ergenekon wanted to "prove" to the West that all these
    murderers and assassinations were encouraged by the AK Party. Thus,
    the West's encouragement of proper democracy in Turkey was fatal. "One
    vote, one time" is the motto. When these so-called Islamo-fascists
    come to power, they will never go and in order to remain in power they
    will start butchering their "other(s)." The bureaucratic oligarchy
    dreamed that once the anchor of Western democratization had safely
    been removed from Turkey, they would easily be able to do away with
    the AK Party through all sorts of psychological operations. They are
    so skilful that in order to prepare for the Feb. 28 coup, they made
    the nation believe that a prostitute was a devout practicing Muslim
    who was misled and abused by two notorious, so-called religious
    leaders. It is only very recently that the nation learned that the
    piety of these two men was less than we had been led to believe.

    Arslan's book also asserts that Dink's murder was a way to stir up
    ultranationalist sentiment, paving the way for the AK Party's votes to
    diminish and nationalist parties to gain power. The other target was
    the Gülen movement, which is known for its inter-faith dialogue.
    Sheikh Haydar Baş's newspapers kept claiming that the movement was
    helping Christian missionaries in Turkey and that there were 18,000
    house-churches in Turkey. In Islamist Necmettin Erbakan's newspaper,
    Milli Gazete, Mehmet Şevket Eygi claimed that a religious leader
    (implying Fethullah Gülen) had made a secret agreement with the
    Vatican to sell out Turkey. You may believe that all these things are
    simply coincidental, but I do not. And, as Arslan's book hints, every
    single minute detail was carefully planned by the officials of the
    Turkish state. The Dink assassination was so well organized that the
    gendarmerie was able to cheat the police by employing double agents.
    It is as if we are talking about two different enemy forces belonging
    to two different states. What bothers me is that the AK Party has not
    helped enough in solving the Dink case, for reasons unknown to me. I
    wonder if in their subconscious they are confusing the number 2007
    with 1915.

    I hope the book is translated into English as soon as possible.

    http://www.todayszaman.com/columnist-233193-theres-this-armenian.html




    From: A. Papazian
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