{"id":18114,"date":"2024-12-20T11:00:34","date_gmt":"2024-12-20T08:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/penna.cydialogue.org\/?p=18114"},"modified":"2024-12-20T11:42:39","modified_gmt":"2024-12-20T08:42:39","slug":"the-ali-kismir-case-and-are-we-a-tribe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/penna.cydialogue.org\/the-ali-kismir-case-and-are-we-a-tribe\/","title":{"rendered":"THE AL\u0130 K\u0130\u015eM\u0130R CASE AND ARE WE A TRIBE?"},"content":{"rendered":"
One of the most fundamental characteristics of modern democracies is transparency. In countries where democracy functions with its institutions and rules, people have the right to access information.<\/p>\n
When I say \u2018have\u2019, I mean they actually have this right. Otherwise, we also have the right to access information \u2018on paper\u2019. Moreover, the Constitution also says so. But when it comes to practice, the opposite is the case.<\/p>\n
Even the simplest demographic information is hidden, confidential, and there has never been transparency in this regard.<\/p>\n
Obviously, the \u2018chief of the tribe\u2019 did not deem it appropriate, no one knows how many people live on this half of the island, the real number of citizens and all the relevant details.<\/p>\n
What’s the point, right?<\/p>\n
We are governed like a \u2018tribe\u2019 anyway!<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ***<\/p>\n
\u00dcnal \u00dcstel travelled to Ankara a while ago, and it was announced that a \u00a0protocol was signed there.<\/p>\n
They said that schools, a theological high school, a complex of some sort, roads, infrastructure, etc. would be built.<\/p>\n
They gave numbers. They made a lot of speeches.<\/p>\n
Has anyone seen, or read that protocol?<\/p>\n
Who knows the details?<\/p>\n
The opposition didn’t see or read it, they don’t know anything about it.<\/p>\n
Journalists didn’t see or read it, they don’t know anything about it.<\/p>\n
Academics didn’t see or read it, they don’t know anything about it.<\/p>\n
So, who knows?<\/p>\n
I don’t know.<\/p>\n
But what’s the point anyway?<\/p>\n
Let’s not forget, we live under \u2018tribal\u2019 conditions!<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ***<\/p>\n
In the 2020 elections, all kinds of interventions were made, all the means of the Turkish Republic were used; decisions for congresses and the question of who would become the Prime Minister were all made by \u2018someone\u2019, not the society. Since then, \u2018obedience\u2019 has been ingrained in the genes of certain segments of society, democracy has been destroyed in this society, and Ankara has become the centre of politics.<\/p>\n
They turned the press into a \u2018pool\u2019 here too; silenced many writers, programmers and journalists, \u2018one way or another\u2019, brought them into line, gave them a fear, intimidated them, or persuaded them with \u2018purely emotional methods\u2019 [Editor’s note: ‘Purely emotional methods’ is an ironic way of suggesting, in Turkish, that proposals based on money are involved<\/em>].<\/p>\n It was not enough though. Now they are coming at us with lawsuits to silence us.<\/p>\n Just last year, all Turkish appointees in Northern Cyprus declared Northern Cyprus as a \u2018constituency\u2019 for the 2023 elections and launched a campaign.<\/p>\n With the ambassador, the mufti…<\/p>\n Even the imam!…<\/p>\n We have become unable to say anything even to the imam who praises the AKP in the mosque…<\/p>\n But it is all normal, now that we have become a \u2018tribe\u2019!…<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ***<\/p>\n Look what else is going on in the \u2018tribe\u2019…<\/p>\n Ali Kishmir is on trial, for instance…<\/p>\n Because that’s what the \u2018Upper Hand\u2019 wants [Editor\u2019s note: Reference to prime minister \u00dcnal \u00dcstel, whose surname, when split into, as in \u00dcst-El, reads as Upper Hand<\/em>] .<\/p>\n Our identity will be changed, by force!<\/p>\n We will be silenced!<\/p>\n Through immigration, population, official propaganda, plenty of money, and force…<\/p>\n Even \u2018tribes\u2019 are not ruled like this!<\/p>\n So we’ve passed that level.<\/p>\n We’re not even a \u2018tribe\u2019 anymore.<\/p>\n Because at least, tribes have \u2018chieftains\u2019…<\/p>\n Could there be a \u2018tribe\u2019 that cannot even elect its own chief?<\/p>\n What did Ali Ki\u015fmir write? He wrote about Ankara’s meeting for a planned intervention.<\/p>\n So what is the crime in this?<\/p>\n Are those who intervened, those who implemented the intervention, or those who wrote about the intervention guilty?<\/p>\n Now they are shamelessly conducting a \u2018trial\u2019 for this disgrace, too.<\/p>\n Get out of here!<\/p>\n This country is not as vacant as you think and Ali Ki\u015fmir is not alone!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n