An open letter to Eser Karakaş

1) Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan participates in the March 29 local elections, having the Saadet Party phobia. Unemployment is a problem. Plus, there is no nonsense discussion on "we are losing laicism" or no new "April 27 e-memorandum" to boost Erdoğan’s support. Therefore, his election strategy is based on verbal attacks on the "big media" for he has no other pretext of aggravation, though he always manages to find a way to play the aggrieved even in the government. In this case, the pro-government media members are taking a swipe at the Aydın Doğan media group. The more they slammed down on us the more they earn.

They are feeling obliged to do so, just like the generals of the Feb. 28 process.

2) Besides several media members with no accumulation of knowledge are chasing after fame as they see necessary to insult the Hürriyet and Milliyet dailies as well as Hürriyet’s editor-in-chief, Ertuğrul Özkök. They take the stage once in a while and try to steal the show.

Dear Eser Karakaş; you don’t belong to the said group, you shouldn’t be.

You are a distinguished finance expert rarely found in this country. There is no more title left for you to earn other than your current "professor" tenure.

Everyone is proud of your wife, Professor Işıl Karakaş, being a judge at the European Court of Human Rights, or ECHR. I don’t think you need money.

Dear Karakaş why are you lashing out at the Milliyet and Hürriyet dailies? (Star daily, 15.03.2009)

You must have not been happy with this yourself because you make long explanations to clarify that you don’t have a problem with either Hürriyet nor Milliyet.

You stressed in your article that Hürriyet and Milliyet insisted on not seeing the "wells in Silopi".

I searched the archives in both newspapers and came up with 12 articles in Hürriyet and six articles in Milliyet published since Dec. 16, 2008. I think these figures were not enough for you.

However, I am offended by your criticism of columnists whom you claim do not write on this particular subject.

First of all, I am quite surprised by your determination about who should write on what. I cannot speak for others but I do believe that you, as a liberal, are not fair at all.

My book titled "Hadji" in which I question the Feb. 28 process, illegal structuring of the Special War Dept. and murders by unknown prosecutors was published in 2003.

Nowadays, I am writing in my articles about JITEM, the Susurluk incident, killings committed by unknown perpetrators and about that the Ergenekon crime gang case will be null and void if the Feb. 28 process is not examined thoroughly along the case.

I was put before the judge seven times in the Feb. 28 period.

And when I see a tautology by you, which did not fit you at all, I was furious.

Dear Eser; since we have a right to guide each other let me ask you this:

1) Will you, as a scientist, circumvent the "Darwin scandal" in a few lines?

2) Don’t you, as pro-EU, have nothing to tell the screwy George Friedman who is being blessed for mentioning Turkey’s leadership in the Middle East and about the Neo-Ottomans and who implores us to "turn our back on the European Union and concentrate on the Middle East" without looking at the CIA’s relations?

3) Don’t you, as an economist, have anything to criticize Erdoğan for ignoring the economic crisis in favor of the local elections? Don’t you make in-depth analysis over the unemployed, whose number has increased by 838,000 since Dec. 2008 and reached 3.274 million?

Dear Eser Karakaş, have you, as the columnist of the daily Star, ever thought of these questions while you were flying together with Sabah, Zaman, Yeni Şafak and Taraf dailies columnists in a private plane for Mr. Prime Minister?