Ertugrul Ozkok: I assumed the Turkish PM would have investigated fraud

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Ertugrul Ozkok: I assumed the Turkish PM would have investigated fraud
Oluşturulma Tarihi: Eylül 07, 2008 13:48

One of the suspects in the Deniz Fener case has claimed that he sent financial aid funds collected from the faithful to the prime minister.

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They were presented with a receipt for the amount.

 

I assumed that the PM would go after the person who made the claim regarding him.

 

Bu no, what does he do?  

 

He protects them and launch an attack on us.

 

More so, he claims we are corrupt.

 

The faithful thieves exploited the emotional unity of the people. And the prime minister accuses us of being corrupt.

 

The German court is judging the case of these emotion exploiters.

 

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But still the prime minister turns to us and says we are “corrupt”.

 

The German prosecutor says in his indictment that one of the officials from the organization delivered a portion of the donated funds to the prime ministry.

 

He also icludes the document relating to this claim in the file.

 

The leader of Turkey’s main opposition party exposed the related documents at a press conference.

 

This press conference is aired by a NTV news channel, a station not related with the Dogan Group.

 

And yet the prime minister turns around and labels us “corrupt”.

 

In fact, he does not even say this in relation to the newspaper editors; he focuses his accusations directly on the owner, Aydin Dogan.

 

The story of the lamb and the wolf comes to mind.

 

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The story about the wolf who accuses the lamb of dirtying his drinking water, even though the lamb is drinking down stream, and when the lamb points this out to the wolf, he responds by saying, “It doesn’t matter, I have decided to eat you anyway. The rest is not important…”

 

It appears the prime minister has decided to devour the freedom of the press anyway, it was just a matter of finding an excuse.

 

The excuse he found is the corruption case involving the Deniz Fener Charity.

 

In other words, this speech gives moral support to the thieves who exploited the generous nature of those people who donated funds.

 

***

 

I read the news once again.

 

I tried to understand why the prime minister was so heated up about this.

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What did the indictment that Deniz Baykal make public actually say?

 

It said that certain individuals, who thought they were being clever, said that they had transferred funds to the Prime Ministry.

 

And in return, they received a cash receipt.

 

Why is Erdogan so enraged?

 

The prime minister says, “I didn’t take any money”, this means that the situation is worse for him.

 

It means that the German swindlers and their Turkish collaborators orchestrated fraudulent acts and falsely involved the prime ministers name in it.

 

Who do you think the prime minister should be standing behind at such a time?

 

The thieves of emotions?

 

Or the newspapers that report of this news?

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Logic and conscience would dictate that in this type of situation he stand by the judges hearing the case and the newspapers and television stations following it.

 

If this money was not transferred to the prime minister, before he focuses his attention on us, should he not make a stand against these allegations and those who carry out these fraudulent acts and say “how dare you associate my name in this,” and file a lawsuit against those making this association.

 

Instead what does he do?

 

He embraces the thieves of conscience and starts hollering at us.

 

He doesn’t just shout, he humiliates us.

 

He makes moral statements.

 

The corruption is not here, it is in Germany, and they used your name to raise funds from believers.

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They are the people that you should be angry at; they are the one’s who dirtied the water Mr. Prime Minister.

 

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Yesterday’s speech revealed once again that the prime minister does not like being criticized.

 

The prime minister has no tolerance to his being rejected.

 

The prime minister has transformed this into a matter of religion saying, “Our children, our brothers would never commit crimes, our people would never be involved in corruption.”

 

He fails to smell the foul stench emanating from certain local councils and organizations and business circles that show him support.

 

Our prime minister is accustomed and has become more accustomed to demanding obeisance.

 

He likes his surroundings to remain calm and peaceful, and he wants things to remain inside his circle.

 

But this era is an era of communication.

 

Nothing can remain hidden.

 

If an explanation is not being sought here, it is surely being sought somewhere else.

 

While immorality and corruption become localized issues, the rule of law, seeking explanations and handing out punishments are becoming global.

 

Even while the government does everything in its power to silence the media in Turkey, a legal case outside of their control involving people from within their sphere begins.

 

As you see, the wolf can not devour the lamb despite all its excuses.

 

And a final remark to the prime minister…

 

As Turkey prepares for the historic football match taking place in Yerevan and we all wait in hope of peace.

 

On such an important day, do you think it is right to steal the lime light from the president, the Turkish people and the Turkish national football team?

 

 

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