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Home > Authors > Osman Çutsay > Isn't the origin of absolute nullity in Europe?

Isn't the origin of absolute nullity in Europe?

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Published: 13.10.2026 06:00

It started in Europe first.

What, you ask?

“Absolute nullity”!

To put it a bit bluntly, we have the right to make such a claim.

This exists not only in law but also in social history. Viewed in this light, the aspect of “absolute nullities” in Europe that directly concerns the Republic of Turkey is very clear. We will explain.

First, this question: Does Europe have a priority?

It will be a repetition, but let us recall this definition: Absolute nullity is, very briefly, the declaration that a legal transaction is null and void. Because it is “clearly contrary to the law,” the transaction—for example, a republican institution—is considered invalid. It is, in other words, non-existent.

Is every republic, among its other aspects, not a legal transaction? It is. The history of societies also contains this absolute nullity.

At the end of the 20th century, they declared 1917 (the October Revolution) an absolute nullity, and it largely stuck. But the German Democratic Republic, founded in 1949, about a year and a half before that, had been declared an absolute nullity. That stuck completely. They zeroed out that republic. Our 1923 is next; for sure. We can already assume that it has been treated as a “relative nullity” for quite some time.

Anyway...

THE UNBRIDLED LIFE OF THE OLIGARCHS

We are in a plutocracy. We could also call it the direct rule of ruthless rich people or the ruthless political power of the wealthy. Their decision to govern personally is relatively new. So, Trump is not the only one. The politicians and political kinships among our “fund thieves” are also an example of our plutocracy. There are even ministers.

The direct rule of the wealthy could be partially curbed in the last century (the “short century”); after the 1989/90 restoration, free-market economies gradually threw off all their restraints. A savagery, which is pushing humanity onto a path that will lead to a great war and destruction, seems to have resurfaced.

It wasn't like this before. (We won't say, “Everything around here used to be orchards.”) However, socialist states and countries were also influencing the West and the countries in its sphere of influence. Something called democracy was on the stage. They were forced to grant certain rights to the peoples of Europe and the world that would not normally be recognized. The rich were very afraid. Anti-imperialism was effective.

At the end of 1989, this parenthesis closed.

One should not expect the reactionary camp (with its Turkish nationalists, Islamists, Kurds, and liberals) that views our republican regime as a parenthesis, or rather an “anomaly,” to understand this process. However, it is clear that we owe the fact that humanity could breathe a little, and the war-free period in Europe between 1945 and 1990, to the socialist state experiments in the world. It is those institutions that forced the rich to behave “decently” and to grant the working classes rights they would not normally have granted.

BRAKELESS DEMOCRACY: A NEW TYRANNY?

Wealthy arrogance/barbarism has become rampant in the new century on a global scale due to an absolute nullity that has erased socialism. The 1989/90 turning point became a declaration of absolute nullity against all the institutions and rules of the relatively “decent” period experienced after the Second World War.

We have arrived at today...

The target of the plutocrats here is now “1923 Turkey.” They are waiting for the final blow or the coup de grâce...

There is no turning back from this decision. There is also no chance other than preparing to face the disasters that will occur in the world and in Turkey. Can we say that the young generation is ready for this? Retirees are the ones suffering the pain first. The scene witnessed by a truly competent journalist friend of ours—who observed that there was no significant group of young people alongside the handful of relatively elderly people trying to protest in Kadıköy with bags in their hands, and that the youth were actually killing time in nearby cafes with their phones—is painful. But his observation is true.

One, this exists.

And then there is the real democracy in European Germany.

European democracies can no longer be limited by the old brakes. Those brakes are gone. Therefore, social democrats, greens, and even left-wing party members who declare themselves to be warring hawks should not surprise anyone.

The real fear of someone like Cem Özdemir, who has risen to the position of state premier (we say this precisely because of this right-wing politician, as in “Europe does not give credit to old-style racism”), actually explains many things. He warned again over the weekend about his country shifting to the left. He must be very afraid of The Left Party (Die Linke)... They are even afraid of the non-leftist Left Party.

“Anti-war” people who are fond of war...

The situation is dire. With the death of real socialism, we have experienced the birth of “real democracy.” The new regime of oppression must be something like this.

This is one of the results of the absolute nullity storm in the world. So it started before Turkey.

But it could cost us much more. There are no reasons left for them not to declare absolute nullity for Turkey as well. We are talking about the cancellation of the republic as we know it.

Is it too far-fetched?

We shall see. If we cannot pull ourselves together, we shall see...

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