Robberies: 'System financing' or preparation for the 'finale'?

There is no such thing as a “systemic disorder” in Turkey. Let’s be clear. There is nothing “extreme” or “contrary” about these funds, the so-called corruption operations, and the activities of the “ballot-box monarchy” (or the Abdul Hamid III regime) that has held Turkey’s fate in its hands—and even buried it—for a quarter of a century. Everything is proceeding as usual.

In that case, there is nothing to be surprised about either.

Because the free market economy, or more accurately, capitalism and democracy, and even undefined “freedom,” etc., are exactly like this. If you have a stock market, for instance, you will also have such alert, sharp-eyed “activists,” and they do not sit idle. After all, their business is making money. They try every method, including extortion, theft, and persuasion operations.

They have to extort large sums of money.

Undoubtedly, all these extortions, thefts, etc., exist in a more balanced form in the imperial centers where their masters reside. Don’t they? If there is private property over the means of production, especially if all institutional limitations have been invalidated in this neoliberal era, it is not the occurrence of such things/robberies that is a cause for surprise, but their absence.

Not among the wealthy, but in “dependent and constantly fleeced” countries like Turkey, imbalances can lead to deep ruptures and global consequences: they are the weak links, as is well known.

For this reason, there is a need for balance. But they have become unable to provide it; this is very clear.

We can say that the ground is slipping from under the feet of an administration that has lost control of the reins and has gathered all the anger of our impoverished people upon itself. But we must now accept that this “fund robbery” is not an “anomaly,” but rather the “normal” of Turkish capitalism, for example. Robberies that are more subtly conceived and do not hurt anyone (for now) except for a narrow circle are carried out in imperial democracies...

“SYSTEM FINANCING” OR PREPARATION FOR THE FINALE?

The day before yesterday, I believe, a hardworking journalist colleague of ours, Bahadır Özgür, tried to point out that this fund robbery and similar ones are a form of “system financing.” He is not wrong. But he is not the first either.

Because there is a precedent: For years, and frequently this year on this site, we have pointed out that such horrific robberies, extortions, and thefts are a weapon to be brought into play for the Islamist government in Ankara at the “finale,” and that the daily tests applied to the public are a preparation for that final showdown. It is the financing of that which is in question.

These robberies involve figures of such magnitude that they cannot be explained by people’s greed for wealth or anything of the sort.

Is this the issue? Everyone sees that this regime will not last long, and that the government, which killed the republic but could not bury it, is marching toward a final showdown. They just cannot admit it and are trying to find stopgap solutions.

Those who know that a transition from the current low-intensity civil war conditions to a high-intensity “final” civil war will take place as a result of a mass reaction are both in the government and in the “opposition”: Islamist Ankara is creating reserve cadres (for both intellectual and plebeian violence) with everything they have stolen and allowed to be stolen. Could the financing of the gangs it will deploy during the final showdown that will result in fragmentation be the reason for this grand robbery? It seems so.

All these stolen assets show how the final showdown is being financed. One, there is this.

And there is also this: Germany likely plays an important role in such thefts, robberies, extortions, and as a center for money laundering. Numerous publications have been made in recent years regarding the extent to which Germany has become a money-laundering paradise. A new incident emerges every day. The “Sarıgül case” must be a drop in the ocean. The Islamists of various shades of the “Abdul Hamid III” regime are likely using this route very frequently. The “Hawala” phenomenon is still not off the agenda.

What kind of function does Germany, Turkey’s first and most important contact center in the outside world, have in such corruption? Who uses whom, and which institutions use which institutions, and how? There may not be anyone who knows exactly. Due to its prevalence and complexity...

Through which countries do the funds extorted by the fund thieves, along with their supporters, remain within the system and get “laundered” until the final showdown at the end?

The point we have reached is this: These people are not doing this robbery just for themselves. They are AKP militants, and perhaps the financing of new paramilitary organizations is at stake.

Anyway, someone must be preparing for a final showdown.

“For this scale cannot bear this much weight”; they know this well.

Perhaps the oppositionists who have accepted being “docile” ballot-box monkeys may not be very aware of it. We are not sure.

But we are sure of one thing: “Advanced democracies” definitely have a central function in these robberies. It needs to be investigated, and it is not possible for this to be done by large foundations or the employees of imperial institutions that have been fed in one way or another. Let’s leave the exceptions aside for now.

How painful...

We have to deal with such things on the death anniversary of a great revolutionary who was raised by these lands and was able to found a republic. Think about the gravity of the situation...