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Home > Authors > Osman Çutsay > The politics of particles and the financing puzzle: 'Calamitous questions'

The politics of particles and the financing puzzle: 'Calamitous questions'

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Published: 23.10.2026 06:00

We are looking for answers. We are trying to find the reasons.

The Islamist Ankara is going after a certain segment—the well-known opposition circles whose comfortable status is well-known to the impoverished public. There is pressure. It is true. Why, I wonder?

We are looking for the reason behind this arbitrariness that crushes all logic of law. With what state of mind and for what purpose is the Islamist administration doing this? Is it to intimidate? Is the goal a kind of blackmail? Is it to prevent the public from voicing their complaints by making it look like they are beating even the "reputable opposition"?

Or is it to gauge the pulse of the public rather than the moderate desperation of the opposition?

We don't say much because the AKP government's most reasonable/acceptable major opposition, the New Party, is being roughed up a bit. Threats aside. Blackmail, too. However, despite these visible pressures, the government still doesn't go after the opposition it considers an "alternative" very hard.

Ankara, these days, is not just failing to forgive the new Uğur Mumcus of the media. This is how the government tests the relationship between the public and the Timur Soykans, Murat Ağırels, Barışs, and İsmail Arıs, whose numbers are not very high. For now, the public does not really stand by its new Uğur Mumcus. This situation, of course, does not escape the eyes of the "nouveau monarchists." That is why the pressures of the III. Abdülhamid militants on certain circles never end.

This is a truly fox-like calculation. While the government officially seizes giant media institutions and tries to pass it off as "appointing a trustee," the public doesn't make much noise. Indeed, a presenter for HalkTV stated that while the institution was being shut down, they could only count 63 people in front of the building for support. They are complaining. Without ever looking at their own address and how they appear from there. The impoverished public is not very sensitive to the seizure of a shrewd boss's property. Moreover, our people know that those journalists have very high incomes, or at least they think so, and they are not entirely wrong if one looks at the "İsmail Saymaz school."

Anyway...

There are two issues.

One: So far, Ankara aims to scare the public more than it aims to intimidate those who oppose it. For now, it is successful.

Two: But more importantly, it can constantly measure social tension. It already owes its quarter-century of power to its ability to control this social tension. However, this has changed in the last few years. Still, even if tension rises, that is, if anger accumulates, it is enough that this does not reflect on the streets: This is how they look at it, and there is an incredible accumulation of wealth...

Wealth accumulation?..

Based on these two issues, our truly "spicy" question is this: Is this wealth not too much, even for certain well-known predatory families to live comfortably in Turkey and outside of Turkey and maintain the luxury they are accustomed to if the AKP falls from power? Is it an "absurd claim" that this accumulation, including local gangs, will be used to finance armed units to be used in a social chaos or a high-intensity internal reckoning? Is it a simple suspicion? If not, what is it?

Why can't the government intervene in such trillion-level accumulations, despite their thefts being so obvious? Could it be that Ankara is unable to see how the ground beneath its feet is slipping for this very reason?

THIS FINANCING MUST HAVE A TARGET

What is happening is clear. The connections are also clear. The sanctions against the opposition elements in the media inherent to the "III. Abdülhamid" regime are not very heavy. It already revolves around certain names. These are complementary/triggering measures of a small-scale counter-revolution. The legal footprints of the regime...

But there is a parallelism between the planes.

As you know, they have been regulating the money markets for years with small-scale devaluations and daily adjustments, repeated day by day. Those who see this as a precautionary package for a low-intensity civil war are not entirely wrong. We have been there for a long time.

So, what if the breakdown cannot be prevented?

Which seems to be the case.

Will these fortunes have a function in the transition from a low-intensity civil war climate to a high-intensity civil war or a final social reckoning environment? What will they be used for in the great fragmentation? Are new and special law enforcement forces being financed to protect something?

These billions, even trillions, must have a reason, a target that goes beyond personal greed for wealth...

A thousand kinds of "calamities" come to mind.

We are now facing an aggression that goes beyond playing with fire. They cannot reach their final goals. The goal: To completely bury the Republic and tear the country to pieces and Syrianize it... They are in the nervousness and recklessness of this. But who can claim that they are not organized financially?

Could it be that the Atlantic alliance, the concrete support of Europe and the USA, is locked onto this finale?

These are just "calamitous" questions...

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