10 unanswered questions about the Dec. 17 operation
Date posted: January 28, 2014
AHMET HAKAN, HÜRRİYET
1- Even though Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MİT) tipped off the government about the unlawful transactions of Reza Zarrab a full eight months before the corruption investigation became public on Dec. 17, why didn’t the government pay attention to MİT’s warning?
2- Will Turkish citizens place any trust in their country’s courts?
3- If a person close to the government is suspected of corruption, will prosecutors and the police be able to carry out an investigation?
4- Would we have learned about the endemic corruption if there was no conflict between the government and the Hizmet movement?
5- When did the government realize the existence of the alleged parallel state?
6- Referring to the Hizmet movement, Erdoğan said: “What did they want that we didn’t give?” Exactly what does the prime minister mean by this?
7- How many prosecutors’ orders have not been carried out by the police since Dec. 17?
8- What kind of crime was involved in the “pineapple” incident?
9- Will the government give a response to the US Treasury’s designation of Zarrab as a financier of terrorism, even though the prime minister had previously called him a “charitable businessman”?
10- How many bureaucrats have been reassigned since Dec. 17?
Questions to challenge the primary and unjustified premise: What judicial (or other) process determined that these corruption investigations were a coup attempt against the government? What proof or evidence do you have to support this most serious claim? What disciplinary process did you undertake to determine that the people that were purged were members and culprits of this ‘coup’? In the absence of evidence and disciplinary process how did you determine these people’s association with Hizmet? When is government corruption not a judicial coup? How can you have the right to unilaterally determine the intent and purpose of these ongoing judicial investigations when your government is implicated in them? If your government can purge over 7,000 police officers (and thereby affect and prevent these investigations) without evidence, due process or disciplinary procedure, do you not set a precedent for every future potentially corrupt government to follow?
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