The conscience of Islamists, who do not raise their voices against oppression and injustice unless they identify with their identity in Turkey or abroad, has become convinced of Palestine once again. But this voice does not help Palestine.
The conscience of the political Islamists was not activated while their opponents were rotting in prisons for decades.
Saturday, mothers searching for their children remained silent as they were pushed and shoved.
While Armenians and other religious minorities were treated like pigeons, they didn’t care. Hrant Dink was killed and his killers were blinded while protecting them.
This conscience worked alongside the state while miners were dying, worker murders multiplied everywhere, workers were being sacked, village lives were being destroyed by hydroelectric power plants, and forests were being handed over to mining companies for the sake of the coal ambition of the government and its supporters.
This conscience disappeared while women were killed, gays were humiliated, university students were beaten with clubs, and child abuse scandals erupted in dormitories and courses affiliated with religious sects.
After the 2016 coup attempt, the lives of tens of thousands of people were destroyed, academics were thrown into the streets by decree, and people were driven to suicide due to poverty, injustice, and injustice.
Although the suffering of the Kurds has not changed from generation to generation, it does not address any lawlessness, murder, or tyranny.
He saw from the government’s point of view when thousands of Kurdish villages were burned to the ground in the 1990s, the Roboski massacre in which 34 people died was covered up to avoid harming the state, and Sur and Nusaybin were razed to the ground for political survival in 2015-2016. One party said “goodbye” during Exposure to political genocide.
As the occupation expanded in Syria, people in Afrin were displaced, jihadists looted their homes, workplaces, olive groves and forests, left the people of Hasakah without water, and villages were constantly bombed in the name of a safe zone or assassinations. It was carried out using drones, and he composed an epic for the government.
While the bombing operations continued, causing the evacuation of hundreds of villages in Iraqi Kurdistan under the name of combating terrorism, the slaughter of tourists in Birah with artillery fire, and the bombing of Şengal, everything the region witnessed was justified.
In 2014, ISIS did not hesitate to massacre Yazidis and sell their women in slave markets. He remained silent while ISIS suicide bombers, witnessed and monitored by the state, carried out massacres in Suruc, Ankaragar and Diyarbakir.
The list is very long and overwhelming! With the exception of a few, the conscience of Islamists has never moved toward this blacklist. Loyalty to the state before the AKP and state ownership after the AKP served as justification for organized evil. Mazloum Dir, a human rights organization affiliated with Islamic circles, was also turned into a “guardian”, so that no one from the community could point out the government’s criminal record. The grievances grew like an avalanche. The hype, manipulation and lies have become so intense that they will overwhelm opponents. Civil society in the Islamic circle not only withdrew all criticism of the regime in order to protect the gains and interests achieved with the AKP, but also turned into official spokespeople who produced government approval anyway. Therefore, the tears shed for Gaza do not affect the tears.
The Palestinian issue is like the sectarian issue of political Islam. Every time a war of extermination begins against Gaza, it opens its curtain in front of its believers.
But here too there are situations when the spear does not fit into the bag. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan continued his stance of embracing Hamas in Germany, which remains Israel’s strongest supporter after the United States. He taught a lesson to Olaf Schulz, Germany’s most incompetent chancellor ever, and provided emotional satisfaction to his electoral base. In Turkey, Islam’s love for Palestine is not enough even for demonstrations in which one hundred thousand people participate, let alone the demonstrations of millions: Istanbul’s heart beats for Gaza, but from the corner of its eye it looks at London, which rises to its feet. Clearly, it is enough for Erdogan to speak on behalf of all of them.
Erdogan’s frankness can simply be attributed to his personality. But aren’t there other reasons for his high-pitched speech? For example, what they did for Israel and what they could not do for Palestine. The noise it makes greatly obscures them. Didn’t the Justice and Development Party remain loyal to the military agreements with Israel, far from trade agreements? Didn’t the Israeli pilots who bombed Gaza increase their flying experience in the skies of Konya under the AKP government, at least until 2008? Haven’t more than 300 cargo ships coming from Turkey docked in the ports of Ashdod and Haifa since October 7? Didn’t Kurdistan/Kirkuk oil feed Israel through an illegal agreement years ago? Doesn’t Israel today meet 40% of its oil needs from the Baku-Ceyhan line? Doesn’t a large portion of Israel’s iron and steel needs come from Turkey?
While Erdogan cannot provide any concrete reaction that would put Israel in trouble, he is writing bad checks on behalf of Palestine. Israel and its largest ally, the United States, are not making any meaningful response that would prompt them to stop the war. It would not be surprising if he agrees to leave Gaza to an international force tomorrow, in continuation of the scenario of eliminating resistance. It is clear that the initiatives of the United Nations, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation and other international platforms have no impact on Israel. He says he does his best by turning the ball over on this field. There are many people who believe that Erdogan, who turned the blood of those who died in Mavi Marmara into money and closed the case, will drag Israel to the International Criminal Court. Not only did he not show any of the positions demanded by the Minute, but he was enthusiastic about his plan to transfer Israeli natural gas from Turkey to its Western partners until October 7. I have mentioned in many of my articles: The AKP subcontracted American plans to eliminate all countries in the region that disturbed Israel.
Moreover, the inconsistent Palestinian discourse espoused by political Islamists is counterproductive. In parallel with the rise of Islamic movements in the Palestinian issue, a strange indifference settled in leftist and secular circles, while in return an irreparable sensitivity increased. Since October 7, there has been another shift in disinterest in Palestine: those who belong to the Justice and Development Party for various reasons are choosing a position in favor of Israel. There is no justification for supporting a genocidal war waged by an occupying and colonial power. Neither morally nor conscientiously. As a new curtain opens on the 75-year-old policy of destruction against the Palestinians, shy people who cannot reveal their support for Israel prefer to see what is happening as a “war between Israel and Hamas.” This basically means accompanying the scenario proposed by the Netanyahu administration. Moreover, Arab hatred fueled by the Syrian refugee issue appears to have taken off with the war in Gaza.
The Islamists, who had become corrupt with the AKP government, used Palestine to project themselves and played a role in the shift in favor of Israel. While the Palestinian resistance was on the shoulders of the left, the Islamists’ interest in the issue was to talk about the sanctity of Jerusalem. I wonder what would happen if the non-Islamic organization were the locomotive of resistance?
Ultimately, the greatest harm that can be done to the Palestinian cause is to turn it into a religious war. Erdogan did so by saying: “The incident is a cross-crescent issue.” Palestinian Christians are also victims of the war of colonial occupation and genocide. Pictures from London, Dublin, Athens, Madrid, Stockholm, Cologne and Belgrade say something else. The voices of Jews who want to stop the war by raiding the US Congress are rising. In many places, Jews are joining the voices of Palestinian Arabs. By portraying the issue as a religious war, Erdogan also insults the memory of people like Jewish-American Rachel Corrie, who sacrificed her life for the Palestinians. No Islamic organization was able to make the contribution made by B’Tselem, which documented the oppression suffered by the Palestinians through its reports. Bold articles in Haaretz have more influence than the masses of Islamic media. There are Jewish academics who reveal in a striking manner the system of genocide and apartheid in Palestine. They are more effective.
Any comment or statement that attempts to limit the references of the conscientious and moral position to their religious patterns does not benefit the Palestinians. On the contrary, it causes harm