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2.2 Turkish state in action
The killing of Deniz Poyraz, an office worker at the main pro-Kurdish party Peoples’ Democratic Party’s (HDP) office in Izmir, “should not be seen as an isolated hate crime but rather as part of a broader government-led crackdown against the HDP.”
“The government has put its chaos plans into action,” HDP co-chair Mithat Sancar said.
It is hard to evaluate in Turkey who is a criminal gang leader, who is a political party leader, who is a minister and who is the president.
The blood coincidentally ran three days after Erdogan finished up his business at a Nato gathering in Brussels, meeting Joe Biden & Co to secure the transactional relationships that mean he can carry on representing himself as Turkey’s legitimate, Western-endorsed leader.
On June 19, two days after the brutal death of Poyraz, Turkey’s president deigned to say: “We are condemning this provocative assault and will do so in possible attacks in the future.”
We can expect Erdogan’s neverending condemnations?
The expectation from Erdogan now is for a similar scenario that was staged after his AKP lost its parliamentary majority in the June poll of 2015. Turkey endured a bloody period.
Attacks against HDP and Kurds are, meanwhile, happening on a regular basis.
Erdogan’s junior coalition partner and the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) Bahceli, it seems, is also among those who anticipate violence in the coming days. He said on June 29: “I warn everyone, a much more slippery, chaotic, complex period is ahead of us.”
The murder suspect Onur Gencer’s Instagram account shows him toting guns in Manbij, Syria. He told police that he had been to Manbij as a health care worker in 2020.
“The Instagram photos—a man carrying an M-16 [some gun, a big one for serious wars] at a camp claimed to be in Syria and making the [far-right Grey Wolves] sign—indicate that this man was trained at an incubation centre,” HDP MP Garo Paylan told Halk TV.
“This is a fascist attack... It indicates the presence of an illicit, paramilitary formation. ... There are many rumours and all of them should be very carefully investigated. Remember the murder of Hrant Dink [the Armenian-Turkish journalist killed in 2007], which was initially presented as a lone wolf crime by a 17-year-old but later revealed a dark web that touched the depths of the state,” Murat Bakan, an MP of the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), said during another Halk TV appearance.
The CHP still believes that this is the same republic that it founded. Its rhetoric suggests that some so-called deep state or criminal gangs within the Turkish state commit the crimes. However, the CHP’s republic is history now and let’s remember it also amounted to a criminal enterprise, as all states do (Okay, the CHP republic was at least a “state”, not a pure “gangland” as we have right now).
Police violently attacked the Pride parade attempt. Turkey’s woman movement remains the only power in the country that can hold demonstrations
10 TURKEY Country Report August 2021 www.intellinews.com