Egyptian Chronicles: Secular terrorism

I guess you also read the news about this terrorist Ergenekon group in Turkey , to tell you the truth when I read the words “terrorist” in news , I thought that they were either Kurds or Islamists it did not even came to my mind that there are Turkish secular Nationalists.

By the way I have never seen a Turk who is not a nationalist and loyal to his country whether as a secular or as an Islamist , because as a secular he belong to the great Turkey where as the Islamist has got the great Ottoman Empire , Istanbul was Constantinople once upon time.

So I did not get easily that news except after doing some serious reading.It turned out these secular nationalists do not want the Islamists nor democracy for Turkey. They were planning to have a military coup by the army and before that coup some Turkish personalities would be eliminated , that list included the president , prime minister , some army figures , Kurdish personalities and the Nobel Prize winner ‘Armenian Genocide recogniser” Orhan Pamuk.

This arrest caused a lot of stir , because two important retired army generals including the former commander of Paramilitary were arrested among the the other high profile arrests from doctors and lawyers not to mention the explosives , it was planned to be one hell of coup. It is not like those favourite terrorist groups of Egyptian interior ministry from unemployed. By this is not the first arrest , the arrests started since last January also a military personality.

Strangely these guys did not want to join the EU despite of their secularism and rejection of the Islamic identity of Turkey. May be because they are refusing the democracy EU wants to be applied in Turkey , along with other issues , life and death Issues for them like Cyprus and the Armenian Genocide.

The Turkish army and its leadership was in Shock and I have the feeling that some people in its leadership supported that coup with the escalation currently rising against the AKP . Already I do not know what those seculars want , up till this moment the AKP managed to keep Turkey as powerful , in fact it is much powerful than ever , now it has better Chance to join the EU , it gives the Kurds lessons as it wants and no one can speak to her and last not least it solved the problems with Syria some how and it managed to overcome their differences.

Already those seculars did not want democracy but wanted the army rule , they wanted the military rule . I can’t get them how they think.I mean you refuse Religion and also Democracy , then what you welcome and want military dictatorship !!??

Of course the other seculars in Turkey said that it is a set up from the Government , the thing which some how I do not believe because the army in Turkey is not peaceful

In modern history Turkey saw as far as I remember over 3 coups in 1960,1971,1980 and in 1997 , in 4 decades

I do not want another coup to happen in Turkey because for the AKP managed to give an example to the whole world that Islam can live with democracy and with Western Standards.

By the way do you know what is the meaning of “Ergenekon” ??

It the mystical place the Turks tribes lived in for 400 years and from which they were led to fight their enemies by a big gray wolf.

Source: Book of Dede Korkut