On July 15 our beloved country suffered a most violent physical assult. Seven bombs
were dropped on The Grand National Assembly which was then in session. As the
right wing of the building was severely damaged, the Deputies went on to resume
their meeting in the under ground shelter. Peoples’ representatives refused to leave
the building and stood sentry for the next twenty-four hours within which the
attempted coup was thwarted. Please note that never before in its 139 year old
history, neither by enemy nor by foe had the Turkish Parliament (1877) been
corporeally attacked. This damnable transgression is the very first.
Concurrently, the modest seaside resort where the Honorable Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
and his family, including grandchildren, were vacationing, was being raided by a
dozen men heavily armed with gun night sights. The men were masked and bore no
insignia, military or otherwise. As security guards engaged the gang, the President
of the Turkish Republic scaped the assasination attempt by some fifteen minutes
only. Please note again that in our long history, no political leader, including the late
Prime Minister Adnan Menderes, was impeached without due legal trial.
The fact is that the Turkish people abhor the thought that death by assasination is
condign chastisement for any leader, including late John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther
King, Jr, Benazir Bhutto, Thomas D’Arcy McGee, Rafic Hariri, Mahatma Gandhi to name a few. Now, imagine if you will, the sights and sounds of sinister night helicopters
and jets firing away indiscriminately over the Ankara skies. Having done that,
consider the cooly serviced images by international media of the brutally
dismembered bodies of late Saddam Huseyin, Muammer Kaddafi, et al, juxtaposed
with estimeed President Erdoğan and/or the men and women members of the
Turkish Parliament. You cannot but empathise with the Turkish people who took to
the streets determined to stop the crazed hashashin at any cost.
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