February 17, 2012

Hizmet, forming a party and capturing the state

İhsan Yılmaz

During the recent political crisis surrounding the National Intelligence Organization (MİT), the judiciary, the police, the Justice and Development Party (AKP) and the Hizmet movement, a few pro-AKP writers have implied that Hizmet has been interfering with politics.

Unfortunately, these writers do not appear to have any idea of a proper and well functioning democracy, and this worries me.

Columnist says judiciary has evidence against MİT members

Today's Zaman

Mehmet Ali Birand
Mehmet Ali Birand, a columnist for the Posta daily, has said based on interviews he conducted with members of the judiciary regarding prosecutors summoning of top National Intelligence Organization (MİT) members as suspects in an ongoing case that there is strong evidence against the MİT members.

Birand wrote in a column on Tuesday that prosecutors are doing their jobs despite claims that either the Fethullah Gülen community is using prosecutors or the police force is using prosecutors to put the government in a tough position because of its support for MİT’s negotiations with members of the terrorist Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) to find a solution to the country’s long-lasting Kurdish issue.