Religionist bigots & separatist Kurdists

DYNASTICIST RELIGIONISM Versus PIETY / SEPARATIST KURDISM Versus KURDISHNESS…

AS PEOPLE WHO LOVE THEIR RELIGION, THEIR STATE, AND THEIR COUNTRY, WE:

• SHOULD BE AGAINST DYNASTICIST RELIGIONISM, NOT PIETY,
• SHOULD BE AGAINST SEPARATIST AND DIVISIVE KURDISM, NOT KURDISHNESS…

Peace…!

The ADDRESSEES of this somewhat lengthy article of mine are, FIRST and FOREMOST, the PIOUS PEOPLE in the grip of DYNASTICIST RELIGIONISM & BIGOTRY and the KURDS in the grip of SEPARATIST/DIVISIVE KURDISM…

If only my PIOUS brothers and my KURDISH brothers could understand me as correctly as I am able to understand them...

Insha’Allah (God willing), after what I am about to write below, they too will understand me correctly…

I am a Turk, born in Manisa in 1956. My family (my parents and my elder brother) and my relatives were Sunni and Hanafi Muslims. Well, I was the same, PROVIDED THAT I DID NOT EXAGGERATE IT or turn it into a SECTARIAN BIGOTRY.

However, I no longer define myself as "Sunni-Hanafi," but solely and exclusively as a “RATIONALIST and QUR’ANIST” Muslim.

My late father, Nuri Erdemli, was a sincere disciple (shagird) of Bediüzzaman Said Nursi. During my childhood years in the 1960s, our house in Manisa was like a Risale-i Nur madrasah (dershane). 

In those years, in our home and the homes of other Nur disciples (meaning the Nurcus!), they always used to read Risale-i Nur collections that were hand-written in Ottoman Turkish (in Arabic script), duplicated (teksir), and bound with genuine leather spines.

My father passed away when I was in the 3rd grade of primary school. I can say that I grew up and was raised in Manisa under the patronage of my mother and elder brother, as well as our relatives and my father’s disciple friends (the Nurcus!).

Yea-rs after my father’s death, Khodja İsmail Hakkı Zeyrek (who is the son of Mullah Emîn Zeyrek), an old Nurcu and a close friend of my father, told me how he and my father had visited Said Nursi together in Barla, Isparta, where he was living in exile at the time, and received his blessing.

After primary school, I received one year of Qur’an and Arabic education at the Karaköy Qur'an Course in Manisa, which was managed by a Nurcu staff in those years. Then, I started Manisa Imam Hatip School. 

Later, as we moved to Izmir as a family, I graduated from Izmir Imam Hatip School and subsequently finished the Faculty of Economics.

Throughout my student and youth years, I was always together with the Risale-i Nur disciples.

And after Fethullah Gülen began to be known in Izmir, I was always within the Hizmet Movement, until I was forced to leave the country in 2017 due to my affiliation with FETÖ/PDY (Fethullahist Armed Terrorist Organization/Parallel State Structuring)and came here… 

As of today, I am 70 years old and have been a political refugee in Switzerland for nearly 9 years!

Throughout my entire life, under the influence of my family and these religious (actually, I should say RELIGIONIST!) environments in which I was born, grew up, and was educated, I never liked Atatürk. On the contrary, I always hated him.

Because all the Nurcus, starting with Said Nursi, the Süleymancıs, members of religious orders (tarikat), political Islamists, this group, and that group, always ranted and insulted Atatürk as a "dajjal" (antichrist), an atheist, an enemy of religion, etc., etc., etc., I unfortunately could never like him either.

I always looked at the People’s Republican Party (CHP), its members, secularists, Atatürkists, and Kemalists with hatred.

I could never like Turkiye’s Republican regime either. I never liked or celebrated any national holidays, starting with our most important national holiday, the Republic Day, as well as May 19, April 23, August 30, and so on.

I perceived all the revolutions made by Atatürk as "enmity towards Islam." I can even say that I could not internalize the State of the Republic of Turkiye, of which I was a citizen, due to these resentful considerations, and I lived my life accepting myself as a STEPCHILD of this state.

I always looked coldly upon Atatürk's reforms and the secular order. For decades, I could never understand why the Kemalist regime threw Nurcus into prison—starting with Said Nursi—banned the Nur Treatises, and why it constantly viewed all other religious orders, communities, Fethullah Gülen, the Hizmet Movement, and the political Islamist Necmeddin Erbakan as dangerous and objectionable; why it constantly and successively shut down Erbakan's National View (Milli Görüş) parties, tolerated Erbakan's premiership for only one year and with great difficulty, and always looked down upon today's AKP members, who are Erbakan's ungrateful apprentices.

I always FOUND IT STRANGE that the TR (Turkish Republic) regime felt distrust toward all these religious (actually, I should say RELIGIONIST!) communities, orders, Islamists, and political Islamists.

In short, I lived my life in a state of resentment toward the Turkish state and its regime.

In October 2017, due to my FETÖ/PDY affiliation, JUST BEFORE I WAS ABOUT TO BE CAUGHT AND ARRESTED, I left the country illegally via the Maritsa (Meriç) River, crossed into Greece, and from there came to Switzerland.

While in the country, I always welcomed with pleasure the imprisonment of Atatürkist army officers, generals, and intellectuals through the Balyoz (Sledgehammer), Ergenekon and etc. investigations carried out by members of the Hizmet Movement within the Security and Judiciary.

On December 17-25, 2013, I again welcomed and defended the attempts of Hizmet Movement members in the Security and Judiciary to prepare corruption-theft files and convict Erdoğan—who was Prime Minister then (actually, I should say CHIEF-THIEF!)—himself, his family, AKP ministers, and bureaucrats.

In the private teaching/tutoring centers (dershane) crisis between the AKP and the Hizmet Movement and the subsequent quarrels and fights, I always took the side of and defended the Hizmet Movement.

During the July 15, 2016 coup attempt days, we were living in Istanbul. From those hot days of the coup attempt until I was forced to leave the country in October 2017, I always believed that the Hizmet Movement was not responsible for this uprising and believed in its innocence. I never had a single bad word to say about the Hizmet Movement.

BUT AND HOWEVER;

After arriving in Switzerland, I began to ponder what happened in the country, what befell the Hizmet Movement and its volunteers (hizmetkârlar), the dismissal of tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands of Hizmet Movement bureaucrats from their jobs in the Defense, Security, and Judiciary bureaucracies and their imprisonment, and the fact that during this process, the volunteers—along with their children—were pushed around and subjected to horrific levels of persecution, torture, and killings.

And I began to STUBBORNLY ASK THE QUESTIONS: "WHY WAS ALL THIS PERSECUTION DEEMED FIT FOR the Hizmet Movement and its volunteers? Why, why, why...?" 

AND I STARTED SEARCHING FOR ANSWERS.

I was asking these persistent "Why, why, why...?" questions both to myself and to other oppressed and victimized volunteers I met here who, like me, were forced to leave the country and come to these places.

While in the country, since I had almost no knowledge or information about the background and inner workings of all that was happening, I could not give proper answers to these questions. Other Hizmet Movement emigrants (muhacir) I asked could not give me satisfactory answers either.

Thus, in Switzerland, I experienced a VERY INTENSE AND PAINFUL PROCESS of ASKING, QUESTIONING, INQUIRING, READING, LISTENING, RESEARCHING, DOUBTING, and OBJECTING that would last about two years.

I shared these questions with other Hizmet Movement emigrants who shared the same fate and had come not only to Switzerland but also to other European countries and the USA/Canada, and whom I met during this process; I demanded answers from them. 

However, none of the volunteers I met and spoke with could make sense of these injustices and persecutions inflicted upon the Hizmet Movement and themselves; they always and persistently said that both they themselves, their elder brothers (aGabey) in the Hizmet Movement, and of course, primarily Fethullah Gülen, were innocent.

UNFORTUNATELY, MANY OF THESE PEOPLE STILL CONTINUE TO PERSISTENTLY CLOSE THEIR EYES TO THE TRUTH, DECEIVE THEMSELVES, AND CONSOLE THEMSELVES WITH THE SAME FEELINGS AND THOUGHTS😞. 

During this painful questioning process, I began to read and listen to Prof. Dr. Yaşar Nuri Öztürk. 

Actually, I used to read and follow him previously while in the country as well. 

However, due to the thick and dark RELIGIONIST influence upon me in those years, I could not FULLY UNDERSTAND the late professor! 

I thus consider this a great SHAME for myself 😞.

 In the refugee camps in Switzerland where we stayed for 17 months until our asylum requests were accepted, I met and formed friendships with Alevis, leftists, atheists, and Kurds—both those affiliated with the PKK and those who were not—who had come from Turkey to apply for asylum. 

Praise be, I still have Alevi, leftist, atheist, and Kurdish friends and companions with whom I maintain our friendship today.

As I stated at the beginning, from my childhood onward, I grew up and was raised in religious (actually, RELIGIONIST!) environments, received religious (religionist!) education and upbringing, and strove to live a religious (actually, RELIGIONIST!) life.

This effort of mine still continues at full speed. However, praise be, it now continues not as a RELIGIONIST BIGOT, but as a pious Muslim who is a devotee of the RELIGION OF ISLAM IN THE QUR'AN, which I learned thanks to YAŞAR NURİ ÖZTÜRK.

As I read and listened to Prof. Yaşar Nuri Öztürk, I REALIZED that the religion I had learned up to this age, and tried to live as far as I had learned, was full of many errors; that my religious knowledge was largely incorrect and distorted😞. 

As I read and listened to Prof. Yaşar Nuri Öztürk, I understood that there were two versions of Islam:

• One is the INVENTED RELIGION, and the other is
• The REVEALED RELIGION.

WHAT WAS THE REVEALED RELIGION AND WHAT HAD HAPPENED TO IT LATER?

The REVEALED RELIGION was the ISLAMIC RELIGION IN THE QUR'AN revealed to Prophet Muhammad. 

During his lifetime, Prophet Muhammad both lived this true Islam in the Qur'an himself and explained and taught it to the first Muslims, i.e., his companions (sahaba).

After his passing, during the caliphates—that is, the STATE PRESIDENCIES—of Abu Bakr, Umar, Uthman, and Ali, these first Muslims strove to live the Islam they learned from Prophet Muhammad as best as they could.

At this point, we must clarify this THORNY issue of the "Caliphate";

The CALIPHATE is an entirely political concept and a political institution.

Within the political culture, political conjuncture, and political tradition of 7th-century Arabia in those days, it is the INSTITUTION OF POLITICALLY GOVERNING that society; that is, it is the institution of STATE PRESIDENCY. Thus, IT HAS NO SACREDNESS or DIVINITY WHATSOEVER.

In fact, Prophet Muhammad's prophethood (risalat, nubuwwat) is distinct, and his "state presidency" that took physical form during the Medina period is entirely separate. 

Prophet Muhammad combined these two features [(prophethood + messengerhood) and the state leadership] in his own personality until his death, serving both as a prophet and a state president, as decreed by Allah in the Qur'an through verses stating (by taking bay'ah from them, i.e., by receiving their approval, you shall GOVERN them!).

However, with the passing of Prophet Muhammad, prophethood (nubuwwat + risalat) ended. 

Because Prophet Muhammad is the final prophet.

Regarding this, I suggest you carefully listen to Prof. Dr. Yaşar Nuri Öztürk's 6-minute explanation at this link: 

[ https://youtu.be/kmYZF3Sri3s?is=J_mCDEZGwD9rM2Dw ]

After the passing of Prophet Muhammad, Abu Bakr, Umar, Uthman and Ali, who were elected by the bay'ah (approval) of the leading companions, governed that society (including Muslims and non-Muslims alike) with the title and authority of STATE PRESIDENT, using entirely worldly, political, and administrative authority, even if their titles were "CALIPH."

With the passing of Prophet Muhammad, the "ERA OF GOVERNING THE SOCIETY IN THE NAME OF GOD OR THE SACRED" ENDED.

However, starting with the caliphate of the third caliph, Uthman, certain political rivalries, disputes, and even fights—entirely worldly and material in origin—emerged in this first Muslim society. 

During the caliphate (state presidency) of Ali, the fourth and FINAL CALIPH, these disputes grew, deepened, and everything spiraled completely out of control.

And finally, Muawiya, son of Abu Sufyan, through his DEVILISH CUNNING and maneuvers, usurped the caliphate (STATE PRESIDENCY) from Ali and became the caliph (STATE PRESIDENT) himself.

Before long, he declared himself KING and, through the force of the sword and death threats, compelled the leading Muslims to pledge allegiance (bay'ah) to him. 

He also appointed his son Yazid (Yazid I) as his successor to become king after him.

Thus, he transformed Islamic administration from a caliphate (meaning STATE PRESIDENCY) into a kingdom—that is, a Sultanate (Dynasty) passed from father to son. 

Muawiya and the Umayyad tribe to which he belonged quickly corrupted, distorted, degenerated, and inverted Islam, changing it by turning it into a legal (shari'i) justification for their cursed sultanate  (Dynasticist) order; they rendered the Islam in the Qur'an—the Islam that Prophet Muhammad lived and taught to his companions— completely UNRECOGNIZABLE.

These cursed Umayyads reigned TYRANNICALLY for approximately 90 years. 

Later, the Abbasids overthrew the Umayyads, established their own BLOODY sultanate, and they too ruled Muslims TYRANNICALLY for about 200 years.

After the Abbasids, many other Muslim dynasties were established: The Fatimids, the Andalusian Umayyads, the Ayyubids, the Great Seljuks, this and that, the Safavids, the Ghaznavids, the Mughals, the Anatolian Seljuks, etc., and finally the Ottomans...

From Muawiya until the collapse of the Ottomans, for nearly 1300-plus years, the Muslim Ummah was always and continuously governed by sultanate dynasties, at the hands of tyrannical sultans, kings, padishahs, and emperors. 

And during these long centuries, THE TRUE RELIGION REVEALED ORIGINALLY IN THE QUR'AN WAS CORRUPTED, DISTORTED, AND DEGENERATED. 

And the religion that has reached the present day—that is, us—turned into a FABRICATED RELIGION long ago.

It was during this intense and painful process of asking, questioning, and researching that, by reading and listening to teacher Yaşar Nuri Öztürk, I became aware of THIS HORRIBLE DEGENERATION IN OUR RELIGION.

For the last 5-6 years, I have been relearning my religion. Whatever I had learned as the Islamic religion until my age of 61, I FORMATTED—meaning I DELETED and THREW IT IN THE TRASH—never to bring it back again.

And I am currently trying to live the TRUE ISLAM—meaning the ISLAM IN THE QUR'AN—which I began to learn by reading and listening to Prof. Dr. Yaşar Nuri Öztürk, FROM SCRATCH. 

PRAISE BE TO ALLAH, who granted me this orientation from the INVENTED RELIGION toward the REVEALED RELIGION in the final stage of my life…

My Dear Brother,

As I began to learn the ISLAM IN THE QUR'AN from Prof. Dr. Yaşar Nuri Öztürk, and as I learned more, I also BEGAN TO PROPERLY UNDERSTAND Mustafa Kemal Atatürk! 

I LEARNED that he was not "an atheist, an enemy of religion, a heretic, an apostate, a dajjal, etc..." as we were all taught and made to memorize.

I realized that his love and respect for the true religion of Islam were complete.

For long centuries, Muslims:

• LIVED THE INVENTED RELIGION,
• BECAUSE OF THIS, THEY REGRESSED,
• BECAUSE OF THIS, ALMOST ALL ISLAMIC LANDS WERE OCCUPIED BY IMPERIALIST CRUSADER WESTERN STATES AND
• WERE COLONIZED…

I REALIZED THAT Atatürk GRASPED all of this VERY WELL.

FOR THIS REASON, I LEARNED AND UNDERSTOOD THAT ATATÜRK:

• SAVED us Muslims FROM THE YOKE OF THIS FABRICATED RELIGION,
• SO THAT WE COULD LEARN AND LIVE THE REVEALED RELIGION IN THE QUR'AN,
• he carried out all those revolutions,
• he had Khodja Elmalılı Hamdi Yazır produce the QUR'ANIC EXEGESIS (Tafsir) for this purpose, and
• by doing many other beautiful and correct deeds,
• HE AIMED FOR our nation TO LEARN THE TRUTH OF THEIR RELIGION.

While reading and listening to Prof. Yaşar Nuri Öztürk on one hand, I also RE-read, researched, and REFRESHED my knowledge of our history on the other—especially the period of the Armistice of Mudros and the subsequent "Defense of Rights" (Müdafaa-i Hukuk), the National Struggle (Millî Mücâdele), the War of Independence (İstiklal Harbi), the founding of the Republic of Turkiye, and the process of putting it on track; in other words, our recent history of approximately 100 years.

The Ottoman state had signed the Armistice of Mudros and was OFFICIALLY TERMINATED by the crusader + imperialist Western states. 

Not long after the signing of this armistice:

• I relearned how ANATOLIA, including Istanbul, was occupied by imperialist crusader Westerners,
• How Izmir and the whole Aegean region were given over to Greek occupation,
• The betrayals committed by crusader imperialists in Anatolia to establish ARMENIA in the east and KURDISTAN in the southeast,
• In this way, I relearned that they had no intention of leaving even this Anatolian peninsula to us the Muslims—whether Turk, Kurd, or whoever.

I remembered how our War of Independence was won, and how Mustafa Kemal and his other close staff colleagues made such self-sacrificing efforts during this war.

I remembered the TREACHERIES committed by many DYNASTICIST RELIGIONISTbigots, primarily Sultan Mehmed VI Vahdeddin and Grand Vizier Damad Ferid, to prevent our War of Independence from resulting in victory.

I remembered how, during those most distressed and difficult times of our National Struggle and War of Independence, imperialist crusader England, the USA, and France armed the Armenians and Kurds in eastern and southeastern Anatolia, inciting them against the Turkish national army; how they TRIGGERED NEARLY 25 REBELLIONS AND UPRISINGS in Anatolia, especially among the Kurds, under the deceptions of "we want sharia" and "we want Independent Kurdistan"; and how they made Muslims kill Muslims and shed brothers' blood in these armed rebellions.

I remembered that DESPITE ALL THESE internal and external ACTS OF TREASON AND BETRAYAL, even after the State of the Republic of Turkiye was established by the grace of God through a victorious National Struggle and War of Independence, those same crusader imperialist infidels continued to incite KURDISH REBELLIONS, particularly in eastern Anatolia, and provoked both the Kurds and the "devil's saint" bigots (REACTIONARIES, mürteci)—the dynasticist religionists—to destroy/have the newly founded Republic destroyed.

Without further ado, let me state, my dear Brother;

The Republic of Turkiye was not established easily. With what great sacrifices was this state founded...?!?

And, unfortunately, both during the years of the National Struggle and War of Independence and the initial years of the Republic's founding, this country never saw a day of peace due to the threats of REACTIONARIES (the dynasticist religionist bigot REACTIONARIES) to return the Republic to a sultanate again, and the threats of SEPARATIST KURDIST ELEMENTS to divide the country.

From the very beginning, the Republic of Turkiye always felt these two threats (REACTIONISM/OBSCURANTISM, WHICH IS DYNASTICIST RELIGIONISM, and KURDIST SEPARATISM), and for this reason—WHETHER WE ACCEPT IT OR NOT, WHETHER WE DEEM IT REASONABLE AND LOGICAL OR NOT—it NEVER RELIED UPON or TRUSTED dynasticist religionists (reactionaries) and separatist Kurdist elements.

The primary culprits of this distrust are the reactionaries (reactionary bigots) and separatist Kurdists.

At this point, stating that I must criticize the religious people—or rather, the RELIGIONISTS—of the country, I say:

During the transition processes from the collapsed and fully occupied Ottoman state to the Republic of Turkiye, many qualified personages such as hadji effendis, hodja effendis, sheikh effendis, and religious (religionist) scholars, YES, took their place alongside Mustafa Kemal and his brothers-in-arms during the years of the Defense of Rights and the National Struggle/War of Independence, giving them SUPPORT and encouraging our nation toward bringing this total struggle for independence (full independence) to victory.

However, after victory and full independence were won and the Turkish Republic was established, just as Mustafa Kemal's close brothers-in-arms left and distanced themselves from him—some even forming an opposition front against him—the vast majority of those hadji effendis, hodja effendis, sheikh effendis, and religious scholars, who previously stood by him and did not withhold their support, also distanced themselves from and abandoned Mustafa Kemal; many even became opponents and even enemies.

During the period when efforts were to be shown to put the newly established Republic on track, to bring it to stability, and to rapidly save it from the state of burnt-down ruins, backwardness, poverty, misery, and deprivation it suffered through long Ottoman centuries and the years of WWI and the War of Independence (Full Independence); that is, at a time when Atatürk was in great need of their presence, support, and contributions in all these services, they abandoned him and left his circle empty with FLIMSY, ABSURD, FABRICATED, NONSENSICAL, and HOLLOW EXCUSES DERIVING FROM THE FABRICATED MUAWIYA RELIGION WHICH THEY HAD BEEN PROPAGANDIZING.

NATURE ABHORS A VACUUM…!

Thus, the circle of that noble man, Atatürk, was filled with all sorts of atheists, enemies of religion, Masons, Sabetaists, and unidentified, ill-omened individuals.

LET US NOT FORGET that there are many PATRIOTIC intellectuals who hold the firm conviction that Atatürk was gradually made ill by these unidentified, ill-omened individuals and was killed during his illness process by DELIBERATELY (INTENTIONALLY) applying wrong treatments.

Yet, it was exactly during this period that Atatürk needed those hadji effendis, hodja effendis, sheikh effendis, and religious scholars, and expected them to help him in state and national affairs.

LET US NOT FORGET that in later years, there were many who appeared religious (religionist) who expressed regret in their memoirs with sadness for not helping Atatürk during this most critical period.

In fact, if those hadji effendis, hodja effendis, sheikh effendis, and religious scholars had stood by Atatürk, supported him, and had not condemned or forced him to work with all sorts of atheists, enemies of religion, Masons, Sabetaists, and unidentified, ill-omened individuals, the country would not have fallen into these current pitiful states.

Despite all his good intentions, honesty, and integrity, Ismet (Inonu) Pasha, unfortunately, NEGLECTED and FAILED TO SUSTAIN both Atatürk's IDEAL of transitioning from invented religion to the TRUE REVEALED RELIGION IN THE QUR'AN, and his IDEAL OF FULL INDEPENDENCE after his passing.

Together with Adnan Menderes and those of a similar "mandate-seeking" (mandacı) mindset, and under the suggestions of feudal landowners and sheikhs, THEY CLOSED THE VILLAGE INSTITUTES, drew closer to the crusader imperialist USA, made us a member of NATO, and turned a blind eye as the USA reorganized our National Defense, National Education, and National Intelligence according to its own imperial goals and ambitions, stripping them of their national identity...

There are those who write and say that during the turmoil when Istanbul was occupied by the victorious states of WWI and the idea of entering the mandate administration of one of the occupying states was seriously defended by some Turkish state officials and intellectuals, Ismet  (Inonu) Pasha was also a supporter of the mandate idea—and this is an undeniable fact.

I think that after Atatürk's death, Ismet (Inonu) Pasha's old mandate-seeking leanings recurred, and under the difficult world conjuncture conditions following WWII, he felt the weakness to take refuge in the Western Alliance (NATO)—a kind of new version of mandate-seeking—and for this reason, he invited the USA.

To correctly read and evaluate Ismet (Inonu) Pasha and the post-Atatürk People’s Republican Party (CHP), I RECOMMEND you read Prof. Dr. Yaşar Nuri Öztürk's small but eye-opening book titled “THE CHP AFTER ATATÜRK; THE ADVENTURE OF MISREADING THE ERA.”

I THINK the background of the Turkish State’s constantly keeping REACTIONISM AND KURDIST SEPARATISM on its agenda as the TWO most important INTERNAL THREATS since its founding years was caused by those hadji effendis, hodja effendis, sheikh effendis, and religious scholars leaving Atatürk alone during the first founding years of our Republic when he greatly needed them and their services/support; and not stopping there, but constantly opposing his revolutions and even developing hostile attitudes.

Because these people, who were accepted—or rather, assumed to be—representatives of religion, were UNFORTUNATELY NOT REPRESENTATIVES OF THE TRUE REVEALED ISLAM IN THE QUR'AN, BUT, THEY WERE MERELY ORDINARY PROPAGANDISTS OF THE FABRICATED MUAWIYA RELIGION, they COULD NOT UNDERSTAND ATATÜRK'S SINCERITY REGARDING RELIGION; moreover, they became ENEMIES to him and the system he established and CONSTANTLY POSED A THREAT.

And because we were followers of the PROPAGANDISTS of this FABRICATED MUAWIYA RELIGION, we became the SUBJECT, TARGET, ADDRESSEE, AND DEFENDANT of the Turkish State's same THREAT PERCEPTIONS.

The situation may be OUTLINED as such.

I must state immediately that from my childhood onward, I too LIVED IN REACTIONARY ENVIRONMENTS AND TOOK MY PLACE IN THE RANKS OF THE REACTIONARIES (mürteci).

I understood, albeit too late, why the Hizmet Movement—in which I spent decades as a devoted member—could never provide a sense of trust to the Turkish State.

Fethullah Gülen, just like his self-proclaimed master Said Nursi, never embraced or loved Mustafa Kemal and his revolutions. Because Fethullah Gülen, just like his master Said Nursi, was merely AN ORDINARY PROPAGANDIST OF THE FABRICATED MUAWIYA RELIGION. 

For decades, he organized cadre-building activities to seize the state by infiltrating its most critical bureaucracies—primarily Defense, Security, and the Judiciary—down to their capillaries through "confidential" (mahrem) methods. 

In the final turn of his decades-long personal ambitious adventure locked onto this goal, he SAW NO HARM in sacrificing the members, lovers, and sympathizers of the Hizmet Movement—which had reached hundreds of thousands, even much higher numbers, the vast majority of whom HAD NO KNOWLEDGE of what was happening—to the IMPERIAL AMBITIONS & PROJECTS of the crusader imperialist USA directed at our country 😞…

And while Fethullah Gülen could have very easily clarified all this turmoil he caused while alive and could have prevented the victimization of hundreds of thousands of Hizmet members, he PASSED AWAY WITH ALL HIS SECRETS without speaking. 

What a pity and what can we say…?

I realized, learned, and understood all these bitter truths during my painful process of internal accounting, self-criticism, questioning, and inquiry after my forced arrival in Switzerland. 

MAY GOD FORGIVE ME…

Said Nursi and his primary disciples, all kinds of Sufi sheikhs, Islamists, political Islamists, and from Adnan Menderes onward, all of the right-wing, nationalist, "sanctity-defender" (mukaddesatçı), conservative, and religionist politicians—including Necmeddin Erbakan and his current immoral and corrupt political Islamist apprentices—Nurcus, Süleymancıs, Fethullah Gülen, and SIMILAR RELIGIONIST BIGOTS have always and constantly been, and created, a REACTIONARY THREAT against this Turkish state; they were perceived as such, and they WERE NEVER TRUSTED.

In the same way, all Kurdist (not Kurdish!) elements engaged in Kurdist separatism, just like the REACTIONARY THREAT, unfortunately, did not PROVIDE TRUST to the State of the Republic of Turkiye, and for this reason, they WERE NEVER TRUSTED.

It is still the same today; both the dynasticist reactionaries and the separatist Kurdists still do not provide trust, and they are not trusted.

We are obliged to learn all these bitter facts, my dear brother.

The goal of the PKK is not Kurdish rights, the Kurdish language, Kurdish culture, Kurdish traditions, etc.; it is point-blank to divide Turkey and establish an independent Kurdistan.

No matter what you say or how you evaluate it; the PKK is the voluntary pawn and voluntary subcontractor of the imperialist crusader West and of ZIONIST ISRAEL, which has made the "Promised Land" (Arz-ı Mev’ud) its ULTIMATE IDEAL.

We must all see this DIRTY game. We all have to come to our senses.

I am not a Turkist, an Ataturkist/Kemalist, or anything like that; I am not a state-sanctifier either. 

I am a TURK WHO IS A RATIONALIST and a QUR'ANIC MUSLIM. 

That is all…

However; I highly value and take seriously the sayings:

“IF THE HOMELAND IS AT STAKE, THE REST IS minute DETAILS” (Sözkonusu vatan ise gerisi teferrûâttır)

and

“EITHER THE STATE AT THE HELM, OR THE RAVEN ON THE CORPSE” (Ya devlet başa, ya kuzgun leşe).

Praise be, I am not so foolish as to fail to UNDERSTAND THE IMPERIAL AMBITIONS & INTENTIONS and PROJECTS of the imperialist crusader West and Zionist Jewry directed at our country. 

May you not be either…!

As long as Muslim Kurds support this divisive PKK, this matter will not end. 

As long as Kurdists do not give up the pipe dream of an independent Kurdistan, there will be no peace or tranquility in the country. 

They say the path of reason is one. They are INDEED right.

No power can OVERTHROW OR DIVIDE the Republic of Turkiye. 

LET THOSE WHO WANT TO DIVIDE IT WATCH THEIR STEP. 

And let those who support those wanting to divide it abandon this heedlessness and lack of awareness; let them tremble and return to their senses! 

Why this pushing and shoving, why this clamor and fuss, my dear brother, when we could well live together as brothers in peace and tranquility…?

With its rights and wrongs, this is what I think as of this moment.

With my love and respect,

Abdullah Erdemli

Lucerne - Switzerland