now there is this bunch of people who have enabled the ruling party to top and they have fallen apart in recent times as Uncle Sam does not give a green light for success . They and the goverment were quietly squabbling behind the scenes , both sides are now getting vocal . To prevent more damaging fissures they had once again decided to ally themselves against the military , to maintain the facade if nothing else . Since the goverment generals are now "necessary for Uncle Sam to push us into Syria" , no more coup plotters are available to hunt down , hence the trial of the two remaining 4 star generals of the September 1980 coup . Both are over 90 and shaky old men . One reported sick , other reported a broken shoulder , both are in military hospitals .
and there is this guy who oozes class , soft spoken , courteous and knowledgeable , he was a leader of the militant right , he was on TV and reminded of the hysteria that overtook the country in the late 1970s when 20 people could be killed per day in political fighting . Will not exactly oppose his claim that out of 5000 people killed 3 thousands were Rightist and the remaining 2 thousands were Leftists . Was 9 the year the coup took place , then not being familiar with the context but daily listening to the TV reports accusing Anarchists wantonly killing people , ı would wait in horror for my father , a politically neutral construction worker , to come home in winter nights when it darkened so early and packs were out on the streets hunting for victims , innocents to kill . The only thing the coup did to me was the curfew , a policeman turned me around on my way to newspaper kiosk , probably there was no children's weekly to buy anyhow and it happened only once . Said the guy was reasonable this paragraph , yes ? Yeah , he warned the viewers to remember the jungle this country was back in the day and not to be too much "democratic" as the phrase gets to be understood these days . Not to let this trial go deep and try those who carried out the orders imposed by the coup leaders . My interpretion as his own words got a beaming smile from the TV host , who looks too young . Would doubt he was around in 1980 in a form to remember it now .
he -the former politician- would know the type of men they were sending out to streets to battle , right ? One guy widely known to be responsible for a massacre was in court on the second day of the trial accusing it was military that was totally guilty since all actions ended immediately on September 12 and all the terror was guided by the State to make the coup . Getting a retort from Leftists similarly in court to get revenge from the coup , that really abused Right and the Left , in quite equal proportions . Wonder if the Leftist who shouted murderer at the Rightist murderer had killed as many . There is no shame left in people , those who were in the forefront of terror , who organised and conducted it for their own dictatorial designs are now claiming they are democratic peaceloving whatevers . This tranquality , immediately in effect after the coup was explained by the former Right leader in a seemingly reasonable way . The Right had feared the Left would take over the country through the cracks of the democratic system and the Army wouldn't let it happen , so there was no reason to fight anymore while the Left had always seen the Armed Forces as an extension of American imperialism but their attempts at armed resistance were quickly crushed , a nearly a million strong army was not what the Leftists had been used to . So this sudden reversal wasn't the guilt of the State in its entirity .
what he pleasantly omits is that their Fuehrer hid in some bunker for quite a while and they kept their thugs off the streets as there were no guarantees that this would be an American coup , or rather could stay as one . A new generation has arrived in Turkey that attempts to forget that Jimmy Carter was in some theater when a pleased CIA agent rushed him to declare that it was "their" boys who made the putch .
probably because the lack of signal form Uncle Sam (for their further , now total dominance) encourage the opponents of the new generation to find heart and oppose them . One had the temerity to mention the Kevin Spacey in the Usual Suspects , with the line on devil's greatest success was convincing people that it didn't exist . It immediately became a shouting match . The bunch of people claim they are just concerned citizens without designs on the future of the country , strikes a raw nerve when something they use a lot is used against them .
so who is or was America's boy and who not ? Nothing in isolation and when the West first decided to push us South the fear of the Commies was enough . It didn't fully suit the Aramco streak in Washington who dreamed of controlling the whole lotta oil , Islamism - to be hijacked by the Gulf in due course - was pushed by the means of the Turkish State and Syria / Iraq were edged on by Turkish economic development , the centerpiece of it being the dams on Euphrates / Tigris as they are in English . Which of course were generally declared to be solely built so that we could cut the rivers on demand , to get them Arabs waterless . People like grand schemes where things suddenly fall in place in perfect harmony . Which would have been realised in 1974 had we been able to be defeated by the Greeks . Then we would be out of NATO in a rage , ready to be in a spat with the Arabs , the nearest secular ones who thought we were proxy Zionists anyways . It unnerved Iraqis , especially , that we could still bite . So when the grandly scheming and colloborating Iraqis came up with Saddam who thought Americans bended to oil irregardless of who owned it and he could get away with carving an empire , the first action being punishing the seperatist Kurds based here , under American supervision and Turkish idiotic following , it was a damn serious question whether we would fall like a house of cards when the fury hit us . And there was Iran , a threat to Gulf in aspirations of grandeur . And could always take Iraq in the flank . So immediately after America kinda proved to be some kind of a kitty in April 1975 , machinations got a freepass . In the following years while Americans were picking up the goverment generals by the Pavlovian reflexes of the military arms embargo when our planes had no wheels left , yes the rubbery circular stuff that also works in cars and trucks , a civil war was being built up in country , while the Shah lived on heroin or whatever oblivious to the Mullahs . Who won only because the Iranian Army was encouraged that it would soon pass , in a Turkish type semi-militarist dictatorship with elections they would do much better . Jimmy Carter stopped them from firing on the demonstators in a critical juncture , neverminding 2000 people had been killed up to then... The reward for the Iranian Airforce , the one for Humeyni from the immediate start , was to be the execution squads . For devout loyalty to the Shah .
so you think you are smart ?
something that pops up regularly these days is that the coup was delayed 2 years . Supposedly because the Turkish population had not been despaired enough to accept it . Yeah , right whatever . ı hear Iranians can be real slow . Only after they got themselves into their serious mess and we were "distracted" by the daily routine of 20 killed in political struggle and another 20 in road accidents , Saddam could strike Iran so that he wouldn't be taken in the flank and he had enough courage to do it only when a week passed after the coup in Turkey and the Americana appeared to stay . No risk of being taken on the front , if you know what ı mean . One thing ı should say about Saddam , the Kuwaitis were really stealing Iraqi oil ... April Glassby , was that the name of the then Ambrassador ?
stopping some mechanism for the day and "Gee, we are not after you." is no solution . Unlike the norm , people do not necessarily forget . We were supposed to wear the Arabs down , ı won't easily get why they had be strengthened in the first place . Can it be they were led to believe they were allowed to wear us down ? Especially when the button for that some mechanism is still there , to restart tomorrow .
world would be a much safer place if grand schemes were banned , eh ?
