How Many Games Have Been Played Over the Alevis?
There is another detail concerning the action plan against the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) and the Fethullah Gülen movement allegedly prepared in the General Staff's Operations Department that was overlooked.
This detail exposes the new game that was going to be played over the Alevis. The document, which was drafted in April 2009, mentioned placing information and documents during raids on "light houses" that would incite Alevi hostility.
Articles and books containing words of hostility toward Alevis were going to be placed in the homes during the raids to give the image that Fethullah Gülen was an Alevi enemy. After reading the news, you wonder, "How many games have been played over the Alevis?" The Alevis were going to be fooled with incorrect and fabricated news and were going to develop a stance against a large community with which they have friendly relations. Dark forces always saw the Alevi-Sunni conflict a ready tool to stir chaos in the country. Two local groups were made enemies against each other by provocative activities and the country was dragged into chaos with conflict. The dark forces utilized this conflict very successfully before the Sept. 12, 1980 coup. Hundreds of Alevi and Sunni citizens were killed in the unfortunate Maraş, Çorum and Sivas incidents. The conflict was the most common argument put forward to prepare the country for the Sept. 12 coup. Propaganda to embitter Alevis against the Sunnis and Sunnis against the Alevis was used and many bloody battles were planned ahead of the coup. There is benefit in explaining again a memory of mine. On April 14, 1978, Malatya Mayor Hamit Fendoğlu, who was supported by right parties, his daughter-in-law and his two grandchildren were killed in a bomb explosion, the perpetrator of which is still unknown today. The next day, word quickly spread that Alevis were responsible for the bombing. It was also claimed that the Alevis had poisoned the city's water and therefore no one was allowed to drink from the sink. People we had never seen before knocked on our door and everyone else's door sharing this rumor. We later found out that the water had never been poisoned and the news going around was a lie. It was also never discovered who was responsible for the bomb attack that killed Fendoğlu. We now understand that the sole purpose was to incite the public against the Alevis in order to accelerate the process leading up to the coup. But certainly the games being played over the Alevis did not end after the Sept. 12 coup. Whenever chaos was deemed necessary, another trap targeting Alevis was prepared and the main victims were always the Alevis. Many people suffered a loss in the July 3, 1993 Madimak provocation.
Unknown assailants opened fire from a taxi on three cafés belonging to Alevis in İstanbul's Gazi neighborhood on March 12, 1995. Protests and demonstrations were held in the area after the attack. When fire opened against the police, police responded with gunfire, killing 17 people and injuring several more. More events took place in Ümraniye on March 15 and four other people were killed in those events. Years later, the events in the Gazi neighborhood would make it into the Ergenekon indictment. The second indictment in the Ergenekon case assesses ties between Ergenekon and the Marxist-Leninist Communist Party (MLKP) concerning the Gazi incidents. Examination of the MLKP terror organization's conference documents reveal that the organization planned on becoming stronger by "starting a Turkish-Kurdish and Alevi-Sunni conflict." Focusing their attention on Alevi citizens, the organization tried to mobilize and provoke that segment of the society.
According to the testimony of a witness, referred to in the indictment by the codename Kehribar, the aim in the Gazi neighborhood attack was to "start an Alevi-Sunni clash" and "publications that an attack had been made against the Alevis allowed this provocative action to intensify and reach its goal."
In a raid conducted on the home of a Ergenekon suspect and the former Special Operations Unit deputy chief, İbrahim Şahin, police discovered that there were assassination plans against Alevi-Bektaşi Federation (ABF) Chairman Ali Balkiz and Secretary-General Kazim Genç.
In short, Alevis are among the main people victimized by dark forces in this country. Games are played over them and in the end they become the victims of these games.
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