Now, eighty-six years later, one can finally answer Mustafa Kemal. Thanks to Recep Tayyip ErdoÄŸan, the USA, your CIA, the European Union, and plenty of dollars filling the gaping pockets of politicians, hack journalists, outright traitors and, as Mustafa Kemal would say, selected "ignoramuses there IS one such nation: Mustafa Kemal's Turkey, today's Turkey. Indeed, today's Turkey has turned its back on the West. But its quest? The inept government seems incapable of answering that question. Beyond personal corruption, fantastic plundering, fabulous enrichment, suppression of women, extrajudicial imprisonments, destruction of the natural environment, and general lawlessness, no plan has emerged during its seven-year term in office. The 15 October 2009 article, "How Turkey Was Lost , in the Jerusalem Post says it all.(2)
And you have helped too, Mr President. Were you surprised by ErdoÄŸan's antics in Davos? By his attempt to storm your Secret Service barricade outside the hotel in New York City? By his sudden ranting about Israel? Mr President, you shouldn't be, for this is the quality of the man. You proceed with the likes of him and his people at your, and our, peril. In my earlier letter to you I wrote: "Do not be deceived Mr. President, this government neither serves you, nor the Turkish people. In the name of so-called democracy, it serves itself. Nothing more need be said.
Today, on all counts, Turkey and the people of Turkey have failed. They have failed Mustafa Kemal Atatà rk. They have failed themselves. Else how could they so submissively tolerate a government formed by the likes of Erdoğan and his AKP. Mr President, on 29 October 2009, you will see the personification of this profound, tragic failure in the normally scowling face of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, painfully contorted into his "White House smile!
Mr President, quite simply, Turkey has become an Islamic fascist state. Cameras and listening devices abound. People are identified for arrest by the government-controlled press. Even I, Mr President, have been fingered by a newspaper hack widely known to be a mouthpiece for the president of the republic.(3) Mr President, this lawless government has trashed the constitution. Jails are loaded with patriots "journalists, scientists, physicians, writers, retired military officers, businessmen "all opposed to the destruction of the legacy of Mustafa Kemal Atatà rk. Mr President, there is no significant difference between the doings of this government and what went on in Germany in the early Thirties, or in Pinochet's Chile in the Seventies. None!
Lawless politicians! Lawless judges! Lawless prosecutors! Lawless police! Lawless! Lawless! Lawless"
On 29 October 2009, the 86th anniversary of the founding of Republic of Turkey, you, Mr President, will meet with the Turkish prime minister. Perhaps this will be the day you both announce the birthday of the Islamic Republic of Turkey. Given what has happened to Turkey at the hands of the United States since Atatà rk died, nothing would surprise me. And nothing would please Erdoğan more. And you, Mr President, should know.
Sincerely yours,
James (Cem) Ryan, Ph.D.
Istanbul, Turkey
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