Can Gülen and Khomeini be compared?

Justice Minister Bekir Bozdağ said, “Fethullah Gülen was planning to stage a return like Khomeini.”

If one year ago, anybody from the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) had said, “Fethullah Gülen is planning to stage a return like Khomeini,” then Bekir Bozdağ would have snapped at him, “Come on now, you secular paranoiac.”

It doesn’t matter whether Bozdağ or somebody from the CHP said it: Uttering the notion that Fethullah Gülen “would return to the country like Khomeini” is, before anything else, unfair to Khomeini and the Iranian Revolution.

The Iranian Islamic Revolution led by Khomeini was not a revolution staged by embedding prosecutors and judges in Iranian courts, by infiltrating the police organization, by making an alliance for 12 years with the Shah administration and by collecting files on corruption.

Whether you like it or not, the Iranian Revolution was a people’s revolution against the army, police, tanks and weapons of the Shah. It overthrew the Shah, who was said to be “invincible.”

Identifying the operation conducted by prosecutors who were removed by relocation orders and by police chiefs who were jailed through legal arrangements with the Iranian Revolution means that one has lost his or her discernment. 

It is not possible to return like Khomeini by infiltrating the courts, the police and by tapping phones.
Also, when not even 1 percent of the population of Turkey has changed its votes because of Fethullah Gülen, comparing the Gülen Movement with the Iranian Revolution could, in a way, be considered a compliment.

Hey, Bozdağ, are you one the parallel structures, or not?

Predictions

I would like to say that it will be very hard for the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) to pass the electoral threshold.

I find Burhan Kuzu extremely sympathetic.

I feel quite distant from the show Doğu Perinçek is putting on.

I am criticizing Central Bank Gov. Erdem Başçı because he has not said, “Look, I am leaving. Do what the hell you want.”

I think that the admiration Saudi Arabia has for the United States is 10,000 times more than the one it has for Turkey.

I have the opinion that the time has come for Ferit Şahenk to completely withdraw from the media.
I have to say Zaytung is not as good as it used to be.

I predict that the radical left movement that came to power in Greece will not be able to do anything and will lead the country into decline in a short period of time.

 I am guessing that it will not be possible that Turkey will transform into a presidential system.

Denials from all

Ali Müfit Gürtuna has denied that he received an offer from a political party for the upcoming elections. Nazlı Ilıcak has not been made an offer either. Rutkay Aziz, Abdüllatif Şener and Tarık Akan have also denied that there was an offer.

The two deputy chairs of the Republican People’s Party, Mehmet Bekaroğlu and Ercan Karakaş, have called and said, “No. This is a lie; it is totally fictitious.”

Meanwhile, let me convey a piece of information to you: The CHP has made an offer to the former head of the Directorate of Religious Affairs (Diyanet), Professor Ali Bardakoğlu.

Six reasons why Arda threw away his cleats

First, he may have been provoked and was worked up. Second, he may have wanted to make a reference to the incident of “a mother throwing away her slipper.” Third, because he is a Mediterranean boy, he may not have been able to adjust to a cool-headed professionalism. Forth, well, maybe he attempted to show that he was a warrior of Fatih. Fifth, he may have wanted to attend an “anger management” course. Sixth, it could be the rage against exclusion in Europe.