If you ask what is the luckiest day for a journalist, everyone might have a different answer. For me, it is the enormous chance that I am able to meet a president and a prime minister of a country on the same day.
At the 47th World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, I heard an interesting Turkey rumor.
The Ottoman administration exiled writer and poet Namık Kemal. The sultan who had sent him into exile remained “one of the other sultans.” Namık Kemal, on the other hand, became the “poet of the country” and “the poet of freedom.”
It was year 2000 and a coalition government was ruling made up of three parties, DSP-ANAP and MHP. The prime minister was late Bülent Ecevit and the Deputy Prime Minister was Devlet Bahçeli.
Look, the guy and the girl on the street, my brother and my sister, the politician in Ankara, take a look.
Let me explain the “first conspiracy” in the simplest terms possible. It was the precursor of the greatest conspiracy in Turkey’s recent history
What a beautiful night it was… What a nice dream… What wonderful hopes they were… The whole country was waiting for the decision from Brussels…
The first sign came when President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, on board of the Airbus A330 Presidential plane on his return from Pakistan, said, “We had friends and colleagues who thought highly of these scums [the members of the Fethullahist Terrorist Organization (FETÖ)]”.
I cannot say I was not surprised when I was invited by Şenol Göka, the general manager of Turkey’s state-owned broadcaster TRT, for the launching event of TRT World.
