The broadcasting of Sedat Peker, whose broadcasts were restricted by the UAE for a while, shows that a new perspective and equation is needed in order to understand what is going on. (Photo: Screenshot)
Sedat Peker’s social media messages have started again, and we are watching the deep silence about some of the allegations that prosecutors need to take action. As the silence increases with new allegations, it becomes necessary to look at what is happening from another angle and to establish a new equation. Just like in the solution scene of Yavuz Turgul’s movie “Hunting Season”, starring Şener Şen, Melisa Sözen and Cem Yılmaz: sometimes it is necessary to change the angle and set up a different equation to solve it.
Assumptions for different equation
Some assumptions are required to set up different equations.
one- If someone shouts “There is a fire” and flames and smoke are also seen, it means there is a fire. What you need to ask here is “Why did the fire start, who started it?” are not questions. First, “How do I put out the fire?” comes the question. This is also necessary to prevent the fire from spreading.
Firefighters extinguish, then investigate; To find out if it was an accident, negligence or intention. If it is intentional, it is tried to be solved by the help of the prosecutor and the police, who did it and why.
In other words, no matter who says “There is a fire”, “There is a murder”, or “There is a robbery”, it is essential to prevent what happened first, not to condemn the person who reported it.
2- In closed politics, nothing may be as it seems. Because, on the face of it, relations are secret, if not hidden, at least closed. It may not be obvious at first glance who is telling the truth, who is slandering, who is misrepresenting the truth with the lie, and who is the friend and who is the foe.
Instead of playing three monkeys, it takes fair and honest research, investigation to understand.
Honest research and the rule of law
Therefore, if Sedat Peker shouts “There is a fire” and smoke comes out of the place where there is fire, regardless of whether it is the leader of a criminal organization or a wingless angel; one- Whether there is a fire to be extinguished, 2- If there is, it is necessary to give priority to extinguishing the fire. Let alone the rule of law, this is the requirement of even the rule of law.
This is not just about Sedat Peker’s claims. Likewise, it applies to the 17-25 December investigations in which a decision of non-prosecution was given on the grounds of a Fethullahist conspiracy. We still do not know which of those claims are lies and slander, which are true, and which are skillfully mixed. This is also true for the assassination of Necip Hablemitoğlu, which is before us these days. Speaking to journalist Can Bursalı, experienced security guard Cevdet Saral told the nationalist deep state elements of the Hablemitoğlu assassination. with the “false flag” operation For example, he suggested that it could be a Fethullahist instigation.
Many of Peker’s words turned out to be true, but which ones have been investigated so far?
Considering that the angle we have looked at so far may not be enough for us to see the whole picture, we may need a new, more accurately, supplementary equation.
New parameter for new equation
In higher mathematics, if the parameters you have are not enough for the number of equations you need to solve simultaneously, you create a virtual parameter and set up the matrix accordingly, then you reveal that parameter; Like him.
Let our new parameters be Turkey’s international relations and the economic crisis on the way to the election.
Then let’s set up a different matrix, put the parameters we have in different positions.
Peker, who supported the AK Party-MHP People’s Alliance by making Rabia and Gray Wolf signs with one hand before the 2018 elections, was acquitted in the hearing held shortly after Erdoğan’s election, for the words of the Peace Academics to “take a shower with their blood”.
The economic balances began to deteriorate when US President Donald Trump’s Twitter hits on Turkey and President Tayyip Erdoğan due to the Pastor Brunson crisis and then the S-400 purchase from Russia, combined with Erdoğan’s policy of “interest is the cause of inflation”.
Changing balances
In 2020, at the special request of MHP leader Devlet Bahçeli (convicted of insulting President Erdoğan), the leader of the criminal organization Alaattin Çakıcı was included in the Covid-19 release and was released. In the list of criminal organizations of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Çakıcı was in the first place and Peker was in the third place after Sedat Şahin.
Peker’s star in power began to fade. He went to Montenegro, from there to North Macedonia in 2020, when an investigation was opened against him for a crime report. Meanwhile, he published a series of videos between April 15 and May 20, but they were not directly targeting AK Party relations. He escaped to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) while he was going to be arrested in Skopje in January 2021 and extradited to Turkey via Kosovo.
Relations between the UAE and Turkey have been at the bottom since the July 15, 2016 uprising. Erdogan saw Crown Prince (now President) Mohammed bin Zayed as the one who fed the Fethullahists behind July 15. (Likewise, relations with this country were at a low point, as he blamed Crown Prince Mohammed bin Selman for the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi Arabian Consulate General in Istanbul in 2018.)
Videos that shook Turkey
In this international atmosphere, Peker started his video broadcasts from Dubai on YouTube on May 2, 2021. In this first video, the propaganda team, known for its closeness to the AK Party, was targeting the Pelikan Group and targeting names such as Mehmet Ağar and Mübariz Mansimov. The videos that follow are getting heavier, from Minister of Interior Süleyman Soylu to journalists who engage in bribery, from Sezgin Baran Korkmaz, who is still imprisoned in the USA, to Demirören Group, from Yalıkavak, Bordum. bribery hotels in many claims found. On June 6, he said that the next video is about President Erdogan.
This was a turning point. Peker was unable to broadcast that video and announced on 20 June that the UAE authorities asked him to stop broadcasting. The relationship was established over the intelligence-security services. As a matter of fact, the UAE’s National Security Advisor was coming to visit Erdogan in Ankara on August 18, and on November 24, the Crown Prince was preparing the ground for Erdogan’s visit to Dubai on February 14-15, 2022.
At the beginning of April, the Ministry of Justice handed over the Khashoggi murder case to the Saudis and dropped it. Erdogan went to Saudi Arabia this time on April 28.
new equation new claims
Meanwhile, the Russia-Ukraine war broke out, energy prices had put the economy, which was already going bad, into more trouble, the cost of living had begun to shake the AK Party, and inflation had begun to break records after a record.
It has been talked about that the economy will not be able to hold the 2023 election without a large amount of foreign funding. In the months of May-June, even before the Russia-Akkuyu issue came to the fore, it was started to talk that the economy would recover with 55 billion dollars invested in Turkish banks from abroad, wages would be raised 100 percent at the beginning of January, and Erdogan would win the election. 55 billion dollars account 20 were expected to come from Saudi Arabia and 10 from the UAE.
Sedat Peker kept silent during this process. However, after Erdogan’s trips to the UAE and Saudi Arabia, he started to send messages on Twitter, sometimes with statements to his lawyer or some journalists, starting from the end of April.
If it’s the night of August 13 From Deli Sergeant’s account He aired a series of 75 tweets. This time, he was touching the names around the President.
Questions, questions
Was there a change in the balances between Ankara and Dubai?
Would there be problems balancing that 55 million?
Was the UAE (including the oligarchs) disturbed by the diversion of Russian money from Dubai to Istanbul?
Did monarchies such as the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Qatar, which could not be independent of the US-based Western financial system, entered a wait-and-see mode 8-10 months before the elections in Turkey?
It would be shallow to make sense of all this as Sedat Peker spoke with the instruction. Anyone whose speech is blocked continues to speak when the pressure is relieved; This is not against the normal flow of life.
But our current perspective, the current equation, does not allow us to fully understand what is going on.
So let’s change our perspective a little bit like in Hunting Season.
Let’s set up a new equation, a new matrix; maybe so we can understand.