Last sentences of a murdered man: “Yes, I see myself in a pigeon's apprehensiveness, but I know the people in this country don't do anything against pigeons. Pigeons sustain themselves in the innermost of cities, even among human crowds. Yes, a little anxiously, but at least that much in freedom”.1 His name: Hrant Dink. Charged three and a half years ago, because he said: “I am not a Turk. I'm a Turkish citizen. But I'm Armenian”. This was seen as 'insulting Turkishness', which is forbidden according to Article 301 of the Turkish Criminal Law
Hrant Dink: killed in Istanbul, three and a half months ago.
The reason: he passed some borders with his ideas.
The killer: a seventeen years old boy.
Behind the assassination: deep state, or... just the state.
The reason: he passed some borders with his ideas.
The killer: a seventeen years old boy.
Behind the assassination: deep state, or... just the state.
The murderer and some figures around the assasination were put on trial. But today, some documents and evidences about the assasination, maybe the most important ones, were destroyed by the prosecutor, because it contained top secret files.
Maybe it sounds normal to many, but isn't 'top secret files' actually a very strange term?
The Turkish state's definition for this term is: 'Knowledge and documents, which could be dangerous for state's security, national existence and unity, constitutional order and international relations, when owned and known by those who are not competent for it.'
Who are not competent for it? Who are they? Those who chose the top? Those who elected the government? If we hold the most simple definition of democracy, there should be no place for 'top secret files'. Containing 'top secret files' means a lack of democracy.
Finally, who trusts those who know and own these 'top secret files'? Maybe these 'top secret files' are the key for those who are behind the assassination, the deep state, or... just the state.
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