In the third great war of division of the Middle East waged by global capital, the identities of those who offer unconditional support for the redesign of the region are no longer hidden behind a smokescreen as before; on the contrary, every attack, every massacre and every moment of political rupture makes their true faces more visible.
themselves “analyst”, “commentator”, “journalist” or “expert” In reality, these figures, who try to legitimize themselves with fancy adjectives such as "the war", have become volunteer soldiers of a propaganda army that acts as a subcontractor for imperial projects, feeds on the chaos created by the war, and has turned into the apparatus of sects and political Islamist organizations. The motivation of these groups is not the truth; it is to produce a discourse shaped according to the ideological needs of the government, to turn every lie into an opportunity, every attack into a career step and every distortion into a show of loyalty.
Hiding behind titles obtained through fake exams, Prof., Assoc., Dr. These pseudo-academics, who use such titles as "academics" as a shield, form the backbone of a group that builds careers on flattery and cronyism. These circles, who confuse professional ethics with character erosion, see the academy not as a place of knowledge production, but as a place where they can reap the privileges of being close to the government.
Their concern is not scientific coherence; it is to collect bonuses from every sentence that pleases the government, to rise one step higher with every attack and to turn every distortion into a show of loyalty. Therefore, instead of defending the truth, they produce an ideological fog that covers the truth; instead of enlightening social consciousness, they take it upon themselves to keep it in the dark.
The contradiction that an institution like Cumhuriyet, which has historically survived with the support of enlightened, laboring and poor peoples, has fallen into today is much more thought-provoking. When it comes to the Kurdish people, Kızılbaş-Alevis or the forces of Democracy, the language of the newspaper changes in an instant; the critical stance is replaced by statist reflexes, sometimes even competing with fascist rhetoric.
The opposition forces targeted in the attacks in Aleppo, despite the international terrorist declaration of organizations such as HTS, which was recruited by the Islamic-terrorist squads and sectarian structures nurtured by global capital and Erdogan-Gülen fascism for years. “terrorists cleared” is not journalism; it is the reproduction of the state mind. This language is not just a news language; it is also a repackaged, modernized version of the official ideology.
Cumhuriyet's use of this language, followed by Sözcü newspaper's reiteration of the same discourse, reveals once again how a large section of the media is actually fed from the same ideological pool. Not content with this, channels like Halk TV and Sözcü TV are the carriers of a similar hypocrisy.
themselves “democratic”, “populist”, “enlightened” These channels, which advertise themselves as "The Kurdish People", serve to reproduce the official ideology in society by constantly opening their screens to fascist parties that are hostile to the Kurdish people, Kızılbaş-Alevis and the forces of democracy. The program producers are using these people “academician” or “politician” They legitimize public enmity by presenting it under the label of "hatred against the people"; they mediate the circulation of hatred for hours on live broadcast. Thus, the media ceases to be a space for democratic debate and becomes one of the ideological apparatuses of the state.
Moreover, while doing so, they are trying to garner social sympathy by producing a discourse of victimization through the pressure of RTÜK. In reality, however, they have become voluntary actors in a media order that does not go beyond the boundaries drawn by the system and the state, and serves the reproduction of the status quo under the mask of democracy. The open supporters of Erdoğan-Gülen fascism are already known; it is not surprising what they write and draw. The real problem is the lies created by those who appear to be opposition and reproduce the same language as the fascists. With these lies, they function to paralyze social opposition, weaken the common struggle of the peoples and strengthen the ideological hegemony of the state.
There is also a group of people who think that producing content on YouTube and making money from it is political analysis. Levent Gültekin, one of the most visible examples of this group, is a renegade Kurd and another version of the ideological molds produced by cults and political Islamists.
His systematic attacks against the forces of democracy, Kızılbaş-Alevis and the Kurdish people; he creates space for himself by making statements that are pleasing to the government. His arrogance giving advice to the opposition; his personal inconsistencies “neutrality” attempts to disguise it with a mask have now gone beyond an ordinary media figure. This figure does not produce political analysis, but political manipulation and persists in committing despicable acts. So what are you to the murderous ISIS, Taliban, Hamas and HTS rapists, mass murderers, beheaders, and criminals who sell women captured in the market?
For someone who was molded in cult circles since his youth and shaped by the ideological codes of political Islam, today “independent commentator” is only a continuation of a false career and a strategy of infamy. People protesting against the Aleppo massacre in Diyarbakir “What do you care, are they your relatives, uncles, uncles?” "I am not a renegade like you, people are not renegades like you. However, people are not renegades like you; they can show sensitivity against massacres and use their right to protest as per democratic practices. For this, they do not need permission from a pitted mentality like yours. People have a conscience; you only have an interest account guided by algorithms.
When people react against massacres and bloodshed, do they need your permission? Who are you to keep talking such nonsense? People need to take DND tests to show their democratic practices. The fact that you are disturbed by the reactions rising in different parts of the world against the massacres of HTS clearly shows on which ideological ground you stand. Selecting events and facts and taking advantage of the YouTube algorithm is the digital version of immorality and the most visible form of lack of character. This attitude is not only a personal decay; it is also an ideological poison that feeds social decay.
Levent Gültekin is so enraged that while every country in the world opposes the massacre in Aleppo and the inhumane practices of the Islamic-Terrorist organization HTS in Syria, the target of the attack is the Kurdish people and the democratic reactions in Diyarbakir, the relatives of the opposing peoples. “What do you care, what are they to you?” His outburst shows that the people of Diyarbakır have become so depersonalized that they have even forgotten that they are Kurds. Because when a renegade has no belonging of his own, he considers it his duty to be hostile to people's belongings.
As always, Kurds, Kizilbash-Alevis and the forces of democracy are the ones that these types, who have a personality problem to the extent of denying how the Middle East has been drenched in blood by the powers formed by Islam-terrorist organizations and the sects that feed them, have been riding on.