The reason for the surprising silence is the sins that everyone gets a spoonful of.
Do you call it a community or an organization? It's up to you. But the news is still out there: The leader of the Süleymanists, İdris Naim, who escaped from the police, was caught while escaping in a vehicle assigned to Şahin. Not the minister of agriculture, not the minister of culture. İdris Naim Şahin is the former Minister of Internal Affairs. He was the most critical member of the government representing the security of the country. At one time, the police force, the coast guard and the immigration administration were all subordinate to it. If you asked us about our borders, he was protecting them. However, now the leaders of the organization who were transported with their flashing vehicles and the women brought from Belarus for prostitution are being asked about it. No doubt, he himself admits that he placed the vehicle the state gave him at the disposal of others. What's even more interesting is that the opposition cannot turn back to the government and say, "How did you hand over internal affairs to this man?" Because it's a "take one and hit the other" situation.
ERDOĞAN'S COMPANION
Let me explain.
İdris Naim Şahin was the interior minister of the 2011-2013 period, when the country was preparing for the Fethullahist coup with operations, conspiracies and plots. Of course, he owed his rise to this point to Erdoğan. Because in 1994, when Erdoğan became the president of Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality for the first time, he appointed Şahin, who was a bureaucrat in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, as the deputy general secretary in the municipality. They even founded TÜRGEV, which was targeted by the opposition, together in 1996. They became defendants together in the famous Akbil corruption case. Erdoğan always kept Şahin close from that day on. He was the founder of the AKP, a member of parliament for three terms, and the general secretary of the party for 10 years.
At that time, AKP and Fethullahists were in alliance against the opposition. İdris Naim Şahin was acting as the thickest stick of the alliance. Everyone remembers him saying to the citizen who said that they were happy to see him: "How do I know that you are happy? Come on, do a somersault, play and let me see." He really made the drums beat and the citizens dance. Very few people remember where the incident took place. When he supposedly went to investigate the region in Erzurum, after five TEDAŞ workers were victims of occupational murder, he did this while the nation was in mourning. The fact that he counted the citizens who died on the street by the bomb of the terrorist organization in the Red Crescent in 2011 as "customary" and spoke to the earthquake victims in the tent in Van as "You live in a palace" already showed how he viewed people.
He didn't find the pepper spray. But he advocated, in the most incredible way, that pepper spray should be used on anyone who speaks. When the opposition reacted to examples such as teacher Metin Lokumcu, who fell ill with pepper spray and died, he mocked people by saying "pepper spray is herbal, natural and harmless."
HE DECLARED EVERYONE A TERRORISM
In those years, Şahin was so easily labeling everyone as a terrorist...
When he banned the Republic Day march in 2012, he said that those who took to the streets were "members of an illegal organization". When the opposition objected to the speaker being imprisoned and said there was no freedom in the country, he made fun of them by saying, "If there is no freedom outside, why do you complain when you are arrested?" While the most terrorism cases in the world were filed in Turkey, he explained how he understood terrorism as follows: "Maybe he reflects it on the canvas by painting, or reflects it in his poetry by writing poems." When Professor Büşra Ersanlı was arrested by the KCK, she explained that she was the former sister-in-law of Doğu Perinçek, who was in prison for the Ergenekon conspiracy at the time, as evidence of terrorism against Ersanlı.
He was such a minister of interior...
He chose to say, "If they had been caught alive, they would have been tried for smuggling" for those killed in Uludere because they were thought to be PKK members. When the houses of Alevis were marked and the provocation was made, he explained the situation as "Children were influenced by a computer game."
FETO'S POLITICAL MAN
While İdris Naim Şahin was accusing everyone of being an organization or terrorism, it turned out that he was actually doing business with FETO. During the conspiracies, FETO had established an illegal structure within the Police, called the "C-5 office", which followed the "nationalists". The office, which was revealed to have been operating illegally for five years, became official with his signature on November 28, 2012.
As a matter of fact...
The black cat that came between Erdoğan and him was FETO. Because Şahin chose the side of FETO, not Erdoğan, during the 17-25 December period. He resigned exactly that day, December 25, 2013. He openly supported the organization: "If the so-called parallel structure made a coup, it is true, they are coup plotters. The parallel structure tried to strike a blow against ignorance. The parallel structure opposed oppression, it is true. (...) I know many of its members and police officers."
From that day on, he continued to do his best for them. When the General Directorate of Security took the first step by preparing a letter to follow FETO on June 25, 2014, it was Şahin who learned this from his parallel friends in the Police Department and announced it four days ago.
Not many people remember it. After resigning from AKP, he founded the Nation and Justice Party with the support of FETO. It was so obscure, so ineffective, so badly engraved in the nation's memory... He had to close down the party without holding a single rally or establishing a single organization.
HE BECAME THE MAN OF THE OPPOSITION
Such a name was İdris Naim Şahin, who went so far as to give his assigned vehicle to the leaders of the Süleymanist organization in order to kidnap them. For example, if they had been caught in my car, I would have been arrested. But in the system where even those who make jokes are put on trial, the quota of "Erdogan's former companion" and "knows too much" was applied to Şahin.
So, if you ask why our opposition couldn't address the fact that the police caught the escapees in the car of a Minister of Internal Affairs and used them as pick-ups even for prostitution, why couldn't they ask "Who knows what else he did?"... It's very simple. In 2019, İdris Naim Şahin almost became the common candidate of the CHP-İYİ Party alliance in Ordu. Meetings were held, and both parties praised Şahin in front of everyone. The republican base, which still had memories, reacted so strongly that they had to step back. Şahin was the candidate of the Saadet Party and lost the election. In 2023, İYİ Party nominated the first candidate in Ordu. He was not elected again.
In short, the reason why the opposition remained silent, like the government, in the scandal involving Erdoğan's former companion Şahin, was that they unsuccessfully tried to make an opposition politician out of Şahin a few years ago. If he reminded the government, "This man was your interior minister," the government would reply, "And then he was your companion." This was the reason for the mass silence ceremony.
Silence carries the burden of common sins.
