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Back'Political foot'???
'Political foot'???
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Cumhuriyet16 minutes agoPolitics2 min readTürkiyeView original

'Political foot'???

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  • The crises that emerged after 2007 under the AKP government and the coup attempt of July 15, 2016 are discussed.
  • The subjects were the non-publication of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey Investigation Commission report for which Erdoğan apologized, the discussions about the State of Emergency and the 2017 referendum, the emphasis on networks and organizations in the Minister of Justice's speech on November 3, 2026, and the arrest of Fatma B.

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Why It Matters

The article deals with the crises that emerged during the AKP rule, especially after the election of Abdullah Gül as President in 2007, and the military coup attempt of July 15, 2016 as a result. There are also discussions about the non-publication of the report of the Investigation Commission established in the Turkish Grand National Assembly, the declaration of the State of Emergency and the 2017 referendum.

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During the AKP's rule, and especially after Gül's election as President in 2007, important crises emerged arising from the ideology of "State equals Party, Party equals Leader".

The biggest of these was the "July 15, 2016 Military Coup Attempt", which occurred as a result of the Gülen Community, later called FETO/PDY and declared a terrorist organization, dominating the bureaucracy, education, economy, media, judiciary, security and army.

In his speech on August 3, 2016, Erdoğan stated that they realized the face of the Community structure too late and said, "We were seriously mistaken. May God and my nation forgive us," and apologized and acknowledged that the Government had a share in the strengthening of the "Community".

However, although the report of the "July 15 Coup Attempt Investigation Commission" established in the Turkish Grand National Assembly following this incident was submitted to the Presidency together with the dissenting opinion written by the CHP, it was not officially published on the grounds that it was not submitted to the Presidency of the Turkish Grand National Assembly within the prescribed period and a full consensus could not be reached:

Thus, the "Political Leg" of "FETO's Military Coup Attempt" remained in the dark.

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Using this coup attempt as a justification, the Government declared a State of Emergency on July 20 and declared the "Presidential Government System", also called the "Personality Regime", in the referendum on April 16, 2017, with the votes cast against the law being counted.

Prof. The single-man regime, which Ersin Kalaycıoğlu calls "Neo-Patrimonial Sultanism", dragged the country into the biggest robbery in its political history and the "Fund Fraud" emerged.

In his speech on November 3, 2026, the Minister of Justice emphasized "network", "organization" and "political profiles" as follows:

The existence of a network that infiltrated our high-level control mechanisms...

The names within this organizational structure...

The purpose of this network is...

Within this organizational structure... .

..all the connections of an organized structure identified...

...legal proceedings have been and are being carried out against bureaucratic names, real and legal persons, and political profiles, from the highest level to the lowest level, who are involved in criminal structuring in our fund market.

Although many names of "political profiles" that seem to be "involved" in the robbery committed by this structure called "organizational structure" and "network" are circulating directly or in the context of family relations, only former Minister and AKP Deputy Chairman Fatma B. S. Kaya has been arrested for now.

However, it was announced that there were some "political profiles" among those who supported those who committed this robbery and benefited from it.

Now the public expects the "Political Leg" of this robbery, that is, the names on these lists, to be announced and, of course, to be tried.

What to Watch

AI outlook — possibilities, not facts

  • The names of other 'political profiles' will be announced and legal action will be taken.

    Likely · Within weeks

  • More information will emerge about the 'political leg' of the July 15 coup.

    Possible · Within months

Open Questions

  • Why wasn't the GNAT Investigation Commission report officially published?
  • Who are the other 'political profiles' within Shabeki?
  • Will legal proceedings be taken against other names after the arrest of Fatma B. S. Kaya?

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This article was originally published by Cumhuriyet.

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