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It is a tale<\/em><\/strong> \u00a0MACBETH<\/em><\/strong>, William Shakespeare<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A month ago I wrote that Turkey\u2019s relentless prime minister,\u00a0Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan, was either heading for a psychotic break or an incident or\u00a0statement so damaging to the nation that he would be forced to resign. If\u00a0incessant lying in the face of overwhelming, documented truth, if using incredibly inflammatory, divisive \u00a0language in public discourse, if impugning the motives of all who disagree with his bestial domestic policy towards peaceful protesters including nations, international organizations,\u00a0NATO, the European Union, and non-governmental organizations to name but a few, if repeated gassing and beating of unarmed, peaceful protesters, if sanctioning and encouraging police (and personal private thug) violence on the level of Pinochet\u2019s Chile and Hitler\u2019s Third Reich, if state-supported murder is glorified as self-defense, if he, the nominal leader of Turkey, stands shamed\u00a0and defamed before the eyes of the world (except for America) then he (or even a relatively normal egomaniac) would have left long ago. But he\u2019s still here. And for the right reasons, I was wrong. My excuse? This prime minister is not\u00a0a\u00a0normal egomaniac, nor is he a normal or even abnormal megalomaniac. He\u2019s a dead man talking. And talking. And talking. And talking. Gibbering nonsense allegations and conspiracy rubbish. Sex and beer in the mosques. Foreign meddlers. Interest rate lobby. Drunks. Looters. Coup-plotters. Vandals.\u00a0Plunderers. The Jews did it. His language, his thoughts, like a cancer consume him. His reality?\u00a0Zero.<\/p>\n He and his stooges still target people in the\u00a0government-controlled media; public defaming is a specialty of this government. Erdo\u011fan\u2019s strong-arm street goons, in the worst tradition of Adolph Hitler, now\u00a0assist his uniformed cop-goons in attacking peaceful protesters. And he is still\u00a0talking. But that is all. He has lost control of the nation. Even the Kurds have joined the resistance. The very thought of Tayyip is lustily booed everywhere, from graduation\u00a0ceremonies to race tracks. Athletic teams celebrate victories with Atat\u00fcrk flags. Actors\u00a0act out. Singers sing out. There is a frenzy of resistance music, art and\u00a0caricatures. Agitprop Turkish-style fills the air and it is wonderful to behold.\u00a0The brilliance of these kids is blinding. Normally rabidly partisan football\u00a0fans have united in one team. Call it RESISTANCE fired by their joint rabid\u00a0disgust with Erdo\u011fan. Slogans are everywhere: \u201cEverywhere Taksim, everywhere\u00a0resistance,\u201d \u201cWe are Mustafa Kemal\u2019s soldiers.\u201d They carry Turkish flags emblazoned with his image. \u201cTayyip resign!\u201d they shout. But Tayyip resists, too. But nothing works for Erdo\u011fan anymore. He cannot move about in public. His appearance at a public arena requires the government to purchase\u00a0all tickets to redistribute to staunch party members. No booing of Tayyip is\u00a0allowed! Verboten! Yasak!<\/p>\n Dead Man Talking\u00a0must deeply believe that he and the shameless American ambassador, one Francis Ricciardone, indeed share \u201cdemocratic values.\u201d That, and last week\u2019s express air delivery from the ever-generous America of 43 tons of pepper gas put a little pep in his step. FORTY-THREE TONS!<\/i><\/strong> The more to gas and blind you with my dear Turkish children. And the American ambassador calls this\u00a0“having\u00a0a conversation within your Turkish family.\u201d\u00a0Yes, a conversation, like this perhaps\u2026Would you like to catch a gas canister in your eye socket today, my dear? No? Well how about a little brain damage instead courtesy of that model of democratic values, the USA? No? \u00a0Well\u00a0then, how about some lunch? A few rubber bullets to chew on, perhaps? Or a\u00a0friendly whack on the ear by a cop\u2019s made-in-the-West club? Or a police boot in your mouth to aid digestion? Still no? Goodness, gracious, you protesters are\u00a0sure hard to please.<\/p>\n Such is the twisted mind of the American ambassador, a man who\u00a0lives by spewing honeyed words and putrid thoughts. He is America\u2019s talking\u00a0marionette. He is the source, the taproot of Dead Man Talking. He feeds him. An\u00a0earlier not-so-nice American ambassador, Eric Edelman, blew the whistle on the prime minister and his eight Swiss bank accounts. Dead Man Walking brushed it\u00a0off as nonsense saying he got his wealth from gifts at his son\u2019s wedding. Nice\u00a0son. Nice father. Isn\u2019t love grand?<\/p>\n Dead Man Talking. His delusions consume him. They will not leave\u00a0him. Nor can he leave us. Nor can he tell the truth, to himself, to anyone. His\u00a0delusions and the darkness, the sneaky darkness are his best friends. For him,\u00a0everything is at stake. He thought he had it made, this prime minister. His\u00a0friends, toadies all, never told him bad news. But it is in them, these\u00a0flatterers, that he will begin to see his end. He will see it in their eyes. One\u00a0evening he will see the streets again crowded with Turkish youth. He knows them\u00a0well. They\u2019re the \u201cdrunks and plunders\u201d who laughingly embrace his \u00a0slanderous\u00a0words. They are the future. And the prime minister\u2019s toadies know it. And the\u00a0prime minister should ask them this simple question: Am I still the future? And then watch their eyelids flutter and their eyeballs search for the door.<\/p>\n The prime minister\u2019s private police force has too many targets\u00a0in too many cities. Too many peacefully assembled targets that he can now attack\u00a0only at great peril to his already vanishing prestige. Anyway, America and Brazil and Israel cannot manufacture enough gas to stay the flood of people\u00a0willing to die for a new future. They, the people of Turkey, are disgusted by the hijacked, exploited Islam that suppresses human freedom and replaces true spirituality with money, money, and more money. The young people that the prime\u00a0minister so recklessly defames, these kids that appear on the television\u00a0screens, are saying that they want a real democracy. Not this Turkish one that\u00a0ruthlessly plunders the environment and enriches an equally ruthless\u00a0business-political oligarchy. They want a new system, one yet unknown. One that\u00a0Dead Man Walking and his ilk all over the world have not one iota of awareness.<\/p>\n The kids want one that cedes REAL power to the REAL people, all of them. One\u00a0that controls the overwhelming greed inherent in this dying capitalistic system.\u00a0One that remedies the materialistic and intellectual corruption that\u00a0 propels\u00a0nations to kill and plunder. One that destroys forever imperialism in all its formulations that has always ravaged the planet. One that truly emancipates the\u00a0people from the yoke of the religious mongering tyrants and their effete,\u00a0cunning western backers. One that enables all people to clearly distinguish (and\u00a0separate) their spiritual beliefs from their politics. No more conniving CIA Factbooks disclosing country-by-country religious breakdowns. No more religious\u00a0markers on identification cards or any official or governmental form.\u00a0Spirituality is from the heart, not from a piece of\u00a0paper.<\/p>\n It\u2019s Hitler-time in the Berlin bunker. And the dimensions of the\u00a0full horror visited upon long-suffering Turkey over the past ten years will soon\u00a0be revealed. What will Dead Man Talking shout about then? \u00a0Will anyone listen? His toadies? His media? His police? His army? His rich wedding guests? What kind of a tale will he tell? What is the sound of no hands clapping?\u00a0What is the fury?<\/p>\n Cem Ryan, Ph.D. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" But he\u2019s still here. And for the right reasons, I was wrong. My excuse? This prime minister is not a normal egomaniac, nor is he a normal or even abnormal megalomaniac. He\u2019s a dead man talking. And talking. And talking. 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\n Told by an idiot, full of sound and\u00a0fury,<\/em><\/strong>
\n Signifying nothing.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n
\nIstanbul
\n1 July 2013<\/p>\n