Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım made a speech to the public in Ankara’s Kazan district, where on 15th of July the base used by the coup attempters as central command named Akıncılar (Aqinji) Base is located. He said in his speech that the Akıncıllar Base and some barracks were going to be closed. Binali Yıldırım who answered the questions of the journalists after the speech, used these statements: “Akıncı Air Base will be closed. We will also close the places where there are tanks, armoured vehicles in the city; we will take them out of the city too. Wherever a tank got out, wherever an armoured vehicle got out, these places will be closed. There will be nothing in Turkey that can produce a coup. Not only suppressing coups; we are looking for every reason that will destroy even the probability of a coup, we will do whatever is necessary.”

Comment:

Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım gave a statement to the journalists after the speech he gave to the public in which he said that the Akıncı base was going to be closed. When a journalist asked what was to happen to the Incirlik Base, if it was also going to be closed, Binali Yıldırım said: “No, I didn’t say anything about the other.”

As it stands, you claimed that America was behind the coup, then why are you not closing America’s Base in Turkey, Incirlik? Yes, I also support the closure of the Akıncı Base. I find this decision appropriate and accurate but as long as you do not close Incirlik Base and deport American soldiers from Turkish soil, nothing will change.

You are saying that you are going to close all barracks where killer coup attempters came out with tanks and bombed the people that you want to relocate them outside the city. You keep saying, “What are the tanks doing on the streets of Istanbul, what the hell, are they doing on the streets of Ankara.” Yes, you are right, I concur? What are these tanks doing here? In the same manner, I am also asking this, what is America’s Chief of Staff doing in Adana and Ankara? How can this colonialist killer enter Turkey when merely two weeks have passed since the coup? You are saying that America is behind the coup, am I right? Then how serious are you of this statement?

Even you do not believe in your own words. Because you are aware that you made a strong coalition with America a long time ago. You know that America did not support this coup and you said this to the American representatives. You know that the real supporters of the coup were English-influenced secular generals and officers. You also know that these English-influenced officers use some soldiers and officers that are members loyal to the group of Gulen. You know that England exploits and uses this coup in order to destroy America’s politics and influence in Turkey. You see what this American-English conflict in Turkey is costing our people. Why are you hiding this fact from the people?

Never forget! It does not matter to the Muslims if the true perpetrators are America or England. Because they are both colonialists. But if you cannot see and show which nation is behind the coup, why they initiated the coup, who they work with and who they use; you will only be able to watch the interest war of the colonialists in Turkey. When the real enemy stands, you would only make their pawns and puppets your enemies.

As long as you do not close Incirlik Base where the jets that massacred Muslims in Syria and Iraq lift off from, closing the bases of the coup attempters will not matter whatsoever. You will not be able prevent further coups if you do not disclose this dirty and sly English politics that prospers from bloody chaos and tries to establish its rule in Turkey through their subcontractor secular Kemalist officers that have been present in the TSK (Turkish Armed Forces) since the establishment of the Republic. For the biggest blow/coup that the English inflicted upon Islam and the Muslims was the abolition of the Khilafah (Caliphate). The most violent blow/coup that was done in these lands was the abolition of the Khilafah in March 3, 1924. Yes, this was not a blow/coup done only to Turkey but a bloody blow to the whole Muslim world. The English are behind this coup. Because they were the ones who abolished the Khilafah after the Lausanne Conference. Just like the fist-full of Junta that attempted a coup in July 15^, 1924, a small elite abolished the Khilafah through a coup with suppression and force. Ataturk’s reforms were not done with consent of the Muslims, they were forced upon them.

So we should never forget this; we cannot take lessons from coups without seeing and knowing the colonialists who are behind the coup. We have understood who the real perpetrators are behind the coup, to prevent further coups and deport their ambassadors, agents from our lands. We have to shoulder the responsibility in restarting Islamic life by working for the reestablishment of Khilafah Rashidah (Caliphate) upon the method of the Prophethood. Only then will the Ummah be saved from American and English influence, purged from coup subcontractors and have a state that can provide prosperity and peace. Only then will these lands will be cleansed from coup attempters, terrorism and be purged from colonialists.

Mahmut Kar

Head of the Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir in Wilayah Turkey