Witch hunt -- in the name of who and what?

Yavuz Baydar

…The AKP, along with its media and the Kemalists, agree that both the police and the judiciary have been infiltrated by people affiliated with the Hizmet movement. Let us assume that this is true. Take, then, the concrete example of 9th Chamber of the Supreme Court of Appeals, which unanimously upheld the prison sentences in the Operation Sledgehammer secularist military coup case last year. There were five judges and four reserves in the department. If the anti-Hizmet reasoning is correct, we must assume that all those judges are so-called Gülenists. If so, then prove it and convince us; on every level, I stand ready.

Paranoia and frenzy are at such high levels that nobody sees a problem anymore, even if the witch hunt devastates the state of the judiciary, tarnishes law enforcement and poisons society.…

Excerpted from author's article published on Today's Zaman, 14 January 2014, Tuesday