An Object Is Approaching

It is high time to recall that famous axiom of the intelligence world: "Whoever found the listening device, put it there." The person who discovers the most secret device in a room without anyone knowing is, in fact, the scriptwriter who orchestrated when and how that device should be "found."

Brotherhood of Method

While the self-sacrificing people of the Hizmet Movement pay the price in prisons, in exile, or in the dark waters of the Meriç, there must be a rational explanation for some people to instantly diagnose every objection as an "intelligence move" from behind their comfortable screens. How close to that kitchen is a mind that can code even the smallest self-criticism as "coming from the regime's kitchen"?

What we are witnessing here is a silent but perfect "brotherhood of method" established by two different statu quo for their own survival. While the Ankara regime classifies even the simplest humanitarian aid as "terrorism," these spokespeople try to silence every voice that questions the process internally by labeling them as "regime agents."

An inquisitive individual means "an uncontrollable risk" for both structures.

Strategic Silence and Operational Area

The deep "strategic silence" displayed by the administration offers these aggressive figures the operational area they need on a silver platter. In the gray areas where the administration is silent, these spokespeople step in; they neutralize any idea that would shake the status quo by framing it as "feeding the regime's mill."

To accuse someone of being a "regime apparatus" and then strike them with the dirtiest method of the regime—reputational assassination—what greater service is there to the regime? The fact that these structures, which guard their own privacy with "cosmic" secrecy, throw victims who do not think like them before regime trolls with profiling and threats of exposure, reveals whose field they are actually playing on.

An object is approaching; but that object is not coming from outside. That object is the operational mindset itself that labels the victim, exposes them, and, by colluding with the status quo, breathes life into the regime's survival. Now, only one question remains: while calling others an "apparatus," with whom did you shake hands behind closed doors for this perfect cooperation?