Oh, we lost face to America
When the government wanted to stop the misuse of freedom in Twitter, it was regarded as the most ridiculous demand in the world.
Our Nişantaşı folks were appalled; we had been disgraced before Manhattan high society…
The American media, with its New York Times and its Washington Post had jumped in its seat; they launched “no to censorship” campaigns, expecting the company Twitter to absolutely resist – what they regarded as a second class country –Turkey’s legal demands.
We had finally been dropped to the division of the most fascist dictatorships; we were standing even lower than North Korea and China…
Our “resist Twitter” folks argued Twitter cannot be treated as an ordinary commercial company, but that it was a global freedom platform and their sacred Twitter kin should not be “touched.”
Now, the United States is facing the same problem…
Twitter closed an account named “Anonymous” without a court order because it disclosed the name of the police officer who shot the unarmed black boy and provoked and agitated people.
The company, it seems to be, had principles such as “users cannot disclose private or sensitive information about others” and “messages containing violence cannot be sent” and they have been violated…
No contempt or scorn… Our “resist hey Twitter” team is all quiet; they have disappeared…
In Istanbul’s Taksim Square when tear gas clouds reached the sky, human rights organizations were set on their feet. In Ferguson of St. Louis, the voice of those seeking justice, their calls, their roars have mixed with tear gas clouds.
There is no solidarity with those exposed to gas, no condemnation for those shooting gas capsules…
Nothing heard from our human rights roisterers.
Also, the esteemed Master Fethullah Gülen; he is also quiet, the same person who jumped in to say from the other side of the ocean, when Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan called the Gezi activists “a bunch of looters” that he should not call them looters…
President Obama told the demonstrators protesting the shooting of an 18-year-old unarmed black boy, there was “no excuse for looting or violence aimed at law enforcement.”
Missouri Governor Jay Nixon said Missouri would not allow a handful of looters to endanger the community.
There is silence from the Fethullah Gülen front.
When CNN International reporter Ivan Watson could not show his identity to the police on the anniversary of the Gezi events during live broadcast, our media burst into laughter and I was among them…
In the U.S., because they entered the area where demonstrators and police were clashing, Washington Post and Huffington Post reporters, photographers were arrested.
I don’t hear any sensitive exclamations from our activist journalists, let alone laughter…
Just at the moment they should be reciting the meaning and importance of freedom of expression, the right to protest, the freedom of assembly in democracies, look there is no sound from “ours.”
They had also disappeared into thin air when in Hamburg, the Germans declared partial martial law and even banned three people from walking side by side on the sidewalks. So, this silence is not a first for them.
As we lost face with Germany, now, we have been disgraced by the U.S.
Unfortunately, in this Ferguson sound and fury, we did not test as well as we did during the Gezi uproar.
Our militant groups, once again, chose to remain silent. Do you hear any sounds?
