They have all together saved their day

Following the ruling not to prosecute in the investigation concerning the incident that resulted with the death of 34 citizens at Uludere, the families of the victims filed an objection to the Air Force Command Military Court. 

This objection, despite the dissenting vote of the chief judge, was rejected by two lower ranking military judges. 

Chief justice in that case, Air Force Major Mustafa Pürta?, in his dissenting view said, "This decision of non-prosecution will not satisfy the public conscience, even though it looks suitable in the short run and in favor of the common good; in the long run, it will disrupt the sense of justice and damage the state; that is why I have a negative vote against the majority."

Major Pürta?'s dissenting sentence proved to be true. Going through the motions did not work and the truth spilled out. 

From Kemal Gökta?'s story at daily Cumhuriyet, we leant that all military officials on duty on the region that night evaluated the people in question were not terrorists but were smugglers. 

However, the intelligence mistake, which we know stemmed from the National Intelligence Organization (M?T), caused a massacre, including an order that was made to be signed by the Chief of General Staff in his home at midnight. 

These were known during the investigation by the office of the military prosecutor; however, the office of the military prosecutor did not mention any of these in his non-prosecution verdict. 

The military prosecutor said in his non-prosecution decision there was no reason to open a public case because they made inevitable mistakes while they were performing their duties. 

Obviously, the military prosecutor did not take into consideration the evaluations of...