Justice in Turkey tested by sons-in-law

A psychological warfare that components of the Fethullahist Terrorist Organization (FETÖ) have recently started is a new perception operation. They started publicizing the full name of pilot Major O.K., who played a huge role in the prevention of the coup attempt on July 15, 2016 by informing the National Intelligence Organization (MİT) that Undersecretary Hakan Fidan would be kidnapped. 

FETÖ members have not given up on their aim of staging a coup d'état and remove President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. In old Turkish legends there are slaves called "mankurt" and they are forced to go mad. These FETÖ members are the "fankurts," whose consciences have been removed by Fethullah Gülen. 

We have seen what they are capable of doing, like in the coup attempt and in the assassination of Russian Ambassador Andrey Karlov. For this reason, fighting FETÖ is not Erdoğan's personal issue, but it is a survival issue for the Republic of Turkey. 

No doubt FETÖ members are looking for an opportunity for a new coup and an assassination attempt on Erdoğan. For this reason, we should be careful about perceptions created in the fight against FETÖ. For instance, a sons-in-law debate is going on. The releases of the son-in-law of Istanbul Mayor Kadir Topbaş and the son-in-law of former Parliament Speaker Bülent Arınç have caused a tremendous breakdown. A new branch has been borne like the penal code, the family law, the commerce law or international law; this one is the law of the sons-in-law. 

Doğan Holding's Ankara representative Barbaros Muratoğlu was arrested on Dec. 1, 2016 upon a statement by confessor lawyer Ramazan Aykış. He is under arrest for links to FETÖ. 

He was accused of having the ByLock mobile application on his phone. He did not. He...

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