On YouTube, Sedat Peker declares war on the so-called prince and millions of people are watching this fight. Six videos uploaded in two weeks got around 32 million views and are a rising trend on the video channel. The warring forces wear one another down. Erdoğan has so far held back.
None of the non-ceremonial “princes” in Turkey is as polite as Prince Harry and wants to renounce his right to succeed Erdoğan on his own initiative. The blood of the royal family has flowed most often in such battles in Turkish history. It’s similar to the phrase “there can only be one” in Highlander. That was the reality that was even allowed by law in the Ottoman Empire for a long time. The princes killed each other until only one was left. There are currently two strong political figures who are being traded as possible successors to Erdoğan. Two princes for a position as leader of Turkey. Who are these princes? The Minister of the Interior, Süleyman Soylu, and the Minister for Economic Affairs, Berat Albayrak, who resigned a few months ago and is actually a “son-in-law”. Erdoğan has a dilemma with this election. He apparently considers his two sons unsuitable to hold office for his own office in the future. The son-in-law is supposed to solve the dilemma. But Erdoğan does not seem to be either for or against you in public, he is above them.
Something is wrong in Erdoğan State. He is experienced enough to know that the modern parties in Turkey have so far failed to replace fathers with sons. Both princes have resigned from their offices before. Soylu mobilized the Twitter mob and was able to stay in power. Albayrak failed miserably. So far it has been suspected that the two do not like each other. Now the intrigue of these two warring factions comes into the spotlight.
Who is peker
YouTuber Peker threatened the academics for peace that he would shower in their blood. He sent jeeps for the Islamic Forces in Syria, organized pro-government rallies, won awards for businessman of the year from pro-government media and made his followers swear allegiance to the Great Turkish Empire. He himself was imprisoned for years, once for his criminal business and once because he stood up for the anti-government, military and nationalist forces. He is now loyal to Erdoğan. This is how his rise as a supposed businessman began.
The YouTube videos have an entertainment value, especially during the pandemic. He quotes from many books, including the Alevite Kurdish leader Seyit Rıza, who was executed by Mustafa Kemal in 1937, and speaks about left-wing figures such as Che Guevara. He laments recent poverty-related suicides. Peker also shows various books on the table in his videos. Mario Puzo’s novel “Die fools” should stand for the fact that others have behaved stupidly and should now atone for it. The next book, “Wicked Messenger: Bob Dylan and the 1960s,” written by Mike Marqusee. It can be assumed that the Turkish translation of Messenger as a Prophet is why this book landed on the table. Isaac Deutscher’s title for his trilogy on Trotsky also bears this name: “The outcast prophet: Trotsky”. The Turkish word “Peygamber” goes back to the Persian word that actually means the messenger. But what message does this dropout have? Again a book symbolizes his answer: “The Godfather Returns” by Mark Winegardner.
Capital, the state and crime
A prime example of the connection between capital, the state and crime comes from the book “A beautiful murder” by Ernest Mandel. He points out that the 1982 Forbes regular list of the country’s richest families included three families of avowed gangsters among the greatest wealthy in North America. One can go into the relationship between mafia, politics and economy and cite the film “Once Upon a Time in America” as a good example of the portrayal of such relationships that are international in character and not limited to a single country. While the character Max Bercovicz in the film has to hide his own identity in order to become a respected politician, Peker was a political figure, a rich man and at the same time a criminal without hiding his past. The film remains more realistic than the Turkish conditions.
The first revelation was that an AKP MP had hushed up a rape with the help of the police and the military, and the 18-year-old victim, Yeldana Kaharman, who is from Kazakhstan, was found dead in her apartment a day later after Kaharman’s crime reported to the authorities. The father of this AKP MP is Mehmet Agar, who was police chief and interior minister in the 1990s. Sedat Peker called him the head of the deep state. Mehmet Agar is attacked by Sedat Peker because there was a recent house search of Peker’s villa in which his wife and children were treated very roughly and he sees this as a violation of his honor and a violation of an unwritten law that children and women are not may be touched. He also begins attacking former Economy Secretary Albayrak as the real mastermind behind the raid. Mehmet Agar had seized a marina in Bodrum with violence and threats in order to use it for drug trafficking. After all, the 4.9-ton cargo of cocaine that was intercepted at sea in Colombia on the way to Turkey was intended for this port, said Peker. Mehmet Agar and Albayrak were more or less in cahoots running their businesses, which ranged from the media to ministerial posts to drug deals, he said.
Then there was a turn of events. The current interior minister, Süleyman Soylu, held back and began to attack Peker. Peker sees himself betrayed by Soylu. Up until now he had stood by Soylu and they had settled a lot of things together. Now he reveals that Soylu leaked the information and that Peker is under investigation, so that he had to leave the country for the time being and wait for orders from Soylu to return. Soylu personally put police officers at his disposal for his safety. Soylu is waging a war against the Albayraks and Peker sees himself used as an instrument in this war. Soylu is getting rich and is involved in the business of obtaining building permits for the sale of state land. Peker added that he had supported him himself for 20 years to help him rise politically.
Peker explains the crooked deals with the names, locations and details of the two forces who are fighting over Erdogan’s successor to the public. More crimes are sure to come to light. Among the six videos by Sedat Peker, there was not a single comment in the first days of publication. Meanwhile, more and more people are commenting as it has already become clear that Sedat Peker will not lose this fight so easily as the cost of a possible victory for the other side skyrockets. The Turkish public prosecutor’s office is just as inactive and just looks on. Not a single revelation or allegation of Peking has been disproved. But Soylu had to react and asked the prosecutor to investigate the allegations, which only happened with his consent.
What is Erdogan doing in this fight?
Only the major conspiratorial forces in Turkey or abroad that oppose Erdogan’s government have put forward an argument to dispute Beijing’s statements. Freud describes in his book “Totem and Tabu” the paradox of a powerful ruler. If he has so much power and can dictate everything, what about the bad things that happen as a result of his choices? The masses keep killing their rulers. Erdoğan interferes everywhere and wants to control, separating between the things: the good things he is supposed to have done (the alleged good points cannot be found, however) and the bad things that are actually caused by internal and external evil forces caused. In Turkey, however, Erdoğan would stand for reducing the damage from these forces, without him the damage would be much greater.
Now Peker has announced that it will make the criminal business of Turkish politics in the Syrian war better known. This probably means that the politicians have become richer through the business, even though they have presented their actions to the outside world as in the national interest. In doing so, Peker uses the narrative that the Turkish state is sacred to him and that the only problem is that some politicians are abusing their office, whereby he also defends Erdogan as president, who allegedly does not notice anything of this kind of business. The factions within the government try to enrich themselves on the one hand by doing illegal business in the country and plundering the state owners. These conflicts are far from peaceful. The media, the mafia and the ministers are fighting each other over state opportunities.
Sedat Peker wasn’t the first to make such a career. The forefather of the Turkish criminals was Topal Osman. Topal Osman and his armed gangs murdered countless Armenians and Greeks and later the Kurds in Kocgiri during the Armenian genocide. He was a national hero and even the head of Mustafa Kemal’s personal protection force. While pursuing political goals himself, he was murdered and his body hung in front of parliament in 1923. So far, no political murder or massacre has taken place in Turkey without state approval or direct organization.
No matter who wins this war, Erdoğan will try to present himself as the winner in the end. Erdoğan, who was poor at the beginning of his political career, made himself and his family rich through dubious deals and took the same path that other politicians would like to take. Erdoğan’s country is the prototype of the Holy Trinity, in which politics, capital and mafia have united in its reactionary, Bonapartist way and where we are now enlightened by a new YouTuber.
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