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CHAPTER 7 – ERGENEKON 
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The movement towards Anatolia is at the same time the movement 
“towards the people.” The poor villager in Anatolia feels for the first 
time civil servants, officers and literate youth to incline towards them. 
Little by little we have started to appreciate the value in their naked 
existence which was so far pulled to shreds and ill treated in the hands of 
harsh gendarmes. (
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). These human beings who, in the 
course of time as soon as they heard the noise of strange feet would 
crouch in any corner like a living heap, now run to meet those who come 
and without any worry in their eyes talk to them about the issues in their 
lives. Until we came to them two or three years ago neither could we 
understand them nor could they understand us; we were facing each 
other as if we were strangers. With their way of living, their 
circumstances and their behaviour they aroused our astonishment, 
disgust, mockery or our contempt. But the impression we left on them 
was that of the dubious, dark, greedy and cheating rascal who definitely 
wanted something from them, either to take something or to harm one of 
them. Never in any place or period of time was there a nation whose two 
different classes were so much apart, so much opposite. The Anatolian 
peasant (
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) looked at them with the same foreign eyes which 
looked at those Christian and European invaders who came from foreign 
lands. Anatolia was not a motherland for us until now but a milch cow, a 
colony. (
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) In my last trip I immediately saw everywhere the 
traces of ruins and lifelessness left by a merciless mechanism. 
(
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). Right next to this aristocracy there is the class of people 
whom we call enlightened, their head muddled with some abstract ideas 
about progress and becoming civilised, their eyes and nose always up in 
the air; they never lowered their head and never saw, they could not see, 
the horrors done on the earth on which they step and live; and with this 
indifference they entered the class of people who had thrust Anatolia into 
this state or had abandoned it in this state. Consciously or unconsciously 
they became complicit in their felony and crime. (…) I saw some young 
people involved in the branches of sciences and administration whose 
only desire is nothing other than reforming and improving our peasants 
and bringing them back to contentment and civilisation. But they do not 
yet know very well from where to start. Our peasants are in need of both 
physical and spiritual aid. Malaria, tuberculosis and in some places even 
diseases like syphilis secretly eat their offspring and
 
cause to degenerate. 
Therefore, is it necessary to start with the acute emergency undertaking 
of medical activities and organisations first? But before starting from this 
area is it necessary first to drain the marshes which cause malaria, to find 
a remedy against the bad living standards and bad nutrition which are the 
main reasons for tuberculosis, to fundamentally change some life 
conditions in order to keep syphilis in check and to be present in the 
struggle against some ideas by ignorant people? For this reason, is there 
no need for the technical knowledge of our engineers, for the assistance 
of our teachers and for schools and education? (
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) In order for all 
of these to be done and carried out in an unforced way once again is it 

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