Turko-centric or human-centric?

The most obvious flaw of Hizmet is that it is Turko-centric, not human-centric. Thus, Turkey and Turks have undeservedly high status in the hierarchy of the Hizmet. The positions that control the flow of finance, power, and ideas are occupied by and reserved for Turks, i.e., male Turks. This happened by way of historical precedents, but it does not mean it is right. In some sense, it is racial nepotism and "behind closed doors" opaque policy that does not value meritocracy.

Turko-centrism of the Hizmet is apparent in the profile of decision-makers - they are all male Turks without exception. Secondly, it is evident in the literature and ideological sources of the Hizmet. Topics, writers, and language of the literature of Hizmet are heavily and predominantly Turko-centric.

Thirdly, at the informal level, in Hizmet circles, Turks are shown and thought to be first-class members of the Hizmet, and other nations and races are secondary and second class participants of Hizmet. The nationalistic egotism of Turks is positioned above global humanistic values. Thus, sometimes, Hizmet is used as a tool and platform of propaganda and propagation of Pan-Turkism and Neo-Ottomanism.

The staged coup of the 15th of July, 2016 was the best thing that happened to Hizmet because it showed that nationalistic and clerical circles of Turkey hate the participants and ideas of Hizmet, and nationalist, racist, and clerical groups left Hizmet. However, now, there is an ideological vacuum in the Hizmet because global human values have not yet replaced the nationalistic and militaristic ideas that were purged by the coup.

People of Turkey are heavily indoctrinated and mercilessly brainwashed starting from their very early childhood. Turks are brainwashed that their nation, race, and country are the best in the world and that they are ubermensch who are destined to conquer, control, and rule the world. The posttraumatic syndrome of the fall of the Ottoman Empire adds up to this indoctrination and multiplies its effect.

At the stage of opening up to the world in the 1990s, when Hizmet schools were opened in various parts of the world, such mentality might have been positive and productive because people that have inferiority complex cannot move by themselves, cannot move others, and cannot emigrate. As they say, ignorance is a blessing sometimes (look at George Bernard Dantzig). However, now, in the 2020s, the claim of the superiority of Turks and Turkey is laughable, and Turko-centric discourse is constraining, slowing down, and limiting the global integration of the participants of Hizmet.

Ideas do not have a race, nation, skin color, religion, accent, language, socioeconomic status, gender, age, etc. Therefore, ideas must be expressed by everyone and accepted from everyone. Otherwise, over-reliance and overemphasis on one group or nation, or generation lead to inbreeding and subsequent degeneration of the ideas and ideologies.

Up to this point, most participants of the Hizmet thought that they are the patriotic daughters and sons of their fatherland and goodwill ambassadors of their country and culture. However, five years ago, they realized that they are stepdaughters and stepsons of their country and culture. The dominant and dominating mainstream culture labeled and libeled them as misfits, outcasts, and rebels. Their mothers and fathers, brothers and sisters, neighbors and friends disowned them.

I suppose and propose to accept and internalize the label of misfits, outcasts, and rebels because only they have the true freedom to think, talk, feel, and act freely. A person is truly free only when she has nothing to lose because she already lost everything.

You took away almost everything I possessed and believed in, in order to defeat and destroy me. By doing this, you showed me my weakness, and I started to search for the source of real power. I was like your dog on a leash, and you abandoned me in a wilderness so that I die. But dogs do not die in the wilderness, and they just become wild, hungry, and strong. You pushed me out of your stale mainstream culture of nationalism, militarism, clericalism, and racism. Now, I am making new alternative culture. I am not defeated. I am not destroyed. You abandoned me in water well so that you can share the wealth of your father without me. You betrayed and sold me. The only words that I want to say to you are "thank you." Your way is your way. My way is my way. May God never intersect them again.

Turko-centrism and Turkey-centrism were the mentalities that paved the way to the July of 2016. Racism, nationalism, clericalism, and militarism were viruses that attacked people. Vaccine against these viruses had severe and painful side effects. But it worked.

I chose, and I am choosing human-centrism, not Turko-centrism.

-İman isteyen münafık