Maybe this is a genuine justice march

My first reaction to the Dec. 17 and Dec. 25, 2013 corruption operations was: "An anti-corruption operation is sometimes not just an anti-corruption operation." In contrast, I have regarded the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu's long march from Ankara to Istanbul from the start by thining: "A justice march sometimes is only a justice march."  

But there are some who think the complete opposite. 

For instance, actress Hülya Koçyiğit blindly believes that journalists who are in jail are not imprisoned for their journalistic activities. "They must have committed a crime because they have been arrested," is her logic. It does not cross her mind that there are some among them who are jailed just because of what they have written or what they have drawn.

A cabinet minister is so sure that this is a "march of terrorists" that he came out and said the roads were "not built for terrorists to walk on." He is not concerned about the fact that the demand for justice is the reason of the march. It does not cross his mind that there could be injustices that should be objected to. 

Some cry out that the march is an "invasion march of imperialism." It does not cross their minds that this is a democratic protest that they are trying to criminalize. They do not wonder about what they would do if they themselves will need such a right to march in the future. 

The repressive mindset that stopped them in the past whenever they wanted to seek their rights is at work again today. 

Books are once again seen as "more dangerous than weapons." Ideas are once again crimes worthy of life sentences. Free debate is once again not seen as a platform to seek the truth, but one to stir up domestic strife....