Crime and Punishment

Crime! 
What is crime?
It evolved from the Old Turkish word crime "twisting, deviation from direction, rejection". I don't quite understand what it has to do with, but deviation from its direction perhaps resembles its current meaning a bit.
In today's Turkish, it means behaviour against customs and moral rules. 
Its legal meaning is behaviour against the law. In Arabic it is "cürüm". 
Actually "cürüm" in Arabic means corporal punishment, torture.
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Today, what constitutes an offence is defined in the law and the penalties to be imposed are clearly written down.
In fact, mankind has taken this into account in the past when it comes to laws. The old laws also describe offences and their punishments. 
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OK, today's laws are not so clear about the penalties for offences. 
For the most part, a certain range of punishment is assigned for each offence.
The penalties for offences are now left to the conscientious judgement of our judges. 
You may receive a minimum penalty for good behaviour, or the judge may apply the upper limit of the penalty limit if the good behaviour has not been lifted that day.
Of course, I am excluding those who have been charged with certain offences in today's Turkey, who are languishing in prisons before their indictments have even been written, when it is not even clear what offence they have committed.
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Rule of law! 
The judiciary, on behalf of the nation, decides who to punish and for what offence within the limits written in the law.
This is how it should be in a state of law!
There is such a thing as separation of powers, right?
The judiciary is independent, both independent and impartial! The latest amendment to our Constitution says that the judiciary must not only be independent, but also impartial!
Naturally, members of the judiciary are expected to be like this out of respect for the constitution!
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Partners in crime! 
Sometimes people commit crimes together. Then they become accomplices. 
Organised crime! 
There was a film like that, wasn't there? The first time I saw the film, I laughed a lot at the scene where Cem Yılmaz punished Yılmaz Erdoğan and his idler with a golf club.
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There are organised crimes in the penal code.
There is an organised crime unit in the police.
This unit fights against organised crime organisations.
Recently, many organised crime organisations have been caught in our country!
How could these criminal organisations become organised in the country, it is astonishing, isn't it?
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Yes, the word "organisation" was once a banned word. 
Are you an organisation? 
Today, when you say the word "organisation" everyone's hairs stand on end. 
The word organisation is the forbidden word.
What the organisation says is what it is! That's how it's done!
Organisations have a special personality. 
It's as if the organisation knows how to talk. Organisations really have a personality. Especially terrorist organisations.
However, living an organised life is not a bad thing at all.
There are solidarity organisations. 
Red Crescent, Mehmetçik Foundation, Darülaceze, humanitarian aid foundations, AFAD...
Then there are trade unions and other non-governmental organisations.
All these are actually organised unions. Although they are mostly called associations or foundations, they are actually organisations.
Even canary protection associations and federations are actually organisations.
In other words, organised life is not a bad thing at all; human beings are used to living together. And togetherness requires organisation.
But for some reason we hesitate when we say "organisation".
I think we should restore the dignity of this word as soon as possible!
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Crime and Punishment!
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky wrote this novel in 1866. 
It was first published in the literary magazine "Russian Messenger". Since it was a long novel, it took twelve months for this work to be published in the magazine. 
It was later published as a one-volume book.
Dostoevsky was sentenced to death along with his other friends for being anti-religious and anti-government due to the influence of the circles of friends he joined because he was in financial difficulties, but at the last moment he was pardoned from the death penalty and sent into exile in Siberia. 
He wrote this work on his return from there after four years of imprisonment. He also wrote many of his works in prison.
His life was also very difficult. The circle of friends he got into due to his financial difficulties almost caused his death.
In the novel "Crime and Punishment", Dostoevsky tells the story of a person who plans to kill a moneylender woman for her money and realises this murder, and describes the spiritual anguish and regret that a person falls into and experiences within himself.
This novel is one of the most important works of Russian classics.
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When we commit an offence, we regret it, don't we?
I'm not talking about such serious offences, sometimes even if it's something simple, we regret to ourselves that we wish we hadn't done that. It doesn't have to be a crime. 
Man is a being with a conscience!
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Guilt!
Do you think Adam felt guilty when he bit that apple?
What about Eve? Do you think she also felt guilty for making Adam eat the forbidden apple?
Ladies, tell me, what could Eve have felt at that moment?
Together they had to pay the penalty for their offence, they were both expelled from Paradise and condemned to live the rest of their lives on earth.
Hell torment! 
Can life on earth be hellish torment?
Earth is not Heaven after all! 
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Moreover, not only themselves, but the whole humanity is still suffering the punishment of the Forbidden Apple bitten by Adam.
O humanity! Shame on you! You are here because Adam once bit the Forbidden Apple! Know this!
O son of Adam, daughter of Adam!  You endure the hardships of this world because Eve tempted Adam!
How nice it would have been to live in paradise! Bread in hand, water in lake. If we add the Huris to the mix, we'll be in for a treat.
Let alone being ashamed, sometimes I get angry with those who expelled us from Paradise.
Of course, some of my resentment is for someone else.
You can't be so cruel, dear! What do you mean, why are you punishing so many people because Adam bit an apple?
If it was forbidden, why did you create the apple tree? 
OK, let's say you created it, why forbid it then?
And why do you give the apple such a nice flavour? 
Are you doing this cruelty on purpose?!
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I did it, but why did I do it? For your own good, Bülo!
Banker Bilo, isn't that the name of that film?
Maho and Bilo!
We don't betray friends!
My countrymen are naive.
He was also in the labour market, wasn't he, Bülo?
You can't get any work done without a handout.
My regards to Şener Şen and İlyas Salman.
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We humans are strange creatures.
He's caught red-handed in bed, but he denies it! 
That's the rule!
When you commit a crime, even if you're caught, you deny it!
The gullible ladies are also deceived for some reason, they prefer to believe the man's words rather than their eyes.
Do you think we interpret this crime in the way that suits us?
If that lady didn't need the man, would she forgive him when she caught him red-handed? 
After all, she sees with her eyes what the man is doing! 
But no, she doesn't even believe her eyes.
Of course, such scenes happen in films, if it happened in real life, who knows how that lady would pay her husband!
On the contrary, such an issue would be a reason to kill for men.
The man caught his wife in bed with someone else, what more valid reason is there?
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What is an offence? What is not? How do we know?
Is it only society that decides?
If we ask our conscience, everyone has their own conscience. Some even have no conscience at all.
Then there is the culture of pretence.
Whatever you do for the sake of the real goal, whatever crime you commit, all is permissible!
As long as you reach the goal in the end.
They say that it is the captain who walks his ship.
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Then there's the whole getting caught thing. 
Do whatever the hell you want, but don't get caught!
For example, a thief is someone who is caught stealing; if he is not caught, no one will know that he is stealing. Therefore, he won't be labelled a thief!
So this involves a paradoxical situation. Contradiction!
I think dear Cem Yılmaz brought up this contradiction in one of his parodies. I think it's the right point!
Greetings to him from here.
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Our President seems to have taken offence when Mr Özgür Özel said "accomplices". 
We are doing our best for our country, he says at the group meeting. Just two days ago, we paid a return visit, is this something to say now?
I think whether you call it softening or normalisation, these words are proof that this is the end of this business.
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As I said, what is an offence and what is not is a relative concept. These things change according to time and place. Also, who did it plays a very big role in these offences.
We have to leave the judgement to history, when the time comes, everyone will surely be punished for their crimes. If not in this world, then certainly everyone will be punished for their crimes before God.
Moreover, if the crimes committed are organised crimes, the punishment will be much greater. 
Look, since Mr Özgür Özel talks about the partnership of crap, there is a crime and there is not a single person who committed the crime, Mr Özgür Özel is talking about the existence of a partnership!
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I don't know this or that, I don't know who has committed what offence in other matters all this time, but it is obvious what the country has been brought to, at least economically, with the mistakes made until yesterday. 
Were these mistakes a crime? 
Let that be left to the conscience of the society. 
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OK, I admit it. I did it! I said I was an economist and I got the country into this mess.
Anyway, if a lamb disappears by the Euphrates, ask me to account for it!
I did it, but ask me why did I do it? 
For your own good, Bülo!
Love and respect to everyone from Moscow.