Turkey is a country where extraordinary incidents that do not exist in other democratic countries are experienced on a daily basis. We have our own way of doing things that is very strange to the Western eye.Would a prosecutor of any Western country knowingly sabotage a covert intelligence operation? Would a prosecutor attempt to jail the intelligence chief of a country for holding secret negotiations with a militant organization to end terrorist incidents in his country?Unfortunately, such things happened in Turkey, and it was all done to cripple the government and not for the superior interests of the country. Today the government is under fire from the EU and the U.S. for jailing journalists and harassing newspapers and television stations. They say this is a violation of press freedoms and the freedom of expression. The U.S. has said opposing the government should not be considered a criminal act. Of course, all this is true and valid in Turkey as in Western countries.However, there is a big "but" that the EU and U.S. need to understand. What is happening in Turkey is not because people are voicing their opposition to the government. There are several publications in Turkey that pour in all kinds of criticism of and accusations against the government bordering on insult. Yet nothing happens to them and they continue their attacks on the government and even on individual personalities without any hindrance. Ask your embassies to send you the translations of Sözcü newspaper on a daily basis and you will understand what we mean. Yet, what is happening now in Turkey is a massive investigation into claims that media outlets affiliated with the Gülen Movement have been used to frame and jail adversaries of the movement in a very sinister manner. A Muslim preacher and his people have been jailed in a well-planned and executed plot. Zaman daily and Samanyolu TV were used in this operation to publish adverse stories and frame a religious movement that strongly opposes the Gülen Movement. Zaman accused the Taşhiye group of the Nur Movement of being an al-Qaida organization. Samanyolu ran a television series where the Taşhiye group was depicted as an al-Qaida terrorist group. Then, prosecutors and judges affiliated with the Gülen Movement jailed members of the Taşhiye group as an al-Qaida-affiliated entity led by the half-blind preacher, Mehmet Doğan. All the imprisoned members of the Taşhiye group were released after 17 months in jail because the charges against them were dropped. Now, all those under investigation and those involved, including the journalists who played a role in these plots, are in custody.So, all these claims of journalists being jailed for their views are simply not true. Those who are making these claims at home are actually doing it to divert attention from the great mess they have created in this country using religion to fill their pockets and grab power. Those who are criticizing the government like the U.S. and EU are doing so because they have been seriously misled by the Gülen Movement. Would the U.S. system allow The New York Times to frame a church leader and then have him sent to jail by collaborating with a prosecutor and a judge? Would Germans allow Die Welt to defame a bishop and have him sent to prison for 17 months? What would Americans, Germans or any other Western country do to those who were involved in this kind of criminal act? Turkish authorities are doing exactly what they would do in view of such a crime.