The police did not carry out a raid on Zaman daily headquarters during the Dec. 14 operation, but rather, three police officers had to enter the newspaper's Editor-in-Chief Ekrem Dumanlı's room when he refused to leave his room to give testimony to the prosecutor. They did not examine any computers or documents in the building either. Furthermore, as the police officers were not allowed to take the elevator, they had to go upstairs through the crowd that trampled on their feet and took Dumanlı to give testimony.No journalists were arrested as a part of the Dec. 14 operation. Columnists Hüseyin Gülerce, Ahmet Şahin and Ekrem Dumanlı, all of whom gave testimony, were released after the legal proceedings were completed. The court released Dumanlı, rendering a verdict that there was no evidence to arrest him. The court ruled that only three police officers and Samanyolu Broadcasting Group General Manager Hidayet Karaca would be remanded to custody. So, do you think the claims that suggest that President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan cannot feel at ease unless they are imprisoned are true?Some circles that were misinformed by a Gülenist using the Twitter handle FuatAvni, evaluate the matter as if it were an intervention in the freedom of press. Three days before the operation took place, FuatAvni posted a tweet that 150 journalists would be arrested, clearly indicating that the parallel structure is still conducting illegal wiretapping. If they examine the Tahşiye group case file, they will see a number of unlawful deeds such as placing evidence and recruiting false witnesses. In addition to that, 50 people from this group were victimized. It is also worthy of notice that Fethullah Gülen, the leader of the Gülen Movement, delivered a sermon targeting the Tahşiye group before the Istanbul Police Department initiated an investigation against the group. There are still those who persistently repeat that "Erdoğan represses the press" without looking at the particulars of the operation. What should have been done? Should a structure that allegedly acted on Gülen's order and unjustly imprisoned their opponents such as Nedim Şener, Ahmet Şık, Hanefi Avcı, Soner Yalçın and Ragıp Zarakolu not have been investigated?A number of media outlets including The New York Times, The Guardian, The Telegraph, Reuters and many others portray Gülen as "Erdoğan's rival" in their headlines. Even this alone is enough to show that these media outlets do not believe there is a parallel structure in Turkey.In which democratic state of law could a former cleric living abroad be the rival of an elected president or prime minister? Which democratically legitimate rival could attempt to overthrow his rival by using his cronies in the police and judiciary? Could such a structure have democratic legitimacy?We are talking about a structure that strives to expand its intelligence network in almost an obsessive manner, that wiretapped encrypted phones of politicians, journalist and artists and that suppressed its opponents with all types of intimidation such as imprisoning and disclosing sex tapes. This same structure considered all these activities as worship thinking that they served a higher purpose and that everything was permissible to expand their community to gain strength. Had the state not detected this structure and inactivated it, it would have jailed hundreds of journalists as a part of the Selam Tevhid probe, as they did in the Kurdish Communities Union (KCK) trials.Turks have clearly seen all sorts of masks on the faces of the Gülen Movement, which is why its media could not find any supporters from any other groups on Dec. 14 and the government's fight against the parallel structure was welcomed by over 70 percent of the voters of other parties. Either relying on imperfect knowledge or deliberately, some circles, particularly the EU, have their head in the sand when it comes to the illegal organization of the Gülen Movement, but this will not prevent efforts to treat these illegal activities on legal grounds since we live in this country and this is our future.