Egypt, one of the most established Islamic countries in the Middle East, witnessed a sneaky and treacherously planned military coup on July 3, 2013.
During the period when the Muslim Brotherhood (IKHWAN), Egypt's most established Islamic organization, was in power, the Egyptian army, following in the footsteps of the dictators, carried out a coup against the legitimate government of the country.
The Freedom and Justice Party, the political wing of the Muslim Brotherhood, which came to power in the first elections following the Egyptian People's Revolution in 2011, which overthrew dictator Hosni Mubarak, was dissolved with this military coup.
During the coup, thousands of Egyptian citizens with different views who opposed the coup, along with thousands of Brotherhood members, were brutally killed.
Tens of thousands of Egyptians were convicted, and hundreds of these prisoners were executed through irregular trials.
Brotherhood leaders such as Muhammad Morsi and Muhammad Mahdi Akif lost their lives due to unhealthy conditions in prison.
THE FAMOUS NAME OF SISI'S PRISONS: TORTURE CENTERS
With the coup of July 3, 2013, Egyptian dissidents who resisted the coup were thrown into prisons as 'political prisoners'.
Egyptian prisoners in coup prisons, where there is no sign of human rights, continue to be subjected to dozens of different cruelties such as electric torture, sexual harassment, battery, psychological pressure, insulting beliefs and swearing, deprivation of health services, inability to communicate with their relatives, and deprivation of the right to defense.
Although there are people who managed to get out of prison in Egypt and complained to the official authorities, there is no one who can get results from these complaint cases because the current legal system in Egypt is under the control of judges who were bought by the coup plotters.
Members of the Brotherhood are longing for their country from which they were expelled
The biggest victims of the July 3 military coup were the anti-coup Egyptians who took an opposing stance against the army, which pointed its barrels at its own people.
Tens of thousands of Egyptians from different views and movements, although the majority of them belonged to the Muslim Brotherhood movement, were imprisoned after the July 3 coup.
Those who managed to escape from the country despite the arrest warrants issued against them had to migrate to different countries.
Coup victims, who were banned from entering Egypt by the coup administration or feared being imprisoned if they entered, continue to live in exile, kilometers away from their countries.
The only crime of these patriotic people, as defined by the coup plotters, was to oppose the return of their beloved country to the rule of a military dictatorship.
The July 3 military coup caused heavy destruction in Egypt.
Thousands of members of the Muslim Brotherhood, the country's most established Islamic organization founded by Hasan El Banna in 1928, were massacred in anti-coup demonstrations. They were either left to die in prisons or sentenced to exile with a ban on entry from their hometown.
The entire leadership of the Freedom and Justice Party, the political wing of the Muslim Brotherhood, which was in power before the coup, was taken into captivity by the coup plotters.
While figures such as Egypt's first elected president Muhammad Morsi and the former General Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood Muhammad Mehdi Akif are left to die in prison, dozens of Brotherhood leaders are still living captive lives in Egyptian dungeons.
COUPISTS TOOK EGYPT BACK 100 YEARS
In the environment of oppression and cruelty brought about by the July 3 military coup, Egypt fell into a terrible position as a country. The human rights violations caused by the coup plotters made Egyptians unable to live peacefully in their own country. The coup regime launched a movement to destroy the Muslim Brotherhood, which it saw as a threat to its power.
50 thousand Brotherhood members were suspended from their positions in public institutions. Newspapers, televisions and radios belonging to the Brotherhood were closed, and the reading and reprinting of the books of Hasan Al Banna and the leading figures of the movement were prohibited.
The coup plotters, who ignored the Brotherhood and laid dynamite on Egypt's Islamic cultural heritage, also destroyed the country's economy.
The Egyptian economy, which gave signals for economic development during the civilian government period when the Muslim Brotherhood came to power through elections, was again forced to borrow large amounts from usury institutions such as the IMF during the coup plotters' rule.
IF MURSI WAS IN POWER TODAY, WOULD GAZA BE LIKE THIS?
The Palestinian lands, where the Masjid al-Aqsa, the first qibla of Muslims, is located, are experiencing the most painful days in history, under the occupation of the fierce and cursed nation of the Israelites.
While the number of innocent Muslims murdered by Israel in Gaza, where the Zionist invaders continue their genocide, is approaching 40 thousand, the memory of how the late Muhammad Morsi adopted Gaza when he was the President of Egypt still remains vivid in our memories.
If the legitimate President of Egypt, Mohammed Morsi, who made the Palestine and Jerusalem issue a national issue of Egypt and pursued an honorable foreign policy against Israel, had continued in power today, the blockade and embargo in Gaza would most likely have been lifted long ago. Israel would not have had the opportunity to attack Palestinian lands so brutally.