"Let us not forget that each of us, regardless of roles we are in or political beliefs we hold, are all individually accountable before the great judge called history.

Do some individuals or parties have privileges to commit crimes?! No; no one has such a privilege, yet you see; if we fear for the prosecutor who opens a case being murdered, then let's discard the word 'state' and say that we are a tribal state; in our country, jungle laws prevail; let's just admit that we only walk over who we find weak; so be it, that it!!"

(Cumhuriyet, December 28, 1978, Let's Think the Opposite...)

-Uğur Mumcu

July 12-December 31, 1978, writings... Does the law only bind the citizens together? Is everyone equal before the law, or can some wealthy individuals, politicians, public officials, parties, or groups can not obey the law, and the law may not be applied to them? If it cannot be applied, if the law ends there, then how much does the state exist, how powerful is it, how respectable is it? If the state and its organs do not consider themselves bound by the law; if the law cannot be applied to certain individuals and groups, if the state and the law end where the other begins, who and what takes their place?