Uluslararası bankacılık üzerine senaryolar

Diplomatic Observer, Nisan 2015

2009 yapımı “The International” isimli bir film var. Bu filmdeki banka bir suç örgütü ve 200 milyon dolar karşılığında füze takip sistemi satın alıyor. Akıllı bir gazeteci bu haberin peşine düşüyor ve öldürülüyor.“Savaşın asıl kıymeti yol açtığı borçlardır” ve “bankacılığın asıl amacı ülkelerin, insanların, hepimizin borca köle olmasıdır” mesajlarını veren filmdeki bankanın ismi IBBC. Bu isim para aklama, silah ve uyuşturucu ticareti yapılmasına aracılık ettiği için 1991’de kapanmadan önce sahip olduğu varlıklar bakımından dünyanın yedinci büyük bankası olan BCCI’ya gönderme yapıyordu.

Scenarios for international banking

Diplomatic Observer, April 2015

Story of a bank, which is a criminal organisation, buys a missile tracking system for 200 million dollars is told in the movie "The International". A journalist investigates the IBBC bank and then he is murdered. The film have some messages like “wars' real benefits are debt creating” or “the aim of banking is to make us all slaves to debt”. IBBC's name was an allusion to BCCI, which had the seventh largest assets in the world when it was closed in 1991 for aiding money launder, illegal arms and drug trade.

The Turkish character in the film, Ahmet Sunay was selling a missile defence system to Israel while the missile system already been sold to Iran and Syria. Although BCCI had very little to do in Turkey, in the film, the president of the IBBC got killed in Turkey. For us, this is an interesting point.

Banks are very complicated structures. Therefore we can try to identify them from different aspects. Anıl Çeçen, a professor at the Faculty of Law of Ankara University, says that global firms have their own intelligence networks and they fight against states. He adds, the multinational companies' battle for raw resources and new markets has turned into wars against states". Pointing towards a hegemonic structure, Çeçen compares a bank which have branches in 80 countries, to a state with 80 embassies.