
Originally Posted by
LeftEyeNine
AKP (single-handedly ruling party for the last 9 years (3 elections)) consists of an Islamist base who were always in a conflict with the concept of the modernized, Westernized, un-shariahed, secular Republic of Turkey.
While the highly influential cadre (senior judiciary instruments, the army etc.) was devoted to M. Kemal's heritage -maybe too strictly at times-, the transformation of the nation was incomplete, neglected or inefficient. So the folk was still feeling like the descendants of the religiously oriented nation of Ottomans, shariah, sheikhs, imams, creeds being their ordinary elements of their social structure.
Such clash inevitably created its neo-Ottoman politicians who are longing for an Islamist state -they have quite common feats compared to neoCons I'd suggest.
And now that AKP has disbanded the judiciary elements, the secular army officials, changing the Constitution that allowed them more space along with whole lot of laws and KHKs (decree laws bypassing the parliamentary negotiations), having risen their votes from 34.28% (2002) to 46.47% (2007) and to 49.95% (2011) respectively, they feel they possess the absolute power to carve, bend, demolish and mold and found as they please.
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (RTE) has a well known political slogan that dictates his party's projects aiming at 2023 -the 100th anniversary of the Republic- which stinks of "in its 100 year, it's no longer an Atatürk state, but rather mine -Islamist, agressive and capitalist".
Our prisons are full of political detainees who are civilians, senior to junior military officials, journalists, writers. Yeah, we never had the best grade report when it came to political imprisonments but this country had never seen this much.
In a country where the head officials of the state from the president to the prime minister as well as other ministers claim such detainees "being journalists, writers, civilians not necessarily mean that they can not be terrorists", things are going terribly wrong.
In 5 years at maximum, I'm expecting books being collected and burnt by mobs in the streets. Does it resemble anything ?
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