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I hope they will fail. The worst democratic government is many times better than military rule.
by low_battery 10y ago
I hope they will fail. The worst democratic government is many times better than military rule.
- ecopoesis 10y agoEven democratic government that was turning towards religious extremism, routinely shut down freedom of speech and press, and was well down the path to turning into classic strongman dictatorship?
- low_battery 10y agoThe military in turn, in past coups, hanged hundreds of people including a prime minister, oppressed press and public in much worse ways. Turkey still has a functioning democracy, true, current government is shit, but they but your portrayal is actually inaccurate. Military coups / rule is horrible. They only bring terrible pain to people.
- selimthegrim 10y agoAnd Menderes arranging pogroms on minorities and stealing their money was a good thing?
- low_battery 10y agoYou are parroting the same stuff Junta did at the time.
- selimthegrim 10y agoMy bad, you are right and I was wrong.
- ben_jones 10y agoAccording to Star Wars Episode 3: Revenge of the Sith, democracy has its greatest failures with a thunderous (democratic) applause.
- tomp 10y agoNah, in Turkey it's the other way round...
- zardo 10y agoThe tyranny of the mob can be just as cruel as any dictator.
- koenigdavidmj 10y agoI haven't investigated too carefully, but the word floating around now is that the military in Turkey takes power about every ten years when the government gets too Islamist, and has a decent track record of returning control to a civilian government.
- low_battery 10y agoWell try living those military coups or asking actual people who lived through those.
- cesarbs 10y agoTurkey is a little different here. Their military is supposed to take power when the president gets too radical. They're then supposed to run an election for a new president. AFAIK this has happened a number of times in their history.
- low_battery 10y agoI lived 2 military coups in Turkey, your explanation kinda glosses over the horrible pains they bring.
- cesarbs 10y agoSorry, I didn't mean to do that. That's the explanation I've heard before and it was never brought to my attention they were painful processes for the people. The way I was told about it, I thought it was a pretty streamlined process that impacted only the people in power.
- jackmodern 10y agoCan you elaborate, please?
- low_battery 10y agoWhat do you want me to elaborate? Do you think military coups in Turkey are special for some reason? You can google about them yourself.