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Military in Turkey was a tool of the Kemalist regime and vice versa. Erdogan did change that. You call it gutting the military and I call it the right thing to
by TheSmoke 13y ago
Military in Turkey was a tool of the Kemalist regime and vice versa. Erdogan did change that. You call it gutting the military and I call it the right thing to do and to tell the truth I am happy with the result. Let's just keep the military in a place where they belong and have them out when they are needed. I don't need the military to protect the regime, I need it to protect me and my land.
The incidents are nothing different than what the police were doing to Kurdish protesters or Muslim protesters (whom you probably call Islamists) protesting the turban ban across the universities and govt offices and the Kemalist regime's actions against Islam for the sake of secularism for almost 100 years. Erdogan himself knows this better than anyone else. He was thrown into prison just because he read a poem by the Kemalist regime, its laws and its bureaucracy.
Simply put some residents in Istanbul did not want the authorities to destroy Gezi Park and build a mall instead. They were harmless and friendly. Police went brutal and the protests turned into resistance. Police and authorities acted in a more fascist way. They ignored people's right to protest and the anger increased and spread across the country. In my opinion, Erdogan himself should come up, apologize and hold the police and other authorities responsible for their actions and make them answer in front of the law. This is fascism, this is authoritarianism and we do not want it. We've had enough of it.
- nakkaya 13y ago> He was thrown into prison And the same guy, now prime minister jailed a world renowned pianist because he quoted a poem criticizing Islam (for foreigners technically court jailed him but they basically control that too) . Repeat after me Turkey as a country does not have a religion. You can believe in the power of the stone for all I care as long as you do not throw it on my head. Erdogan's actions are just doing that. I do not want to live in a country where kissing in public gets you arrested, homosexuals are hanged publicly or my daughter bought/sold like a common house good. When Erdogan criticizes something/someone (this went as far as calling the founding father a drunk which if it wasn't for him Turkey would be Christian country.) it is a democratic right when regular joe/journalist/MP does it he/she gets jailed.
- iuguy 13y ago> which if it wasn't for him Turkey would be Christian country. I really don't understand this? How would Turkey be a christian country if it wasn't for Ataturk? The Seljuks invaded Constantinople in 1453.
- nakkaya 13y agoAfter WWI Turkey was divided between Christian countries France Greece England etc.
- jadyoyster 13y agoAnd that if that'd continued to be the case, Turkey would be a Christian country how?
- afsina 13y agoActually it was Ottomans who invaded Constantinople in 1453. The sentence about becoming Christian country is silly. It is the default cool-aid they give in elementary schools here.
- iuguy 13y agoSorry you're right about the Ottomans, I'd just woken up and seen this in the morning.
- ozgune 13y agoThese are the biggest protests I've seen in my lifetime, and I'm 34. People are reported wounded and dead, but no one knows how many. I called my parents in Anatolia to ask them about the protests, and they didn't know there were any. Nothing on Turkish media about the protests. Stuff like this would have appeared on TV twenty years ago, but now they are all self-censored.