RE: Looks As If Turkey Is Going Down The Shitter, Too
June 19, 2016 at 2:07 pm
(This post was last modified: June 19, 2016 at 2:08 pm by abaris.)
(June 19, 2016 at 2:02 pm)Bella Morte Wrote: No surprise there. And didn't the police suppress a pride march lately? Turkeys been slowly turning more and more Islamic for years.
Not that I support that, but previously the army always started a coup when politics started to move the country away from secularism. Erdogan certainly knew where to crack down when coming to power. First, he castrated the army, then he went after the press and now he's going after dissent in the parliament.
I think, that's the real problem. One of the select few really secular countries in the world, moved towards authoritarian rule. Erdogan, even if he doesn't show it at every given opportunity, is an Islamist. I still believe he's rather fighting for his own glory, rather than some fundie religious ideas, but that doesn't make it any better.


