RE: Turkey's Erdogan orders the conversion of Hagia Sophia back into a mosque
July 15, 2020 at 2:45 am
(This post was last modified: July 15, 2020 at 2:46 am by WinterHold.)
(July 14, 2020 at 6:01 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(July 14, 2020 at 1:10 pm)WinterHold Wrote: The presidential decree is preceded by voting by the court:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/10/world...dogan.html
As in all democratic systems; the court must decide first -based on voting- then the president writes the decree.
Turkish people decided. Turkish people got what they wished. That's a fine democracy if you ask me.
Who cares if the Turkish people voted? the building is theirs.
Funny - just a few posts ago, you seemed to put great store by the claim that the Turkish people voted for this, now it’s ‘who cares?’.
And a court decision followed by a presidential decree is hardly the same as a referendum by the people. You have a bizarre notion of how democratic systems work.
Boru
The court decision preceded the decree by 4 years of legal case!!
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/10/world...dogan.html
Quote:The court decision came as the culmination of a four-year campaign by an obscure cultural association that made legal applications to restore a number of monuments
