Sunday, July 17, 2016

Turks Careening Backward under Erdogan’s Fist

Dictator of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's solitary fiefdom by unpopular and oppressive diktat is intolerable to the descendants of Kemal Ataturk, and is turning Turkey's progress backwards by a century.

I hope the truth is stronger than the “Wag the Dog” Hollywood-style spin we are being shoveled, both sides being to some extent culpable, and both sides being enough misrepresented that we need to couch everything we have stated in the freshet of weasel words to modify any suggestion of a solid affirmative  anywhere within the  hype we have been fed for hours.

Not that it makes a huge difference what I deem Turkey’s ratchet backwards to pre-reformation Turkey; in fact, I disliked Turkey more than any other of the 100-plus countries I have been to, lived or spent time in.

Erdoğan’s thumbnail history includes: Born in 1954, this pol has been Turkey’s 12th President, since 2014. Before that, he was Prime Minister, from 2003 to his ascendancy to leader in 2014; and prior to that, was mayor of Istanbul from 1994 through 1998.  Erdoğan, it has become clear over the recent past, merits ouster. He ought to have been replaced years ago, as his positions have concretized, his bellicosity has become more evident, and his insistence on outlandish privilege or accommodation were noticed as excessively parochial and leaning toward revanchist adherences to an untenable Islam that Ataturk had been contemptuous of enough to have massively reformulated. 

Kemal’s was a modernist sensibility in the Anatolia he loved. The fez outlawed. Women brought into the current century.   Such reforms were almost unheard of; magical, remarkable even seen in light of today’s turbulent darkness looming over the rest of majoritarian Muslim nations in the Umma, nearly 100 years on.



http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/07/turks_careening_backward_under_erdogans_fist.html

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