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2016 Coup in Turkey?

Aye, it's a democracy a bit like 'Putins version' of 'democracy'
ETA, or rapidly heading that way.

What is "Putins version of democracy" ? According to your washed minds, anything is "wrong" as long as it contradicts with Western interests. Putin have kicked money barons out of Russia and suddenly he became a "bad guy". You have no right to talk about "democracy", all Western countries supports military coup in Turkiye as they did in Egypt too, as they did everytime in the history.

We will have to intervene militarily to your countries as long as you keep these unfriendly attitudes against Muslim countries.
 
This is a good one. Especially for a "left wing" forum. Anyone who doesn't like international bankers is anti-semitic. Right.
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when you're in the shit stop digging
 
What is "Putins version of democracy" ? According to your washed minds, anything is "wrong" as long as it contradicts with Western interests. Putin have kicked money barons out of Russia and suddenly he became a "bad guy". You have no right to talk about "democracy", all Western countries supports military coup in Turkiye as they did in Egypt too, as they did everytime in the history.

We will have to intervene militarily to your countries as long as you keep these unfriendly attitudes against Muslim countries.
Aye, you'd have a bliddy good chance of success at the mo,we could possibly have some limited successes defending the more 'blue rinse' parts of the Home Counties, but your invading hordes would be finally checked by the barrage of empty 'broon ale bottles' when you arrived at the banks of the Tyne.
 
This is a good one. Especially for a "left wing" forum. Anyone who doesn't like international bankers is anti-semitic. Right.

Anytime "international banksters" get mentioned, things only go one of two ways... masons or jews, or rather masons and then jews. Nobody's mentioned "Social Justice Warriors" yet, or "Liberals", or "Cultural Marxists" and "feminazis", but "international banksters" can usually be expected to get the ball rolling on the yer average tinternets. Round it all off with "white genocide" and "the Islamization of Europe" for completes. Yootube commentology 101 really.
 
There was a school over the road where, every day, they would raise the flag and the kids would line up to intone a paean to a golden bust of Ataturk. Meanwhile, the gececondos were growing and the folk from Anatolia were arriving in ever greater numbers. They appeared to give no fucks for social liberalism, feminism, etc., and from what I understand they're the natural constituency of Erdogan and, as a result, are now in the ascendency.

This is because of kemalist secularism that the liberal wankers always applaud which wasn't so much a separation of religion and state but greater authoritarian control of religion under a turkish nationalist state configuration.

This is why it makes little sense to conflate western liberal democracy with the predominant formality that is turkish democracy. Islamists integrated into, and were crucial to, the neoliberal project in Turkey. True secularism was never practiced in Turkey and Erdogan is undeniably shaped by Kemalism.

Either way, democracy is not an eternal principle.
 
Kai my question was actually a real one:
I am interested to try to understand how it is possible for people in Turkey to see Erdogan as the hero of 'ordinary people' whilst he chooses to have such a crazy enormous golden palace built.
Nobody here thinks that the Queen in her palace, or the politicians in Westminster, are the champions of ordinary poor people.

Well, for one thing, the centre left party is the party of the kemalist elite and have a conflicted relationship with other communities such as alevis.

Some of the Alevis I have spoken to vote for the CHP due to antagonism resulting from sunni subjugation even though Kemalists have historically been the main institutional oppressors of alevis and other secularists.

One should also not forget the significant demographic of more islamic kurds who vote for the AKP because of ideas of transnational islamic representation.

Ethnic turks are actually a small part of the turkish population taken together.
 
*Bump*

have a read of this thread, it's completely nuts. any pretence of a democracy is fast evaporating I fear.

 
Today, German broadcaster n-tv reports, that the government considers German journalists and human rights activists held by Turkish authorities under the suspect of terrorism support to be hostages rather than regular prisoners. The Turkish government apparently uses them to pressure Germany to extradite a couple of Turkish generals who applied for political asylum in Germany after the failed coup. That this autocracy is still tolerated as a member of NATO is embarrassing. In the meantime, the German foreign ministry has issued a travel warning for Turkey.
 
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