Turkey

BOSTOM: WHERE HAVE ALL THE TURKISH GENERALS GONE……?

Turkey has indeed embarked upon the road of Islamization ever since the death of Kemal Ataturk, the father of modern Turkey. This shows that democracy in the Muslim world will always lead in one direction, totalitarianism, or Islam. KGS

Erdogan: Imprisoning Turkish Generals — and Ending Secularism

Andrew G. Bostom

Turkey  continues its regression to full re-Islamization—a process already begun within a decade of Ataturk’s death in 1938—and about to be fully realized under the fundamentalist Erdogan regime.

Shredding the Turkish Constitution, which institutionalized Turkey’s harshly imposed secularism by assigning the military as “protectors of the secular order,” there are now more generals that have been imprisoned for purported “coup attempts” against Erdogan’s fundamentalist rule than are in active service for the military.

The total of 34 officers being held at the military prison in Hasdal, explained the daily, was reached following the arrest of rear admiral Mucahit Sislioglu…

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2 Responses

  1. This has all of the trappings of a Stalinist purge, accuse all of the military brass who are loyal to the citizens and the nation of treason or a coup attempt, and Turkey is on the way to becoming an Islamic dictatorship.

  2. This shows that democracy in the Muslim world will always lead in one direction, totalitarianism, or Islam.

    ‘Or’?

    Actually I believe the proper phrasing would be a choice between an authoritarian system (Atatürk, Nasser, Saddam and the like) and the totalitarian one: Islam.

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