Liberal Democratic Government Lost in Turkey

What the heck happened in Turkey? As they’ve been reported the facts are a) a military coup was announced and b) is was suppressed. Everything beyond that seems to be conjecture.

Now there are various claims. For example, it’s being claimed that the Turkish people chose democracy in Turkey. Is that really the case? Or did they choose Erdogan? Maybe they chose democracy in the sense of mobocracy but certainly not in the sense of liberal democratic government since that selection wasn’t on the menu.

It’s also being claimed that the supposed coup was actually a false flag operation that will empower Erdogan to seize more autocratic power than he already has.

Is that the case? Was the attempted military coup an attempt to reinstate Ataturk’s secularist Turkey or an expression of frustration with lack of Islamism? I don’t think we know and possibly never will. Does secularism in Turkey foster liberal democratic government? By all indications Erdogan’s Islamism threatens it.

Whatever has happened I think we can conclude that liberal democratic government lost in Turkey.

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  • TastyBits Link

    Col. Lang has an interesting post at his site about Turkey and the US nuclear assets stationed there. This should be another reason to think long and hard before letting anybody “inside the wire”.

    I think I just had a flashback to the first Gulf War. I do not talk about it much, but having anybody “inside the wire” is f*cking unsettling.

  • TastyBits Link

    Col. Lang has a new post about Turkey and US nuclear assets, and this one is a little concerning. Having to retrieve nuclear weapons from a hostile Turkey does not seem like a pleasant task. I have no doubt the US military could do it, but the Turkish military is not an Arab army.

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