Turkey, a very troublesome NATO member! Only good thing, sultan Erdogan is getting old (and he is only 69)!
The author Michael Rubin forgot to mention e.g. the many Turks living in Germany, a significant number of them also opposed to Erdogan!
If you are not happy with sultan Erdogan, you may leave Turkey and make the sultan happy!
"Thirty years ago, Recep Tayyip Erdogan explained his goals: “Democracy is not our final goal,” he declared, “but rather a means to restore the civilization of Islam that will advance in the twenty-first century, and whoever participates in the revival of this civilization, his reward with God will be doubled.”
Erdogan is set to achieve his goals.
Recent elections were neither free nor fair. The fix was in before the polls even began. ...
Erdogan is not reinventing the wheel, but rather embracing a tried and true tactic. Ayatollah Khomeini transformed Iran not only through indoctrination, but by encouraging a brain drain to rid Iran of an elite who might otherwise ideologically pollute society. Communist dictator Fidel Castro encouraged mass emigration not only to rid himself of a criminal underclass, but also Batista-era elites and those who did not buy into his Marxist vision. Muqtada al-Sadr embraced the same strategy in Iraq post-2003 as he sought to rid Baghdad of a middle class whose values he did not share. ..."
Erdogan sees himself as sultan. Just as Russian President Vladimir Putin sees the fall of the Soviet Union as a calamity, so too does Erdogan see the Ottoman Empire’s collapse. He not only wants to return it to lands he feels the victorious World War I powers unfairly denied Turkey, but he also wants to raise a religious generation to reverse Mustafa Kemal Atatürk’s imposed laicism.
This will require three changes to society. First, he will need to return Christians and other religious minorities to second-class status, something that increasing discrimination toward Greek, Armenian, and Jews inside Turkey suggests. Second, he will need to reeducate Turkey’s youth. In Istanbul, along the Aegean and Mediterranean coasts and in Turkey’s Kurdistan, many young people resist Erdogan’s Muslim Brotherhood precepts, even if they themselves are religious.
For Erdogan, that is only half the battle. Some people, as far as Erdogan is concerned, are irredeemable. This includes not only the youth, but also what remains of the more secular or Western-leaning middle class. As far as Erdogan, Soylu, and their inner circle are concerned, if they cannot be converted, they should leave.
Already, the evidence of this brain drain is evident in Miami, which is quickly becoming as much little Istanbul as it is little Havana. Those of military background flock instead to Norfolk and Virginia Beach, where former NATO colleagues provide a support network.
No comments:
Post a Comment