Our
history professor at University, talking about revolution told us many
years ago that a well-mannered social revolution is one doomed to fail.
In the current Turkish circumstances, polite, rules-abiding, social
media orchestrated challenges to authority
have been basically rendered irrelevant by the government. Regardless
of the fact that these demonstrations have shown the world that not
everything is hunkydory in Turkey, people will eventually forget.
If the
Turks really wish to challenge the authorities in a serious manner,
they must be prepared to provoke an unholy, chaotic, extremely messy
scene, where everyone, including the government becomes mortified and
humiliated.
People must be driven by a ruthless urge to radically want
to establish democracy, justice and change, regardless of the personal
consequences or cost. Even Gandhi who was known as a "peaceful revolutionary"
understood this and used similar tactics to get the British out of India.
Turkey might not be at this point yet, but the situation could probably quickly
change if the government continues on its present authoritarian course and the country
becomes even more polarized.
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