What Can Turkish Elections Bring? by Orhan Tarhan
"On July 22 Turkey is going to have parliamentary elections. This year, the election is very important, because the laicists (secularists) will try to stop the Islamist AK Party of Recep Tayyip Erdogan to secure its hold on the Turkish state and on life in Turkey. This election will decide what kind of country Turkey will be in the future: a secular, survivable country following Ataturk’s modernizing reforms or an Islamic country that has no future. Let us be clear on one thing: The Islamist AK Party is not made of the “good guys” as the American and European press are portraying them to be. They are the slow-movement acting kind of the same Islamists like those we are fighting against. Their only difference with the followers of Bin Laden is that they are no terrorist. Erdogan is not a democrat, as he is masquerading to be. By his own words, to him “Democracy is a means, not an aim.” And the laicists (secularists) Turks are not authoritarian people. They are the real democrats in Turkey, “the good guys” who consider democracy as an aim. I do not understand why American and European media turn things upside down."
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