Erdogan is also showing off his own force. Actually Turkey is a parliamentary democracy, but Erdogan is able to dismiss everyone from its position and office. He is able to cast the parliament as he wants it, so he can steer the political reigning. Is this maybe a hidden dictatorship?
3000 judges were imprisoned. Was this legitimate? We think not.
A quote by a lawyer contributing in the opposition of “Phoenix” emphasizes that he always has the last word. It says that “laws are newly written by the President to enforce an autocracy. So he can choose freely his followers for positions in the sectors for politics, economics, media and the security.
With his policies, Erdogan is detaching himself from the democratic policy of Atatürk. The free and intellectual people of Istanbul are disturbing for him. He is despising their ideology.
Erdogan has the opinion that women have to breed and take care of children. Men should work and earn money for feeding the family. That is an old-fashioned view of the world and women have emancipated themselves, but Erdogan does not want to accept that.
At the same time his cooperative is forgetting that 50% of population consists of women.
It will be a debacle for the Turkish economy if women cannot economize.
Many people also do not know that there is still discrimination and separation of race in Turkey. The ID-cards show different numbers for the respective ethnic group. Especially Jews and Greeks are in focus of the Turkish government. It is just as it was in the Nazism. People are reduced to their ethnicity and are not respected for their personality or their skills. It is just important what is written in your passport. It says whether you are worth something or not.
Turkey is also not showing everything they did and do, as Hitler already did in his labour camps.
The genocide of the Armenians in 1915/1916 is still discreeted and is an unmentionable topic in Turkey. Not denying this happening is penalized hardly, so that most people prefer to keep their thoughts about it for themselves.
That does not fit in a democratic state. Everyone has to be free and needs to have the right to express its own opinion freely without having the fear to be pursued.
As you can see, everything we know is just the top of the actions taking place. It is just the tip of the iceberg and we do not know when everything will crash and the whole superficial policy will perish and consequently the real policies of Erdogan will appear.
So how can we believe such a government which is lying, denying and accusing its own soldiers for a coup whose participants are most likely instructed by the President Erdogan himself for antagonizing people of the crowd against each other.
Erdogan is using the soldiers for showing himself in the best possible light. The soldiers are the scapegoats for him and he represents himself as a saviour of the nation. He knows that many people are supporting him and do not tolerate this illegitimacy, so that the impression of him as a saviour is strengthened. He is seen as a rescuer of the population and the liberator of injustice.
Erdogan managed it to kill two birds with one stone.
He pulled over even more people to his policy and divided the nation into two parts. On the one hand there are the intellectual conservatives, having a mind of the western society. Most of them are living in Istanbul.
On the other hand there are also the “real Muslims” in Anatolia. They are mostly poor and Erdogan is building everything up for them (as in the example in the beginning), so it is obvious that they are trying everything, to keep his power rising and they support him.
If the responsibility for the coup belongs to the accused generals and officers is questionable.
Erdogan is born as a person of power. He is the creator of a society which does not have place for individualism. Everyone has to go with the crowd. You can compare it with sheep living in a group. Every sheep is walking behind another and none of them is thinking about breaking free from this stream. They just do what they do everyday and continue with it because they have a fairly life and do not really suffer from it.
It is the same in this society. Every person always sees the same and does the same, but this is not disturbing them. They are all safe and do not have problems as long as they do not question their actions and do what the leader says. They just live their live and do not feel any absence, because they are used to their actions and the fact that they just move in groups for being strong in comparison to other groups. The way things are going, society in Turkey is getting more and more resemblances with group-living animals.
And the biggest problem is that people are still believing in religions and men as Mr. Erdogan are taking the biggest advantage of this faith and blind acting on behalf of god. He is building slowly but securely his own army of zombies controlled by wrong promises and faith.
The problem is that they are not longer thinking by themselves, they just do what they are told to do and unfortunately the number of supporters of this policies and lies is rapidly increasing.
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