Erdogan’s Push for ‘Ultimate Power’ Leading to ‘Erosion’ of Turkish State…(Just Like Obama!)
SputnikNews.com
06.02.2016
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan who used to promote himself to the West as neo-liberal and reformist has now revived “neo-Ottoman fantasies” and is tightening his grip on the opposition. Erdogan’s thirst for ultimate power risks to destroy the country built by generations before his rule, according to journalist Robert Ellis.
Until 2002, when Erdogan’s AKP (Justice and Development Party) came to power, Turkey was doing well, following Kemal Ataturk’s dictum: “peace at home, peace abroad,” journalist Robert Ellis wrote in his article for The Independent.
Turkey was a respected NATO member with prospects of EU membership.
However, under the leadership of the AKP, the situation started to change. Initially, Erdogan presented himself as a Western, reformist and neo-liberal politician. In 2012, EU foreign ministers praised Turkey as an “inspirational example of a secular and democratic country.” Then, Faruk Logoglu, deputy chair of the opposition CHP (Republican People’s Party) warned that the AKP government was pursuing an authoritarian policy of gradual Islamization, leading to the erosion of Turkish democracy and secularism, the article read.
Turkey’s then foreign minister and now Prime Minister, Ahmet Davutoglu, changed the Ataturk’s dictum with imperial designs, having inspired the Turkish political elite with “neo-Ottoman fantasies.”
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