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Originally posted by MidnightTide
reply to post by HelenConway
Guess you didn't bother to read the thread eh?
Originally posted by MidnightTide
In Turkey, 'police are packing people into the subway stations and throwing in tear gas, attacking hospitals where the injured are being treated.'
ireport.cnn.com...
Originally posted by HelenConway
Originally posted by MidnightTide
reply to post by HelenConway
Guess you didn't bother to read the thread eh?
I read your very inaccurate and misleading title - that was enough.
You falsely claim that Turkey has an islamic government when it is secular.
You are being alarmist and spreading mis truths.
addit: I will eat my hat if I events prove me to be wrong.edit on 1-6-2013 by HelenConway because: (no reason given)
Everyone who thinks that this protests are about some trees in a park is either very naive or very ignorant of what's going on in the region. The actual Turkish government is making drastic changes in the Turkish way of life. Slowly but surely they're slipping the country into an Islamic Republic and the last laws about prohibiting alcohol, banning kissing on public places, banning make up on the Turkish Airline stewardesses etc are enraging the progressive part of Turkish society. This country has always had a secular form of government but the actual Erdogan's government is making some serious changes which go against the image Turkey has in the world as a country where both cultures, that European and Asian can coexist. Don't also forget that Turkey is a NATO country. No one will tolerate an Islamic country in this alliance. Whoever makes the decisions globally cannot tolerate that as it cannot tolerate the fact that recently Turkey was getting closer to Russia. Thus the gift of TURKISH SPRING!!!
One of the most toxic words in Turkey’s never-ending political wars is “Shariah.” The word, which stands for “Islamic law,” has been a constant fear factor in the secularist narrative. Accordingly, the country’s “Islamists,” such as Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the incumbent AKP (Justice and Development Party), are determined to introduce Shariah to a Turkey whose laws have been resolutely secular since the 1920s. They will, sooner or later, make Turkey “another Iran.”
The Islamist government of turkey
Originally posted by MidnightTide
reply to post by Sankari
protests in Ankara, İzmir, Eskişehir, İzmit and Bursa.
and I posted the title of the link, as I thought you were supposed to do per ATS TOS.edit on 31-5-2013 by MidnightTide because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Telos
This is a very interesting read:
One of the most toxic words in Turkey’s never-ending political wars is “Shariah.” The word, which stands for “Islamic law,” has been a constant fear factor in the secularist narrative. Accordingly, the country’s “Islamists,” such as Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the incumbent AKP (Justice and Development Party), are determined to introduce Shariah to a Turkey whose laws have been resolutely secular since the 1920s. They will, sooner or later, make Turkey “another Iran.”
Read more: www.al-monitor.com...
Source
Al Jazeera's Gokhan Yivciger reports that protesters in Besiktas, Istanbul, have made their way towards the prime minister's office and are only about 200 metres away. They have hijacked a truck from the municipality and are using it as a barricade against the police, who are using tear gas to keep protesters at a distance.