Posted on 02/26/2010 12:26:40 AM PST by greeneyes
Prosecutors on Tuesday interrogated 51 Turkish military commanders, including former air force and navy chiefs, over alleged plans to destabilize the country by blowing up mosques to trigger a coup and topple the Islamic-rooted government.
Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2010/02/23/turkey-coup-commanders.html#ixzz0gd1zR6R6
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Turkey has a history of its military overthrowing elected governments .
There was three coups in Turkey:1960,1971 and 1980
As the government continues to run into the arms of Iran and Syria, expect more terrorism on Turkish soil as a result. The government will be fanning the flames of Islamic terrorism even if secular movements are plotting to terrorize houses of worship. If there are unhappy military it is also because there are unhappy secular and industrial sectors that want more transparency, less religion and greater integration with Europe — and movement away from the warring nations of the Mid-East.
Those coups are what has kept Turkey tied to secular government instead of becoming like the Taliban.
I agree
I agree
Yes, I had read that before. Also had read that the military has always kind of guarded a more secular stance of government.
I figured a coup would eventually happen when Islam gained more control.
Its a saftey valve.
Exactly so. Thats one reason why I personally favor bringing Turkey into the EU.
All bringing Turkey into the EU will do is bring an overtly Islamist presence into the EU. Turkey is going to fall to sharia, and I think Obama will encourage this. In fact, he probably already has - I’m sure this alleged military plot was probably “discovered” by US sources in order to provide the Turkish Islamists with a sort of Reichstag Fire moment.
So letting Turkey into the EU would mean bringing in a teetering, massively unstable country which will very soon become a leading proponent of Islamicization. I’m not sure this is what the EU needs right now.
I read this wrong. I thought Turkey arrested them for plotting soup.
Interrogating eh, I wonder if they are using any “enhanced interrogation” techniques.
>>Those coups are what has kept Turkey tied to secular government instead of becoming like the Taliban.
Precisely so.
Pournelle has addressed this several times. Here’s a good short essay that briefly touches on the formation of modern Turkey by Kemal Ataturk, and how his forced modernization still affects actions being taken today. This from 2007, so what is going on now has been percolating for a good while.
The Crisis in Turkey
http://jerrypournelle.com/archives2/archives2view/view465.html#Turkey
Another more recent commentary by Pournelle on the issue of Turkey’s Kemalists vs. Islamists, with some very good regional geopolitical analysis. You will see that he does not have much good to say about Carter and the State Dept.
Crisis in Turkey (7/2008)
http://www.jerrypournelle.com/view/2008/Q3/view528.html#Turkey
I will comment that Pournelle is the *only* commentator who was against invading Iraq from before the invasion that I respect. Don’t stop reading because you think he’s not a conservative; his credentials are solid.
One could say the same for the United States, these days...
were they coups or the military upholding the turkish commitment to a secular government...
watch your semantics and do not be spun into believing that the coups were good or the military bad.
teeman
hopefully the end is near.
Britain, France and Germany are already Muslim countries and they run the EU. What’s the diff?
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