Previous Week whole world’s attention in Turkey Coup Attempt and its failure. People of Turkey entered to the streets to defend the coup. From the Formation of Republic of Turkey ,Three times army had overthrown the ruling government.The Coup in Turkey failed for first time, Turkish Government alleging the coup was organized by the Islamic Cleric Fethullah Gulen who were in a self-made exile in America.Political analysts says the Coup attempt failure is the changing attitude of Turkish people towards Religious Fundamentalism, But some political analysts arguing that this coup is a Fabricated Drama by the Current President Recep Tayyip Erdogan because he want to change the constitution to a presidential republic and he need to establish a dictator rule under his presidency. at the same time the Islamic Cleric Gulen denied his role in coup.
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| Turkey Coup attempt |
In
my point of view also this is a political Drama of Erdogan to achieve his goals
to change the constitution in the name of sympathy. Now he fired many judges,
military officers and arrested many government officers and he declared two
month emergency throughout the country and he started to revenge.A Minority in the army engaged in coup making more Questions. I am going to
just explaining Mustafa Kemal Ataturk’s
creation of republic of Turkey and the political circumstances of Turkey before
after Erdogan came to power to strengthen my View.
After
the end of First World War and defeat of Ottoman Empire, an army officer Mr. Mustafa Kemal led a Turkish
nationalist movement in Turkish war of independence and in 1923 he established Republic of Turkey and he became the
first president of the country and he used the Surname ‘Ataturk’ (In Turkish language it means father of Turkey).
Turkey
is a Sunni Muslim Populated nation he made many secular reforms. He ousted the
sharia laws from the constitution and he made a secular constitution. Religious
symbols like Wearing hijab, keeping long beards etc are banned in schools,
government offices and other educational institutions and at the same time the
constitution offered the right to follow the religious activities. The
religious based educations strictly banned. The constitution also offered a
parliamentary republic with President as the head of the state with ceremonial
roles only. Ataturk’s these reforms termed as ‘Kemalism’.
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| Mustafa Kemal Ataturk |
In
2003 Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Justice
and Development Party (In Turkish ‘Adalet Ve Kalkinma Partisi’) or AKP came to Power. Erdogan and his
party beliefs in extremist ideology of Islam. When he came to power Turkey was
in a big financial crisis and the threats from Kurd Terrorist organization for
a separate Kurd Nation. He made many reforms to recover the financial stability
of the nation.as a result the country overcome from the financial crisis and
the construction field got a big boom. These acts increased the popularity.
Gradually
he started to change the constitution from secularism to Islamic
fundamentalism. He added many Islamic elements in education and justified that
he need a pious generation. He lifted the ban on wearing hijab from schools,
colleges and government offices. In 2011 he increased the restrictions on
freedom of speech, freedom of press and he banned the sales and consumption of
alcohols in University campuses. Many people have been given jail sentences for
blasphemy. Before Erdogan the jail sentence or any other kind of punishment for
blasphemy was a subject that Turkish people never heard before.
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| Recep Tayyip Erdogan |
During the time
of election in 2011 Erdogan campaigned for make a referendum to change the
military written constitution to an Islamic constitution. For rewriting the
constitution with referendum his party requires a majority of 330/550 and
without referendum his party has to win a majority of 367 out of 550.but the
AKP party currently holds 326 seats in parliament. Due to the constitution Erdogan
himself barred from a fourth term prime minister ship. He also tried to
increase president’s power from the ceremonial role to executive role. Through
that he wanted to run a dictatorship. Due to these acts In 2013 a group of people
around a number of 8 million gathered in ‘Gezi
park ‘of Istanbul city for protesting against the policy of Erdogan but the
government suppressed the protest.as a result the relation between European Union and Turkey become ruined
and it affected the accession process of Turkey with EU. Erdogan elected as President
in 2014. In 2015 Turkey fired a Russian fighter plane which was involved in the
war against ISIS in Syria. This act ruined the Russia -Turkey relation and it
affected the economy. The inflow of tourists from Russia has stopped and Russia
made many restrictions to Turkish People and there was a rumor that Erdogan
shows a soft corner attitudes towards the ISIS. Russia and other countries
alleging that Turkey is the main barrier to vanish ISIS because they are the
main consumer of ISIS’s smuggled oil. Erdogan’s Government extradited many
foreign media personals.
The
above mentioned activities are pointing that the coup attempt may be the
Fabricated Drama by Erdogan. Through this he may get more supports by the
people in the name of sympathy.
We
have Iran and Afghanistan as best example that how a country will ruin when a
country change from its secular form to Islamic fundamentalism. And also we
know the aftermaths of such reforms in these nations. Also the suppressed
religious fundamentalism for a long decade raised again in Erdogan’s ruling.
Failure of coup attempt also shown the changed attitude of Turkish people
towards the Islamic Fundamentalism. Same way the Khomeini changed the Iran’s Picture.
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