some hints for latest unrests.. "The ancient regime based on military-bureaucratic guardianship claimed that Turkey was “surrounded by seas from 3 sides, but enemies from 4 sides” i.e. everyone was our enemy; that “there is no friend to a Turk except another Turk”; that the whole world was against us; that there are not only “external enemies” but “internal enemies” too. Now in the new regime, we believe that these prepositions are nothing but a bunch of baseless, junk slogans used as instruments of ideological indoctrination. We now believe that we can be friends with all our neighbors; that there is no “internal enemy” but there could only be “criminal citizen”; that there are a lot of non-Turkish friends of Turkey around the world. For the first time in our Republican history, those military officers and bureaucrats who paved in the past the ways to military interventions are giving account before the Court. Citizens are now comfortably express themselves and their demands from the government; they are released from the ideological, legal and political chains they have been tied with for decades. And, again, for the first time in our Republican history, the Kurdish and the resulting terror problem is on the way to be solved through peaceful means. When the government respects the beliefs, customs, dress codes and life styles of the people, when the citizens start to breathe comfortably, that is, when they are free, then the ground is ready for recovery, growth, and development."
Posted on: Sat, 08 Jun 2013 15:07:54 +0000
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