RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN -A DEMOCRATIC DICTATOR
The older I get and the more I see of human activity, I realize the flaws inherent in some people, some of the time, depending on circumstances. Erdogan, the Turkish politician, started off by lying about his interest in keeping Turkey as a secular state ,developed by Mustafa Kemal, better known as Ataturk, who became the leader of Turkey after the disaster suffered by the country by losing the First World War, on the side of Germany. As soon as he was elected, democratically, he began the process of turning the government of Turkey back to its roots of an Islamic state. Erdogan did it slowly in order not to irritate the army which wanted to retain the secular system set up by Ataturk. Turkey had qualified for membership in NATO by being democratic. Erdogan attacked the social media like “twitter, Facebook” etc and began the process of erasing the democracy allowed by the army.
On the night of July 15th 2016 the army attempted a coup which failed miserably because the opposition parties, as much as they feared Erdogan wanted to retain democracy as flawed as it was. Erdogan used the social media, which he had criticized before, to bring out the people in defence of democracy. The coup failed and then Erdogan really went to work. Instead of supporting the democratic process he arrested without any notice about 6000 soldiers, many policemen , prosecutors and judges and fired many more. He did this by declaring a state of emergency which will last for 3 months. Many Turkish citizens died defending the democracy that , it appears, Erdogan wants to eradicate.
Turkey, has the second largest army in NATO, and was the forward bastion of the West against the Soviets but it appears Mr Erdogan values his power more than democracy.
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Name: Murray Rubin
Short Bio: I was born in Toronto in 1931 to a wonderful mother who divorced shortly before my birth. I owe a great deal of my success to her. I am Jewish but not at all religious, yet my culture plays an important part of my personality. I attended Harbord Collegiate and U. of T. Faculty of Pharmacy. A unique mail-order pharmacy was the first of my endeavours in the profession, followed by many stores throughout Ontario. I have a loving wife, 3 children and grand-children and I am now retired from pharmacy. But what do I write about? Everything! My topics are funny, serious, whimsical, timely, outrageous, inspiring, and inventive. I promise that if you take the time to read any one of these topics – you will not be sorry.
