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Mr.Erdoğan's understanding of democracy: A bus ride!

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Turkish PM views democracy as ‘bus ride,’ says Jordanian King Abdullah


Erdoğan is merely promoting a softer version of Islamism, the king told the Atlantic magazine in an interview. “Erdoğan once said that democracy, for him, is a bus ride,” King Abdullah said. “‘Once I get to my stop, I’m getting off,’ [Erdoğan said].” King Abdullah paid a two-day official visit to Turkey earlier this month, where he shed tears as he visited Anıtkabir, the mausoleum dedicated to Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, founder of modern Turkey.
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MIDEAST - Turkish PM views democracy as


According to Democracy Ranking, Turkey is ranked 65 between 2007-2011, 3 places lower. ( http://www.democracyranking.org/downloads/2012/Scores_of_the_Democracy-Ranking-2012.htm )


According to RSF, Turkey is ranked 148 2011/2012, 10 places lower. ( Press Freedom Index 2011-2012 - Reporters Without Borders )

According to Mr. Erdoğan, he said in 1990s that the democracy is a tool and not a goal; in the interwiev with Wsj in 2010; He answered a question about that, and his reply was that I still think the same.
 
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According to Mr. Erdoğan, he said in 1990s that the democracy is a tool and not a goal
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The Nazis used the same approach to gain power in Germany. Islamists at the time alligned themselves with the Nazis.

Is it any wonder that they learned a thing or two from their association?
 
i agree with you, especially they gianed power via propaganda like Erdoğan does.
 
A king either misrepresented Erd or flat-out threw him under the bus, and then cried at Superturks's grave. What kind of guest is that?

That king needs to get on the bus.
 
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i agree with you, especially they gianed power via propaganda like Erdoğan does.
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I just hope for the sake of people like you and Medusa that his tenure is short lived, and your country can return to more of a Kemalist type government.
 
Gardener said:
I just hope for the sake of people like you and Medusa that his tenure is short lived, and your country can return to more of a Kemalist type government.
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I join you in that hope.
 
Why is this in the Europe subforum... Turkey is not in Europe and this is a matter that strictly concerns Turkey.
 
Part of Turkey's in Europe, and they're two faced like the rest of us Europeans :mrgreen:

Anyways, pm the mod if you think a post or thread doesn't belong. This will get you nowhere other than a mod telling you to use the proper channels.
 
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I just hope for the sake of people like you and Medusa that his tenure is short lived, and your country can return to more of a Kemalist type government.
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...Thank you for your sincere wish.

People have some habits to anything they face or challenge; Some people learn in hard way, which is to live through and then learn; on the other hand, some people learn in easy way, which is to think through or learn by other experiences; in the case of Turkey; 50% of Turkish voters, Erdoğan's followers, want to learn in hard way; so we have to wait till they learn there is nothing but more pain coming for them as in Egypt or Iraq.



ps: Rainman, get over it!
 
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