An official meeting of European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, European Council President Charles Michel, and Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan got off to an awkward start when the three leaders walked into a meeting room where only two seats were prepared.
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More misogynistic behaviour from Muslim leaderz
To me looks like Europeans staged it that way or maybe Turks didn't know she'll be there too??
They're coming after Erdogan hard man. They tried with Obama still in power in 2016 via the secularist military.
Turkish military has a history of harshly enforcing militant secularism whenever they felt the state was becoming too "Islamist" They took out Adnan Menderes and Çelal Bayar when they loosened some of the despotic laws made by Ataturk. I.e opening thousands of mosques, allowing the azan in Arabic once again and opening imam hatips/nadrassas. This was the 60s.
In 70s it was a musical chairs between generals and prime ministers.
80s rolled around and brought a great deal of struggle between the left wing Kemalists and the right wing "Islamists".
This is offcource not a comprehensive history of Turkey. And I am not a historian.
From this brief and incomplete timeline(from my part). We can see that it has been a tennis match between the Left wing Kemalists and the right wing "Islamists". Where in one instance the Right Wing was able to do away with some draconian laws against Islam like the Azan in Turkish etc. The other side was able to reposte with the Hijab ban for instance.
I think Erdoğan has done a great job of trying to strike a reasonable balance between the hardcore Kemalist khooni liberals and the conservative muslims. I think Sumeyye Erdogan put it beautifully in her speech at the ICNA convention that it was sad to see Turkey being held hostage by an elite left wing class centered on the Western part of Turkey with Istanbul as their bastion. While the rest of the country are moderate to conservative muslims.
But just like in Pakistan how Western elements provoke and make use of khooni liberals. Similarly Turkey has a fair share of khooni liberals. They can be easily found on Reddit. As they belong to a class that has access to english education. In their minds Erdoğan is a shaytan. But they are not aware that if they support the West in getting rid of Erdoğan then what will come next. Assuredly a lot of instability. Like the Libyans and Syrians were caught off guard.
When the 2016 coup failed they found the perfect scapegoat Fetullah Gülen.
Coming together is what will make Turkey successful and strong.
Not creating division by banning hijabs, closing mosques, banning azan and closing imam hatips. Otherwise, no difference will be left between China(XinJiang), France(İslamophobia), America(war crimes) and others like Serbia in past. I mean historically a sweeping majority of people in Turkey were muslims since almost a millennia. If you try to erase their identity over night this friction that we see between the right and left in Turkey from 1929 to this day is inevitable. Also passing laws telling Kurds they cannot associate themselves with a Kurdish identity even in an unofficial way is just playing with fire I believe. Imagine if you told the Pashtun they are only Pakistanis and cannot call themselves Afridis or Khans or Yusufzai. Half of Pakistan would be in an insurgency. Like the Turkish East/South East is to this day.
So to conclude I believe the more La ilaha ilallah Turkey, Erdogan or Pakistan, Imran Khan say the more coups, plots and other such things we will see from Western media, western leaders and western organizations. Recently we saw how they have been trying to crush the Lira and CPEC in Pakistan.
A few sources to substantiate my point of view. Feel free to disagree.
The military has intervened directly in Turkish politics three times, and in 1997 carried out a “postmodern coup.”
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And you can easily find the Western sources playing dirty by portraying this sort of impending Islamist doom in Turkey.
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