Do you honestly hold these people responsible for not wanting to vote for other parties other than AKP, how can you call them blind followers?
Because they rationalize everything, from Egemen bağış to mock on Islam, to Erdoğan family's giant growth of their wealth. Corrupted ministers.
So, i say "Let say the PM comes to your neighbor's house, his bodyguards held down your neighbor and PM rapes his wife. And you saw it all with your own eyes......would you still vote for him ? " And my AKP voter friends say i won't believe in my eyes (yes, they seriously said that). So, yes most of them blindly following. So, vote as they are receiving aid money. So vote, because they can win contracts unlawfully without competing....etc.. etc..
What are Turkey's experience with those parties the last 5 decades? AKP at least provided certain measures in a time of extreme economic downturn.
Excuse me but certain measures have been lied by Kemal Derviş.
Kemal Derviş - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
AKP reaped off the benefits and had a successful policy to keep the trend upwards. But we can't say AKP on his own rescued the economy.
You are really simplifying things by blaming Erdogan and the AKP for manipulation etc. They should absolutely be criticized, that is not the point,
I'm saying in the first and second of their rule AKP was good economic wise. On their 3rd rule not so good, and now things are looking down.
Watch Bülent Arınç's, Abdullah Gül's recent interview's on youtube. They are also criticizing.
that is not the point, but if our prior experiences with prior governments don't offer any valuable alternative, surely people will continue voting for the AKP.
You would be surprised to know, economic wise, AKP has shown the worst performance among the single party governments. Yeah, they will continue hopefully with a less vote everytime.
I said this yesterday and i will gladly say it again. If i were confident that CHP pr MHP was perfecly capable of steering Turkey into the right direction i would not hesitate one second and vote for them. Erdogan may act like a dictator, but no one in their right mind can deny Turkey had much progress the first 8 years of their governance.
Yeah, i'm saying the same thing. AKP was good at their first 2 term now, they are not. CHP-MHP coalition won't be super a thing to boost country but i believe it will still be better than AKP rule. Infact i believe, any rule will better than AKP rule.
The article says they attempted to take the kid in, not jail him. They would do the same if he cursed M. Kemal or Allah.
Yeap, they put him to jail and as because he was a minor, they let him go.
M. Kemal Ataturk is the leader of the Turkish people. He is our value.
Let's not even discuss about Allah.
Erdoğan is a politician at best. You can't compare him with Atatürk. Let's compare him with his predecessors
Erdoğan'dan önce görev yapan Ahmet Necdet Sezer ve Abdullah Gül zamanında Cumhurbaşkanına hakaret suçundan tek bir kişi dahi cezaevine girmezken Erdoğan'ın 1 yıllık görev süresinde 10'dan fazla kişi hapse girdi, 700'den fazla kişi yargılandı, bunlardan 200'ü davaya dönüştü.
Dokunan Yanıyor! Cumhurbaşkanı'na Hakaretten Bin Yargılama
Even so...6-7% less GDP....20%less population in the Balkans.I don't want to offend Macedonia,Bosnia,Kosovo but these 3 states are bordering "failed states" definition.
I'm not disputing that Turkey is a powerhouse in this areea or in Europe,it's just that "we're soon going to catch Western standards" is simply not going to happen.Plus someone mentioned East European EU members as failed states and that was simply wrong and bordeline idiotic.
Some people just drop logic and held onto sentiments. We are not going to catch Western Standarts any time soon. When saying Western Standarts my people thinks of GDP/Capita. Let's not forget free speech, democracy, free media, being law above everything else, separation of forces within state.
Calling East European EU member states as failed states is something said because of ignorance, nothing else.
Poland is an emerging power like Turkey.
