Gül elected as Turkish president

[Devrim]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/turkey/story/0,,2157641,00.html


Originally posted by The Guardian
Our nation has been watching the behaviour of centres of evil, who systematically try to corrode the secular nature of the Turkish Republic. Nefarious plans emerge in different forms every day.The military will keep its determination to guard social, democratic and secular Turkey.

I think that this opens the road to a coup.

Devrim

[bootleg42]

Any communist movements very active in Turkey at the moment??

[Comrade_Scott]

its a 50/50 cause the army wanted the elections and the people voted the akp in great manner, so mby mby not its all about the first 6months to me

[Cheung Mo]

Don't call them former Islamists. It's about a credible as a Dixiecrat who switched to the GOP and painted themselves as a reformed racist. Fuck that. Their platform blends a moderate interpretation of Shariat with social conservatism, capitalism, and militarism.

[ComradeR]

I think that this opens the road to a coup.
Well i don't know, it is quite possible. Another question is would a coup be a positive thing if this new president attempts to create a new Islamist state? I don't know what to think of it as they both spell repression for the Turkish working class.

Any communist movements very active in Turkey at the moment??
Well there is the PKK that has been fighting in the east, though i know very little about them. And i have heard about other groups in Turkey though I can't remember them right now.

[Cheung Mo]

I supported the coup in Fiji on grounds that Qasarse and his government were racist fucks who were bringing the country on the road to Christian theocracy.

[PigmerikanMao]

Originally posted by [email protected] 29, 2007 10:07 am
Well there is the PKK that has been fighting in the east, though i know very little about them. And i have heard about other groups in Turkey though I can't remember them right now.
The PKK are just Kurdish Nationalists, though there is a Marxist group called Dev Sol that has been fighting the Turkish government since 1978.
(Yup, I'm not posting in italics anymore)

[bolshevik butcher]

Well from what I've been reading the traditional establishment and a wing of the ruling class may well react angrilly to this and launch a coup as has already been suggested. However this will mean clashing with big capital and the other wing of the ruling class that wants to see Turkey join the EU I suppose?

[EKOLYT3]

I don't think there would be a coup, since it would most likely destabilize Turkey's introduction into the EU.