Turkish politics has moved to another level, I’m afraid.
Now it’s nothing more than a small merry band made of distant cliques driven by one single goal. Allocating the wealth of nation for their own end and shaking hands on dividing, trenching out people and destroying the country at the end. And yet, despite their small numbers, they dominate the entire populace in blocks while the latter sheepishly submit their existence to them in return.
It’s like a plot from 70s Hammer horror films where the entire town was put under the spell of a fiendish cult and worshipping their masters.
The metaphor irks you think but it’s so clear and visible.
Sadly, I think this was always going to be the result of the Republic, given that the Ottoman sultans spent the entire 1800s combating this type of short-sighted greed by local popular rulers who constantly tried to hollow out the state.
Turkish culture requires a constant unifying force to counter the population's self-destructive impulses. During the 1800s, it was the Ottoman sultans and the institutions they were trying to create. Still, after the republic was founded, it was the military, which in turn was a by-product of the Ottoman Sultan's legacy.
But do to the very nature of the government, Atatürk founded a republic, which put the military in a subordinate role, thus, to the very force that it was established to resist.
The biggest irony of Turkish politics is that AKP praises the Ottoman Empire will destroy its most important legacy left to the Turkish people, all the while cursing Atatürk, whose decisions paved the way for them to get control of the very state apparatus and run around unchecked.
