Turkey is increasingly being pushed towards a new kind of extremism
When Mustafa Kemal Ataturk established modern Turkey, he envisioned
a nation free from all kinds of fundamentalism, including “Islamism” and “Turkishness”. Perhaps he never knew 90 years hence, some of his followers will push it towards a completely different kind of fundamentalism, best described as militant secularism. In what may seriously damage political stability in West Asia, secularists or Kemalists, as they are called, are in the advance stages of banning the ruling party!
The ruling party's decision to lift a ban on female students wearing the Muslim headscarf at universities was seen as a catalyst for the closure case, the indictment for which is packed with references to the headscarf. A couple of months ago, the Constitutional Court had accepted a case by the Court of Appeals’ Chief Prosecutor, who sought closure of the AK Party.Appeal’s chief prosecutor also wants as many as 71 members of the AK party banned–that includes President Abdullah Gül and Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan–over charges of “breaching Turkey's constitution by supporting Islamist activities.” Senior members of the AK party believe odds are staked heavily against them as most of the 11 Judges hearing the case represent the secular intellectual strata that sees AK as a threat to Kemal’s legacy. Nevertheless experts want to differ. “On what base is the court bearing in mind the closure: a compendium of anecdotes from the unfriendly press? The case is so dubious it is tough to envisage that even the staunchest Kemalists take it at face value,” says Mark R. Parris, a retired career diplomat and an expert at the Brookings Institution’s Turkey Project, while talking to B&E.
AK party has pinned hope on the European Union (EU) to mediate and defuse the matter. EU on its part has criticised the case, saying that the kind of charges raised by the chief prosecutor should be debated in Parliament, not courts
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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2008
When Mustafa Kemal Ataturk established modern Turkey, he envisioned
a nation free from all kinds of fundamentalism, including “Islamism” and “Turkishness”. Perhaps he never knew 90 years hence, some of his followers will push it towards a completely different kind of fundamentalism, best described as militant secularism. In what may seriously damage political stability in West Asia, secularists or Kemalists, as they are called, are in the advance stages of banning the ruling party!The ruling party's decision to lift a ban on female students wearing the Muslim headscarf at universities was seen as a catalyst for the closure case, the indictment for which is packed with references to the headscarf. A couple of months ago, the Constitutional Court had accepted a case by the Court of Appeals’ Chief Prosecutor, who sought closure of the AK Party.Appeal’s chief prosecutor also wants as many as 71 members of the AK party banned–that includes President Abdullah Gül and Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan–over charges of “breaching Turkey's constitution by supporting Islamist activities.” Senior members of the AK party believe odds are staked heavily against them as most of the 11 Judges hearing the case represent the secular intellectual strata that sees AK as a threat to Kemal’s legacy. Nevertheless experts want to differ. “On what base is the court bearing in mind the closure: a compendium of anecdotes from the unfriendly press? The case is so dubious it is tough to envisage that even the staunchest Kemalists take it at face value,” says Mark R. Parris, a retired career diplomat and an expert at the Brookings Institution’s Turkey Project, while talking to B&E.
AK party has pinned hope on the European Union (EU) to mediate and defuse the matter. EU on its part has criticised the case, saying that the kind of charges raised by the chief prosecutor should be debated in Parliament, not courts
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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2008
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