COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE BY PATRICK COCKBURN IN THE
INDEPENDENT
"President
Erdogan could be using the coup against him to turn Turkey towards full-scale
Islamisation"
Patrick Cockburn, I believe you really do have it wrong
here.
The error you make is a common one in the press.
Erdogan is using (manipulating) the coup for sure.
But not for the purposes of Islamization, our present
world's favorite demon word, endlessly chanted by press and politicians.
Erdogan uses (manipulates) Islam for his own political
ambitions.
In this he much resembles the right wing of the Republican
Party a couple of decades ago when they were exploiting Christian
fundamentalists and "family values."
The danger from Erdogan is authoritarianism and state
terror.
The authoritarianism is already there. So are elements of
terror including his treatment of Kurds, opponents, Syrians, and others.
The man is a genuine megalomaniac, as we can plainly see
from his recently completed 1000-room palace, an unbelievably ugly and graceless
monument to himself.
