Het is algemeen geweten dat de meeste mensen graag iedereen over een zelfde kam scheren. Als men over een bepaalde bevolkingsgroep heeft wil iedereen er hetzelfde over denken, of beter gezegd, denkt iedereen dat zij het zelfde zijn.
‘Er is geen weldenkend mens dat gelooft dat twee miljard christenen
allemaal hetzelfde geloven, en toch hoor je dat wel vaak over de 1,6
miljard moslims.
In het Westen zijn moslims zo in de minderheid dat het
voor de meeste mensen moeilijk is om een onderscheid te maken tussen de
islam van alledag en de extreme excessen. Het probleem bijvoorbeeld in
Turkije is niet de islam, zoals veel mensen zeggen, het probleem is een
dictatoriale en maniakale Erdogan. Niemand zal zeggen dat de Amerikaanse
president transgenders wil weren uit het leger vanwege Jezus. Maar de
islam wordt altijd gezien als bron voor politieke besluiten.’
zegt Reza Aslan die opgroeide als moslim in Iran, met zijn familie naar
Amerika vluchtte en er christen werd om zich vervolgens weer tot de islam te
bekeren.
Erdogan is continuing to clean up his country, making sure all those who could ever say something against him shall be taken out of the way.
It did not end by 8,800 policemen, 6,000 soldiers, 2,700 judges and
prosecutors, dozens of governors, and more than 100 generals – or just
under one-third of the general corps. More than 30,000 teacher shall not be there to give classes and educate the citizens about the human rights and to show them what went wrong in the last centuries so that they could avoid such historical missteps again.
Already before the coup several newspapers and blogs were silenced, but now also some 20 news websites critical of
the government have also been blocked.
The Turkish government says it is carrying out a legitimate security
operation to safeguard the country in the aftermath of a failed coup
that came close to toppling the elected president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in the early hours of Saturday morning.
For the Turkish government all those who have links to Fethullah Gülen, the US-based Islamic cleric are also responsible for the more than 300 dead at the weekend.
Large swaths of the population back the actions by the president,
whom they idolise for boosting Turkey’s economy and representing the
country’s lower classes. In Europe we can see daily thousands of enthusiast carrying the Turkish flag and shouting "Erdoğan". But not only in Turkey we see pro-Erdoğan
rallies since the weekend. In Belgium several Erdoğan fans made life sour to other minded Turks or to those they think responsible, though they live here in Belgium.
Many Turks consider this present president the father of the re-risen nation, Turkey never having seen this kind of president or prime
minister. For many Turks, even those living abroad Erdoğan’s perceived achievements since reaching power in
2003 lifted the country and made a better life for the Turks.
“No other president or prime minister achieved what he has done – in
economic terms, in charitable terms, and in patriotic terms. There’s
such a difference, a world of difference, in our lifestyle. Healthcare
has especially improved. We have opportunities, and we have options.”
In France the situation got so bad the president and his entourage thought it advisable to extend the state of emergency.
In the wake of the failed coup of Friday July 15 the Turkish president who took unseen unprecedented measures has also declared a state of emergency.
Turkey’s parliament has approved a three-month state of emergency, on Thursday
by 346 votes to 115, which will allow the government to rule by decree,
passing bills that have the force of law unless they are overturned by
parliament, where the majority of MPs belong to the ruling Justice and
Development party.a bill declaring a state of
emergency in the wake of last weekend’s coup attempt and informed the
Council of Europe of a partial withdrawal from the European convention
on human rights.
At the same time we in Europe could be surprised that Erdogan could so quickly know who was behind the coup and had already on the day after so many people arrested we can question if this not was prepared in advance.
A member of the military is arrested in Turkey.EPA
The secretary general of
the Council of Europe required Turkey to provide regular updates on the measures taken under the state of
emergency, according to the terms of the treaty.
Turkey initially said it had informed the Council of Europe that it
would suspend the convention entirely, a more wide-ranging measure
likely to have drawn criticism from allies.
“Turkey will derogate the European convention on human rights insofar
as it does not conflict with its international obligations,”
the deputy
prime minister, Numan Kurtulmuş, was quoted as saying by the state-run
Anadolu news agency, in a corrected statement.
Kurtulmuş said Turkey would take the step “just like France has done”
under article 15 of the convention, which allows signatory states to
derogate certain rights, including freedom of movement, expression and
association, during times of war or a major public emergency.
But we do have do question if Turkey is really willing to respect the human rights, because what we could see already on television shows that they have no respect at all for those international laws of defence and human dignity.
The European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) may be vague about the conditions that constitute an emergency, so in some
ways, it’s not clear whether what is happening in Turkey constitutes
one.
It is not because Erdogan may be elected in a democratic way that he is keeping to democratic laws and is respecting human laws of freedom. even a democratic elected person can not be above the law. An independent and functioning judiciary is fundamental
to this. Erdoğan’s purging of the judiciary in Turkey is deeply
worrying, to say the least.
English: Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Prime Minister of Turkey at Çanakkale Türkçe: Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Başbakanı (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday July the 3rd inaugurated a mosque
on the grounds of his gigantic palace complex and opened it to the
public in an apparent effort to stave off more criticism over his
spending.
Erdogan, who has been accused of squandering state
resources by building the grandiose 1,150-room presidential palace,
dedicated the mosque to the people at the opening ceremony, naming it
the "Bestepe People's Mosque."
The new mosque, with four 60 meter-high (200 feet)
minarets, can accommodate up to 3,000 worshippers and is one of Ankara's
largest. Erdogan described its design as a fusion of architectures from
the Ottoman and Seljuk eras.
The president has dismissed criticism over his
expenditure and has recently moved away from calling the presidential
premise a "palace," using the term "presidential complex" instead. He
insists that the complex belongs to the people and that he is its
"temporary occupant." Officials have said that a congress hall and one
of Turkey's biggest libraries, which are under construction at the site,
will also be open to the public.
The ruling party, founded by Erdogan, lost its
parliamentary majority in last month's elections, in a blow to Erdogan's
ambitions to turn the largely ceremonial presidency into an executive
post.
Opposition parties had made the palace a theme of their
election campaigns, forcing him on the defensive and to even deny that
it had gold-plated toilet seats. In a television interview, he also
justified the construction by saying his old office when he was prime
minister was infested with cockroaches.
Last year, Erdogan shrugged off criticism that the
complex was illegally built on protected land saying: "Let them knock it
down if they have the power."
