Ali Bardakoğlu Resigns
Claire Berlinski, Ed. ·
Nov 10, 2010 at 11:51pm
Ricochet readers will understand exactly why this is massively significant news. It's deeply ominous. Probably no one else in the English-speaking world will get this. It hasn't been reported in English yet, as far as I can see.
Here's the news in Turkish.
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Jul '10
Re: Ali Bardakoğlu Resigns
Who will replace him?
Re: Ali Bardakoğlu Resigns
His deputy, Mehmet Gormez. Who's a good guy. But obviously this resignation is a sign of something--what, exactly, is unclear; it's being reported that he failed to support the government on the Kurdish and Alevi issues. He was apparently scheduled to step down in January anyway, which makes this doubly ominous.
Sep '10
Re: Ali Bardakoğlu Resigns
The google translation of the article brought back painful memories of Latin classes long ago when I was admonished to get the sense from the syntax and not the other way around but I over came the trauma well enough to understand stand a little. Wonder if it will be played as some trivia about head scarfs when it is obviously about power.
Re: Ali Bardakoğlu Resigns
If any one sentence sums up all of Turkish politics, yours just did.
Jul '10
Re: Ali Bardakoğlu Resigns
The search for moderate Muslims suffers another setback. Is there a smaller haystack we can look in?
Re: Ali Bardakoğlu Resigns
According to recent news, Indonesia is a hotbed of moderation, except when it comes to touching women to whom you're not related.
Nov '10
Re: Ali Bardakoğlu Resigns
Ms. Berlinski, is the power of the Army still intact? From what I have read, it is the flywheel of the country, keeping the remainder of it from darting off onto some radical course.