Good News! More Democracy in Turkey!
Claire Berlinski, Ed. ·
Sep 28, 2010 at 2:34am
Turkish police have apparently detained former police chief Hanefi Avcı. His recently-published book alleges that Fethullah Gülen has covertly taken over control of the state.
Let this be a warning to you, Kenneth.
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May '10
Re: Good News! More Democracy in Turkey!
Liberty may succumb to despotism, but irony is invulnerable.
Jul '10
Re: Good News! More Democracy in Turkey!
Check out the tone of the reporting in Fethullah Gulen's Today's Zaman:
http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/news-222893-avci-detained-after-failing-to-testify-on-links-to-terrorist-group.html
I'll leave commenting on it up to the reader(s).
May '10
Re: Good News! More Democracy in Turkey!
If they must have a dictatorship, can't they at least make it a military dictatorship? A police dictatorship is sort of lame.
Re: Good News! More Democracy in Turkey!
For anyone who wants to begin to grasp just how hard to figure out exactly what's going on when someone like this is arrested, here's a good place to start. The newspaper and the author are associated with Gülen, but this is not an entirely stupid piece of analysis. As I've said before of the Ergenekon arrests, many of the accused are, if not guilty as charged, guilty of something. Clean hands are hard to find in Turkey. Avcı may well be guilty of something. But the timing of his arrest stinks to high heaven, as the timing of these arrests generally does.