A look at the new fight between Erdogan and the seculars

According to the report of the international group Tasnim News Agency, There is a new fight between Erdogan and his opponents, which has attracted the attention of many experts and analysts of this country.

As can be predicted. This time it is Erdogan who started the fight. He has shown that as a politician with more than 30 years of experience, he wants to be active and not reactive. Because in his opinion, in this way he can take the initiative and make the management of the game and political controversy be in his own hands and not in the hands of the opposing parties.

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, as the President of Turkey and the leader of the conservative and Islamist AK Party or Justice and Development Party, in one of his recent speeches, jumped into the political trend of Turkey in a way that, like it, even among the leaders There is no precedent for the rapid movement of selfies in this country. /1402111818182214729345194.jpg”/>

Turkish analysts believe that the new war that Erdogan has launched with the secular trend in Turkey is another sign of his pragmatism and party motivation. And an important election lies in this fight.

Why did Erdogan start a fight?

In the early days of spring, Erdogan promised in his election campaigns that in the short term, the US dollar in the third period His presidency will fall below 20 lira. But now 8 months have passed since the beginning of the second term of Erdoğan’s responsibility, and the dollar in Turkey is an unprecedented 31 lira at the border of several Ghorushi.

However, Erdogan He made the elections more secure and said in the same days: “If these opposition parties come to power, the survival of the country will be in danger.” Should our concern be the rise and fall of the price of onions or the security of the country?” In the remaining elections, he is still looking for propaganda tricks and makes even the opponents not talk about the economy and actually fall into the trap of his fights.

He has already He calls his opposition parties traitors, mercenaries, enemies, accomplices of separatists, accomplices of terrorists, dependent on foreign powers and weak and unwilling. But now he has created a new story and unveiled this attribute: “enemies of religion”.

Ali Sirman, one of the analysts of Cumhuriyet newspaper, wrote about the new lawsuit and Erdogan’s accusation against the opposition: “In the days when the conflicts between Israel and Hamas drew the world’s attention, the Justice and Development Party took advantage of this situation and Under the banner of supporting Palestine, it has launched an internal dispute. Erdoğan pretends that opposing Israel depends on opposing the likes of Turkey! The party under Erdogan’s leadership pretends that the only way to support Palestine is to take power of the political system based on Sharia law in all countries. Of course, Erdogan and his party’s reading of Islamic governance is something similar to the Ottoman Caliphate! Do you think Erdoğan and his party are really doing such a thing to support Gaza and Islam? Of course not. They want to remove the secular democratic republic and establish a rule of their own accord. As if the time of anti-secularists and their opponents has come! But the problem is that Turkish seculars are not looking for a fight. Rather, the current that makes the environment for conflict inevitable is the ruling party. This is the same party that sought to bring the Brotherhood to power in other countries, but it did not succeed. As if the Justice and Development Party wants to complete the unfinished game of the Brotherhood”.

Ali Sirman further pointed to Erdoğan’s pragmatic and contemporary nature and wrote: Erdogan, on the other hand, claims that he is currently on the verge of becoming one of the main bastions of political Islam. But on the other hand, he is preparing to meet with Abdel Fattah Sisi! That is, one of the destroyers of the moderate Islam model of the Brotherhood in Egypt! Unaware that a big game is going on. The nature of this game is as follows: America was looking for a submissive government that would easily cope with the radicalization of Egypt. In the case of Turkey, the Justice and Development Party has lost its trust in the Westerners, but at the same time, it is allowed to maneuver and play as much as the masters of the game have designed for it. For example, one of Ankara’s duties is not to cause trouble for countries like Sweden and Finland. This is a political line full of contradictions, which on the one hand claims Sharia law, and on the other hand, completely aligns itself with the orders and demands of imperialism!”

From opposing clerics to accompanying them

Some of the newspaper Famous writers in Turkey have a habit of archiving the important parts of Erdogan’s speeches, mentioning the date and source, in order to reveal the contradictions of his positions when necessary.

But Ak Yul also Like dozens of other conservative journalists, he got off the train of his friends a long time ago and is now writing against the president and the ruling party.

Ak Yul, who Fikri, who is close to the political approaches of Gol, Davutoğlu and Babajan, wrote about the importance of Erdogan’s new attack on the opposition: “The president made some unprecedented remarks during his speech at the graduation ceremony of religious officials of the religious academy. He openly defended the concept of Sharia and considered hostility to Sharia as hostility to religion itself”.

It is important to mention that according to the Turkish Constitution, The secularism and perfectionism of the Republic of Turkey are unchangeable principles, and the exact meaning of the concept of Sharia in Turkish political literature is considered to be an attack to overthrow the republican system, and the defense of Sharia means that all criminal, civil, and lifestyle laws must be , to be designed based on the teachings of Islam. Meanwhile, the likes of Turkey do not go under such a burden and consider this approach as an enemy to the Republic of Turkey.

Ak Yul says: The religious-secular dichotomy wants to gather votes and erase the country’s economic and legal problems from people’s minds. He probably hoped that the new leader of the People’s Republic Party would vigorously defend secularism, but Özel did not do so and did not fall into the trap of Erdoğan’s words, and Kılıçdaroğlu before him also did not engage in such sterile debates. class=”CxSpMiddle” dir=”RTL”>Ak Yul continues to write: “Erdogan is a politician who fought against bank interest to gather votes and considers it as an enemy to God.” But in another speech, he declares that taking interest from the bank is part of the realities of life in the modern world. Let’s not forget, it was Erdogan who did an important thing in the history of the Republic of Turkey and decriminalized adultery.

Before Erdogan came to power, adultery In any case, it was considered a crime. However, at Erdogan’s request, the law was changed and he himself considered such an action as updating Islam and said in one of his speeches on March 8, 2018: “Some clerics have sharp and very different jurisprudential statements about women that It has absolutely no place in our religion. I do not know! They either don’t live in this century, or they live in a very different world. They are too weak to know that Islam needs to be updated. The rules of Islam have been updated. You cannot implement Islam today with the rules of 14 or 15 centuries ago”. In Islam, we have something called ijtihad and not updating! Erdogan should know. The task of politics is not to define religion, but to create an academic space where these issues can be explored deeply and freely. Politics should not interfere in issues that need deep research. Even in history, the caliphs did not interfere in religion and left it to Shaykh al-Islam”.

In the end, it should be said, the review of Erdogan’s positions on Islam, Islamic movements parties inside Turkey, how many and how to establish relations with the East and West, compromise or not compromise with the opposition and also to key the broad project of normalizing regional relations, especially the relationship with the Zionist regime, confirms the fact that he and the Justice and Development Party , are promoters and supporters of a pragmatic type of politics whose internal and external goals serve the power of the party and are not directly related to beliefs and values.

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