As nationwide protests moved into their fourth day, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan angrily condemned the demonstrators as “extremists,” insisting that they were “walking arm-in-arm with terrorists” and that his government would never give them any concessions.
The protests are showing a remarkably broad spectrum of representation, with seemingly every opposition faction and interest group having a rally of their own somewhere across the nation.
Police continue to crack down on the demonstrators, with hundreds of additional people reported wounded today and unknown numbers of additional detainees. The Public Workers Union (KESK) has announced a two-day strike beginning Tuesday to protest the crackdown.
Erdogan went on to insist that a “Turkish Spring” was impossible because Turkey is a “multi-party system.” Of course, the highest-profile Arab Spring protests were in single party states, but several “multi-party” states, such as Bahrain, also saw massive protests.
With such regime wanting to expend its authority everything becomes the enemy of the state…, in the other hand a terrorist sponsored state or a thieve always thinks that others are either terrorists or a thieve as they are. Look: Erdogan is looking to improve his personal power to next level of Islamization which is the level of Saudis, stealing the total control of a democratic system built by the Turkish people after years being under the control of the Turkish militarism regime.., now this man wants to rule the nation by making the state of the people a totalitarian regime ruled by Islam Saudi style..,
karma- what comes around goes around…and those who live in glass houses….
all these cliches come to mind….yet there seems an element of truth.
the turkish government' has played on behalf of its powerful friends in US/Israel and the gulf states a very negative hypocritical role- rather aggressive role- in undermining its neighbour syria. It seems that Turkish people have a number of grievances which a heavy hand will only inflame…..i look forward to people of the gulf states lighting fires under their dictator's feet. by demanding economic reforms/redistribution of wealth, human rights and freedoms…. hopefully turkish government will pull back from its syria folly and mind its own business…..every person in the ME deserves the right to be free, to have their human rights respected, to have their property respected, to be safe from the threat of violence [ whether from the state or individual groups] to be themselves ….just as people in the west have enjoyed until recent times,,,
Most events like this have many back stories often suppressed. Who is paying for this? Is foreign money mobilizing "rent-a mobs"? The convicted felon George Soros is one possibility. More likely this is being bankrolled in part out of Tel Aviv as FM Avigdor Lieberman threatened.
Contributing factors are seldom the whole story. There likely is no whole story. But these outbursts follow the "color revolution" template. The world press is falling in line.
Turkey has been acting too uppity for the liking for the racist Zionist regime. This is the usual Israeli tactic of piggybacking off of minor local disputes and then orchestrating worldwide attention through their influence in the media.
Israel is trying to show Turkey that it is only a minor player in the Middle East and that an independent foreign policy that reflects the democratic will of the Turkish people will not be tolerated by the neighborhood thugocracy. A complete explanation? No. A sine qua non? Very possible. A factor? Safe bet..
The terrorists usually run the government, regardless of ideology.
Look in the mirror, Mr. Erdogan. You will see a true terrorist staring back.
As one reads about the Turkish upheaval in the newspapers or hears about it on TV or the radio,one feels that the most important question is not being answered. Namely, why are these people doing dangerous things against Erdogan? Are they jealous of his freedom? Did they pray last night and hear God tell them to rise up? Or maybe they wanted to save some trees?
The scope and scale of the brutal crackdown on the peaceful protesters by autocratic, tyrannical, despotic, Mad Dictator Erdogan is being covered up by the US lame-stream.
This is what is not being shown:
http://youtu.be/3L4hwPzxZHc
http://youtu.be/MFR7IyCqbHI
http://youtu.be/z8TXtjrdfj0
http://youtu.be/ERbjTziz2TQ
http://youtu.be/D43AQsSK934
Turkish gov't is elected. The military acts as guarantor of stability, secularism, and democracy. Erdogan is hardly an autocratic. tyrannical, despotic, yadda yadda yadda all the mainstream news descriptions of leaders America doesn't approve of. .
This deranged psychopath thinks he's the new Sultan Caliph. Who exactly "elected" the Mad Autocratic Tyrant Dictator Erdogan, and how was he elected? Was Chancellor Hitler "elected"?
Guy's a democratically elected idiot. The whole M.E. and his own people were enthralled by him after he gave Israel the finger for Mavi Marmara and his govt. promised "zero problems" with its neighbors…fast forward to the present and his support of Syrian terrorists is winning him few close friends…and all the commentators were for years saying Turkey was getting "too Islamic"…another large Muslim country going into chaos mode, it makes Israel happy, again.
The ones as Erdogan which are talking about democracy are the one that elected with the Saudis, the Swedish and Germans Neo fascism money to show their real ugly face one day.., this is that day.., now they are showing their brutality and their dictatorial mentality.., this is kind of "democracy" waiting to happen even in EU and USA.., Erdogan is the Turkish puppet elected by the NATO militarism regime.., used for harboring terrorism and doing everything in their power to sideline the Turkish democracy.., USA and EU are well aware of Erdogan government involvement in being a state sponsored terrorist running a police state.., after seeing the videos.., only a sick or a non human entity of a inhuman system would attack people as these police and the turkish secret services have done…,