The current mayhem, if it continues, is likely to once again tempt the military top brass to stage a coup and take power in the name of restoring order as it has done several times earlier.
With three bomb attacks this year including two massacres, many ask if the dark days of the Turkish deep state have come back to torment Turkey.
The recent and ongoing clashes taking place between members of the Kurdish and Turkish diasporas in Europe reflect the violent transnationality of this conflict.
This is an excerpt from the regular briefing for the Friends of Cyprus in the UK .
What we have witnessed in the last two years, culminating in the horrible scenes of 10 October in Ankara, is the end of the Turkish Republic as we know it.
The Government’s immediate response was to enforce a media ban throughout Turkey, rather than attending to the needs of its beleaguered citizens.
Is Turkey poised on the brink of the violent conflict of the 90s? Or does the entry of the pro-Kurdish People's Democratic Party (HDP) into Parliament offer shoots of hope for an alternative path?
Depending on who one believes the country is either on the brink of civil war, or instead heroically participating in the Global War on Terror.
It is clear that the PKK-focused, national security oriented ‘new politics’ is the main factor that consumes Turkey’s energy.
“You are in the best position to save your country, as was your great enemy in Syria. Is the lesson of his misrule playing no part in your current thinking?”
On the history of anarchism in Turkey and establishing alternatives to the current system through self-organisation, mutual aid and co-operatives.
