Back to 'Islamist Turkey' - Davutoğlu sets out to repair '90 years of damage' to the Turkish Republic.

Back to 'Islamist Turkey' - Davutoğlu sets out to repair '90 years of damage' to the Turkish Republic. (HD).

Ahmet Davutoğlu, the sole candidate for the ruling party congress today and likely next prime minister, is set to chart a course of “restoration” in the government’s new program, according a source close to the PM-designate.

“The era of great restoration” was what Davutoğlu spelled out after being nominated as the candidate by President-elect Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Aug. 21. However, the term does not refer to restoring the Ottoman Empire, the Davutoğlu aide stressed to daily Hürriyet.

The new program does not aim to regress 90 years back but rather seeks to repair the republic, democracy, foreign policy and a model of the economy that has been “injured” for the past 90 years, according to the source.

Davutoğlu reportedly told allies that he already had a speech in mind and would emphasize that “We are Turkey all together” and that this call would include references to all ethnic roots.

Separate teams worked on revisions on items to the judiciary, the Constitution and the economy and merged them into one text based on “restoration.”

“Once it is read out in Parliament, you will find information on the 2023 targets, necessary work to improve Turkey in all fields and the vision for action,” the source said.

“Seeing all these, you will notice that the comments on ‘returning to the Ottoman Empire, an Islamic state, are all unreal and baseless,” he added. Hmmmm......the Islamist version of "Das Neue Reich" on it's way?

The West as enemy MT @wolfpiccoli #Davutoglu:"Western powers destroyed the OttomanEmpire;we won't allow them to destroy new #Turkey as well"

— Laura Wells (@wellsla) August 27, 2014