"Ein Volk, Ein Fuhrer, Ein Ummah" - Erdoğan's remarks clear sign he treats Davutoğlu as orderly.

"Ein Volk, Ein Fuhrer, Ein Ummah" - Erdoğan's remarks clear sign he treats Davutoğlu as orderly. (TZ).

Remarks recently uttered by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in which he pushed an independent banking regulatory body to take steps against a private bank and his statements about credit rating agencies reveal that Erdoğan sees Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu as a mere servant.

Erdoğan accused certain leading credit rating agencies of being biased in their ratings of Turkey, warning that the country could cut ties with Moody's and Fitch. “If these [rating agencies] keep behaving in this way, I will tell the prime minister to cut ties with them [Moody's and Fitch]; we have not obtained any gains through them,” Erdoğan told reporters on a return flight from Qatar at the beginning of last week.

It is quite unusual for a president in Turkey -- a parliamentarian democracy and not a presidential system -- to be directly involved in economic issues, which is seen as the realm of the government. Erdoğan's wording -- "I will tell the prime minister to…" -- says a lot about how he sees his role and that of Davutoğlu: A prime minister who is expected to act under instructions from the president.

According to Cengiz Aktar, a senior scholar at the İstanbul Policy Center of Sabancı University, Erdoğan's discourse is a violation of the Constitution as he usurps the powers bestowed on prime minister by the Constitution.

“This [Erdoğan's remarks] is neither natural nor lawful. Erdoğan has no such authority [as per the Constitution]. Turkey is no longer a country where rule of law dominates,” Aktar told Sunday's Zaman. Hmmm.......AAvraham Krispin still remembers how Turkey's prime minister used to walk around school with a copy of Hitler's 'Mein Kampf.' Read the full story here.