Planned 'Islamist' Security Ministry a clear sign of Turkish dictatorship.

Planned 'Islamist' Security Ministry a clear sign of Turkish dictatorship. (Bugun).

News of the Turkish presidency’s secret plan to form a Security Ministry, which would effectively consolidate the Turkish Armed Forces, police, gendarme, Intelligence Service (MİT) and the related activities of the Prime Ministry, and Ministry of Defense, has already begun to spark controversy.

In the aftermath of the Taraf daily’s piece, penned by Hüseyin Özay, pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Diyarbakır delegate Altan Tan slammed the planned Security Ministry as “a clear sign of dictatorship.”

During his press conference on Monday, he elaborated that the system is “being consolidated under one individual,” current MİT undersecretary Hakan Fidan, “who takes his orders directly from the President.”

According to the Taraf daily, the ministry is expected to come into effect after the 2015 elections.

The ruling AK Party (Justice and Development Party) has recently taken highly controversial measures viewed as an attempt to silence dissent. These include purges in the police and the judiciary and a new proposed law to establish trial courts. Hmmm........"Those who are neutral will be disposed of," Erdogan.