The gradual 'Islamist' coup and probable civil wars in Turkey.

The gradual 'Islamist' coup and probable civil wars in Turkey. (FactsonTurkey).

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is unlike any other previous anti-democratic figure in Turkey.

He has been gradually eroding democracy and dismantling state structures to create an authoritarian one-man regime. The military generals who tried to stage coups or accomplished coups but could not fully control the state must be envying him right now.

Erdoğan has also been eroding the independence of the judiciary. Judges and prosecutors in critical courts are carefully engineered to be either pro-Justice and Development Party (AKP) figures or corrupt guys with skeletons in their closet so that they have to obey the Erdoğan regime.

Superior courts were exceptions, to a certain extent, but with new legislation, he will appoint hundreds of pro-AKP judges to these courts. The Constitutional Court’s membership will also gradually change since upon their retirement, old members will be replaced according to Erdoğan’s wishes.

Similar to the West’s appeasement strategy when it came to Hitler, Erdoğan’s gradual transformation of a democratic country into tyranny has been largely passively watched by Western observers, Turkey’s allies and Turkey’s White Turkish elite.

In a few years’ time, the country can reach a critical point of no return. 

But since he will not be able to make diverse sections of society succumb to his illegitimate and corrupt will, multiple civil wars may erupt in the country: Kurds versus Erdoğan, Alevis versus Erdoğan, radical Islamists versus Erdoğan, ultra-nationalists versus Erdoğan, etc.

It is obvious that in such a turbulent region, an unstable Turkey would pave the way for terrible regional disasters that no power on earth will be able to prevent or stop.

It is high time that the AKP’s wise members and voters, the AKP’s international appeasers and Turkey’s White elite push for the reinstatement of democracy in Turkey as soon as possible. Hmmm.....Amazing that the writer Compares Erdogan to Hitler....guess the link. Read the full story here.