They're a ****ing Islamist party, Islamist parties don't get elected if there isn't Islamic extremism within the country and they sure as hell don't get elected as controlling party.
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Could you be any more off the mark? Moderate Islamic parties makes the population "extremist"? Your argument is so off course its borderline racist. Firstly, the AKP may have an "Islamic agenda", but they are NOT an Islamic party per se. They have conservative views, sure, but no more than the Christian Democrat party and Germany is hardly a bastion of Christian extremism. :roll:
The saadet party on the other hand is, but they have less than 2% of the countries vote.
They where elected NOT because of there religious affiliation, but because the CHP at the time was being run by a scandalous republican pig who praised the Dersim massacre of the Kurds recently, and the AKP where the only ones promising reforms. That idiot made a porn tape though and he resigned from the pressure his party placed on him. If we where even close to being the illiberal fascist Islamic country you make us out to be, he would have been hanged. But point is, we are not. I live in Turkey, and its as opened minded as any other place in Europe. Hell, the MHP released a parody video just to make them look worse!
The only thing that has stopped them from achieving their Islamic agenda is the secular Constitution which explicitly prevents them from doing what they really want to do.
Exactly. Which is why my countries progression of Westernism in a foriegn policy sense may have stumbled a little as a result, but will not regress to become Iran, exactly BECAUSE of this constitution.
We have too many nationalists, too strong an army and too many deep state organizations run by Kemalists (deep state organizations in Turkey are underground political groups that essentially control the political scene in Turkey. There almost considered a conspiracy theory, but we know from Ergenekon, for example, that they are around, and they can be compared to the likes of the Illuminati in that sense) for your worries to ever manifest.
We adopted enlightenment and European ideal's over Islamism, and though our Democracy is not perfect, we at least are trying to better it.
Our place is among NATO and Europe. If you think otherwise just because we disagree with Israel, despite reserving the right to do so, then you couldn't be any more hypocritical. David Cameron was in our Parliament not long ago describing Gaza as an "open air" prison. We are NOT the only ones in Europe who disagree with SOME of Israel's policies. It does NOT make us extremists.
