Just laughter…

Often, it is claimed Turkish political-Islam has been consolidating itself in power through a step-by-step disguised secret agenda. Wrong. These guys have been doing it openly all the way down, but some people insist on not seeing and reading what is exposed so clearly.

Did the man climbing the stairs to the presidency nowadays not declare two decades ago that democracy was like “a train car to get on, travel until the wanted destination and get off?” What has he and his political-Islam clan done since then? Did they not travel on the democracy wagon as much as it served them, but abandon it whenever democracy and democratic norms, values and landmarks contradict, if not totally confronted their tainted utopias?

Was it not the same democratic prime minister who publicly declared that owners of media outlets should know who to put and who to avoid at the windows of their shops? Definitely journalists, intellectuals or writers of this society cannot be the window dressing of any businessmen, that’s not the issue, but what the premier said was obvious. Yet, he elaborated, saying since the owners of media outlets are the ones paying the paychecks of journalists and writers, they must be in a position to tell them what not to write.

Still, he was treated as a democrat, even by most of the people hunted today by the ruling Justice and Development Party’s (AKP) governance, and were crying for some time that a dictatorship was in the making in the country. Were not the same people coalition partners of that dictatorship setting in the country? Yes, but during those years, it was not them who were hunted; at the target were the Kemalists, nationalists, patriots, academia, judiciary and the military or elements in those institutions...