Turkish ruling party deputy says 'the Ottomans are back,' but 'janissaries' protest AKP

A deputy from the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) recently declared that ?the Ottoman Empire has returned,? but the government has since faced its own ?janissary rebellion," when public servants dressed as Ottoman janissary soldiers protested in front of a local AKP headquarters.

Tülay Babu?çu, a deputy representing the western Turkish province of Bal?kesir, praised the unprecedented welcoming ceremony hosted by President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an on Jan. 14 in a Twitter message: ?Magnificent wisdom... The wisdom of our esteemed president. The 90-year-long commercial break of a 600-year-old empire is now over.? 

Babu?çu, a pharmacist by profession, works in several friendship commissions in Parliament, including for Egypt and Morocco, two former Ottoman states.
A day after the attention-grabbing tweet was posted, a group of angry public servants protested the government in the northwestern province of Bursa on Jan. 15 - dressed as Ottoman janissary soldiers.

The protesting members of Kamu-Sen, a union of public servants, burned their payrolls in front of the provincial headquarters of the AKP, claiming that the rise in their salaries was lower than the inflation rate.

Speaking in front of the costumed ?janissaries,? Kamu-Sen provincial representative Selçuk Türko?lu said their rights had been ?usurped.? 

?They are building palaces, but they say there is no money for public servants,? Türko?lu added, referring to the controversial 1,150-room presidential palace in Ankara that was recently opened on the order of Erdo?an.

As the elite infantry units of the empire, the Janissary Corps formed the core of the Ottoman military for centuries. The janisseries revolted for higher salaries on several occasions...