Insane politics

Should the Turkish president have any fear that his future might be similar to that of Egypt's ousted president, Mohamed Morsi? Irrespective of whether there were sufficient reasons or not to merit him having such fears, thank God this country not only abolished the death penalty but also closed that dark chapter of military coups - yes, thanks to a great extent to the Justice and Development Party (AKP) governments of the past 13 years.

Turkey is not Egypt, nor is Egypt Turkey. Even if the current government in office might have some sort of moral or religious allegiance with the ousted Muslim Brotherhood governance of the Arab country, the socio-political traditions of the two countries are for obvious reasons peculiar to each other. If the president himself condemned the death sentence issued by an Egyptian court against Morsi as inappropriate because the ousted president was elected to office with a high 52 percent of the vote, what's wrong if a newspaper makes the same comment in a headline?

Ahaa... The president might have remembered the rather traumatic past of this country, how a prime minister and two ministers who were elected to office with over 50 percent of the vote were sent to the gallows by a coup administration. What's wrong in that? Everyone in this country must always remember the injustices committed during the military coup periods and never ever again cherish any idiotic hope that such interventions in politics might ever be the cure to anything. Like the hangings of Adnan Menderes, Fatin Rü?tü Zorlu and Hasan Polatkan, there are plenty of awful mistakes and incredible tragedies in the recent history of this nation and unfortunately most of them were not committed during the military rule periods. If anyone wants me to cite...