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General Discussion Area / Re: democracy....
« on: 21 June 2013, 07:10:26 »
I have just found this forum and followed the debate with interest.
I at the moment am just coming to the end of a 3 month stay in Fethiye where I have a holiday home and whilst there have not been any violence or incidents that get reported there is still a quiet protest. Each evening at sunset a group, probably 100 people gather under the statue of Ataturk, drape themselves with the Turkish flag and just stand quietly.
If you listen to the conversations you find a majority of the people do have problems with Erdogan and it goes a lot further than Istanbul or Ankara.
The protests go a lot further than trees in a park. that was only the catalyst. Erdogan has over the years been slowly changing the constitution from a secular to an islamic culture. He is setting the agenda by altering the funding for schools. 70% of educational funding goes to religious shools leaving the secular schools to fend for themselves. This in itself changes the nature of the future population as they will come out of school with an agenda rather than a liberal viewpoint. This, along with small but subtle changes that have not gone unoticed are now being challenged by a young educated movement.
Trees in a park have started a challenge to the future direction of Turkey and at present nobody knows the outcome.
It is such a shame because i have lived here for 10yrs and a nicer more hospitable people I have never met. I go back to UK next week and the contrast will be obvious as soon as I get off the plane.
I at the moment am just coming to the end of a 3 month stay in Fethiye where I have a holiday home and whilst there have not been any violence or incidents that get reported there is still a quiet protest. Each evening at sunset a group, probably 100 people gather under the statue of Ataturk, drape themselves with the Turkish flag and just stand quietly.
If you listen to the conversations you find a majority of the people do have problems with Erdogan and it goes a lot further than Istanbul or Ankara.
The protests go a lot further than trees in a park. that was only the catalyst. Erdogan has over the years been slowly changing the constitution from a secular to an islamic culture. He is setting the agenda by altering the funding for schools. 70% of educational funding goes to religious shools leaving the secular schools to fend for themselves. This in itself changes the nature of the future population as they will come out of school with an agenda rather than a liberal viewpoint. This, along with small but subtle changes that have not gone unoticed are now being challenged by a young educated movement.
Trees in a park have started a challenge to the future direction of Turkey and at present nobody knows the outcome.
It is such a shame because i have lived here for 10yrs and a nicer more hospitable people I have never met. I go back to UK next week and the contrast will be obvious as soon as I get off the plane.