Comment Re:im wondering which is the idiot that modded me (Score 1) 531
Second: When the military has this much power,do you seriously think they will be merciful with their power? Or will they become corrupt and "unquestionable"?
How has it worked in Turkey for 100 years, with the military actually properly enforcing a secular state and not being corrupt?
But you forget the saying: Power corrupts,absolute power corrupts absolutely. The last big coup in 1980,was exactly that. In fact,that's why islamists are now the ruling party. The army is both secularist and nationalist.So when there is a chance that turkey will go the communist route,the army intervenes. In the 1980 coup,they built up the religious activities and crushed the leftists and even the party which founded the republic! Just to be sure that turkey wouldn't be in the soviet block. When that happened,the religious part of the society began to accumulate serious power. That's why there shouldn't be a coup. Democracy should be protected by democrats. hope that centrists and leftists will win the next election. Turkish people should all realise that power through force is not the way to go if you are a democracy. The army should just be a safekeeper if there is an armed uprising against democracy.
