Islamist Erdoğan Slams Opponents: Love it, or leave it

AKP Watch August 22nd, 2007

“If he is not yours [your president], then abandon your [Turkish] citizenship here, and go elsewhere where you can elect your president” said Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (RTE), and he added “I have the right to tell people who cannot accept him [Abdullah Gül] that you must first abandon your Turkish citizenship and go elsewhere where you can elect whoever you want”

PM Erdoğan spared these words -during a live interview at a national broadcast network- against a well known journalist, Bekir Coşkun, who wrote on his column two weeks ago that Abdullah Gül could not be his president and he would not see him as such. After less than one month of AKP’s broad victory in general elections, Mr. Erdoğan has expressed his understanding of democracy as clearly and sharply as possible while many have been declaring Mr. Erdogan and his party, AKP, as the champion of democracy.

PM Erdoğan once more makes it clear that anybody who disagrees with them should leave his democratic Turkey. His democracy well fits in the frame of majority-dictatorship, and his election victory seems to be hardly more democratic than Hitler’s overwhelming election victories back then, which led his country to be transformed into the worst regime in the world.

PM Erdoğan is well known with his actions against journalists who criticize him publicly, and he had taken many of them to courts although courts rejected the most of such legal claims. In less than one month of his election victory, the accumulated power the election has provided to him has encouraged PM Erdoğan to openly implement his anti-democratic and fascist agenda. After the long-lasting pressure of PM Erdoğan and his party on a widely circulated national newspaper Hurriyet, another well known journalist, Emin Çölaşan, was dismissed from his position, which he held for 22 years. Hurriyet newspaper had been under intense pressure of the ruling party for a few years for Mr. Çölaşan’s dismissal. After the broad election victory of ruling party, Hurriyet could not resist the pressure any longer.

Unfortunately, we expect to see more of these kinds of outrages actions and expressions in the coming term of this fascist Islamist party administration and his satellite president when he takes the office.