And if you are serious, definitely we are not living in the same country. I envy you.
BTW, Islamist does not mean Muslim. It's a political ideology. And it's not a democratic one. Erdogan is definitely an Islamist politician.
Edit: And Kurdish politicians and their leader are not terrorists at all. They have never been considered as terrorists since today. Only reason they are on target now is because Erdogan is obsessed with changing the regime and becoming the president while Kurdish party hinders that. The truth in Turkey is as simple as this.
There is a whole list of things that are wrong with the democratic process in Turkey, one of them is the silencing of political parties & media.
The people that got arrested last night were allegedly (not actively) tied to a terrorist organization. The legal process is just starting, and these people didn't have their day in court. We didn't even hear what evidence the prosecutor is bringing forward.
You can try these MPs without arresting them. I'm not a lawyer and can't speak to the condition under which these people were arrested.
That said, the Turkish judiciary arrested hundreds of people as part of Ergenekon and Balyoz trials, kept them in jail for years and years, and then pardoned them. And we all just watched.
...because everything Erdogan does is appropriate?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/01/turkish-presid...
You think like this but of those %90+ people, half of them don't vote for Erdogan and most of them still call him "islamist".
So, no, it is not OK to think that Islam is the same for you and me and people in IS (Deaş). That is what a secular government solves. You don't discuss things with religion interpretations, you discuss over actual facts.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secularism_in_Turkey#Weakening...
I openly criticise any leader who allows ancient myths to influence their actions, no matter which millennia-old stories they choose.
Secular democracies are freer, richer, more stable and more powerful than theocracies (technical exception made for the United Kingdom).
Outsiders aren't saying "you are wrong". They are saying "have you considered your current path will likely leave you less free, more poor and at a higher risk of living in a failed state in one to three generations?"
I am not supporting it drifting away from secularism. My issue is that whenever someone gets a chance to splash some mud on the country's leader, people are never wasting time and it is always raised with a comment about Erdogans being muslim. Those people getting arrested had nothing to do with religion.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-facebook-idUSKBN12...
I am a Turkish citizen and i live there so without the actual experience, most of the things said here is not true and heavily biased.
The people that got arrested last night were actively tied to terrorist organization called PKK and execute under their command. How would you feel there was a senator in your country representing such terrorist organization and continue to do so because he was untouchable because he was elected? How would you feel you left you house or dorm scared that you would be blown into pieces on your way to school or some errand etc?
Those people are widely connected and their supporters are trying to organize violent acts via social media.
Another thing is Turkey is %90+ muslim so It is very odd that people call Erdogan islamist. So what? It is a muslim country. People actually voted for him(including myself and most of the people i know). It is peoples beliefs. You dont say things about Obama or Bush 'Oh he is a Christian Leader' every time you have a conversation that has a negative context.