Re:RIP Turkey, 1921 – 2017
by bdavisx on Monday April 17, 2017 @02:19PM
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I'm not going to debate the dictatorship part of your comment, but is there a islamist government (elected or not) that has been good for human rights - or any religion based government for that matter?
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Not really. But military safeguards pretty much worked in secular Turkey. In establishing those lies Mustafa Kemal's genius.
Keep in mind that this referenfum was organized under a state of emergency imposed after last year's failed coup. So its democratic nature is rather questionable. The No campaigners were misrepresented and harassed.
And the media were mostly controlled by Erdogan & company.
Re:RIP Turkey, 1921 – 2017
by misingnoglic on Monday April 17, 2017 @04:12PM
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Is there any government good for human rights? I'm thinking about Iran, which is obviously a horrible place now for human rights, but it wasn't exactly a wonderland before the Islamic revolution either.
> but it wasn't exactly a wonderland before the Islamic revolution either.
No, the Shah was pretty brutal. Besides SAVAK there were many other really bad episodes, one of which I read about some years ago but have never forgotten about as the epitome of decadency:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2,500_year_celebration_of_the_...