Thousands of Istanbul citizens walking to protest government

Re:Thousands of Istanbul citizens walking to protest government by pinars on Saturday June 01, 2013 @02:58AM (#5803083)

In most of the world, revolutions come bottom up. In Turkey, they came top down. It was the military that toppled the "sultan" and established the parliamentary system / Turkish Republic. And later it was a former general who set up the multi-party system (and didn't get elected).

I know it sounds off, but what the Founding Fathers did for the US, the generals did for Turkey. Not a very healthy one I agree, but at least they established whatever form of democracy Turkey has today.

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Re:Thousands of Istanbul citizens walking to protest government by _b8r0 on Saturday June 01, 2013 @06:12AM (#5803433)

> It was the military that toppled the "sultan" and established the parliamentary system / Turkish Republic

The Young Turk Revolution, while supported by one army corp didn't topple the Sultan. The Sultan (Mehmed VI) was deposed by the Grand National Assembly of the Turkish Republic, a political body.

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Re:Thousands of Istanbul citizens walking to protest government by shn on Monday June 03, 2013 @10:27AM (#5813445)

Turkey was ruled by one party until 1946 like the ones in Soviet Union. After 4-5 years of the multi party election of the first prime minister that "honest" and "non-corrupt government" hung the prime minister after the coup. The last soft coup in 1998 costed Turkey by one estimation $300Bn. Wanna talk corruption, talk the military and all the state investments...

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