{"id":18976,"date":"2016-03-18T10:46:04","date_gmt":"2016-03-18T15:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=18976"},"modified":"2016-03-18T10:46:17","modified_gmt":"2016-03-18T15:46:17","slug":"erdogan-democracy-freedom-have-absolutely-no-value-any-longer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=18976","title":{"rendered":"Erdogan: Democracy, Freedom Have \u2018Absolutely No Value Any Longer\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"box\">\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2016\/03\/16\/erdogan-democracy-freedom-have-absolutely-no-value-any-longer\/\">Erdogan: Democracy, Freedom Have \u2018Absolutely No Value Any Longer\u2019<\/a><\/h3>\n<h4 id=\"pagesub\">Vows to Turn Military on Political Opposition<\/h4>\n<div class=\"details\">Concerns about Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan\u2019s authoritarian leanings have been at the fore in the nation\u2019s political dialogue since he assumed the presidency, and appear to have been well founded, as in a televised speech today he declared \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/erdogan-claims-fighting-terrorism-outweighs-democracy-in-turkey\/a-19120587\">democracy,, freedom, and the rule of law have absolutely no value any longer<\/a>.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/erdler.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"192\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" \/>Rather, Turkey is about one thing in 2016, and that\u2019s wars, with Erdogan insisting anyone who supports his wars is a friend and anyone \u201con the opposite side are our enemy,\u201d insisting the nation will treat them all with an iron fist.<\/p>\n<p>Erdogan also vowed to turn the nation\u2019s military against the opposition HDP, which opposes the war against the Kurds, saying that \u201cwherever you run, our soldiers, police, and village guards will find you there and do what is necessary.\u201d Erdogan had previously pushed for the HDP\u2019s parliamentarians to lose their legal immunity so they could be charged as terrorists.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI no longer see as legitimate political actors the members of a party which is operating as a branch of the terrorist organization,\u201d Erdogan reiterated today, demanding parliament take quick action against opposition MPs from the Kurdish-dominated southeast.<\/p>\n<p>Erdogan has increasingly sought to charge political opponents as terrorists, and has in the past few weeks not only arrested academics as \u201cterrorists\u201d for their positions on his government, but nationalized the nation\u2019s largest newspaper for publishing articles critical of his ruling party.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Erdogan: Democracy, Freedom Have \u2018Absolutely No Value Any Longer\u2019 Vows to Turn Military on Political Opposition Concerns about Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan\u2019s authoritarian leanings have been at the fore in the nation\u2019s political dialogue since he assumed the presidency, and appear to have been well founded, as in a televised speech today he declared 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