{"id":20027,"date":"2010-06-23T10:09:12","date_gmt":"2010-06-23T08:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=20027"},"modified":"2014-01-05T19:46:58","modified_gmt":"2014-01-05T17:46:58","slug":"20027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2010\/06\/23\/20027\/","title":{"rendered":"The Death of Turkey&#8217;s Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><\/h1>\n<h2>&#8220;I no longer recognize the country where I was  raised.&#8221;<\/h2>\n<div>\n<ul id=\"articleTabs\">\n<li id=\"articleTabs_tab_article\"><span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704009804575308182324490568.html?mod=wsj_share_facebook#articleTabs_article\">Article<\/span><\/li>\n<li id=\"articleTabs_tab_comments\"><span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704009804575308182324490568.html?mod=wsj_share_facebook#articleTabs_comments\">Comments (18)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>more in Opinion \u00bb<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h3>BY DANI RODRIK<\/h3>\n<p>I no longer recognize Turkey, the country where I was  raised and spend most of my time when I am not teaching in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t so long ago that the country seemed to be taking  significant strides in the direction of human rights and democracy.  During its first term in government, between 2002 and 2007, Prime  Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan&#8217;s Justice and Development Party (AKP)  worked hard to bring the country into the European Union, to reform its  legal regime, and to relax restrictions on Kurds.<\/p>\n<p>But more  recently, the same government has been responsible for a politics &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>====================== COMMENTS\u00a0 =======================<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li id=\"comment1289721\">\n<div id=\"commententry1289721\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div id=\"commentcontent1289721\">\n<p>i want to correct something:<br \/>\nbelow the picture in  the article written that AKP supporters holding the banner. it&#8217;s a  clear lie. the pictures on the banner belong to some people who were put  in jail because of the mentioned court cases, which are supported by  government. and the people who are against these series of cases claim  that erdogan is manipulated by the usa, and this dependence on usa  causes turkey loose.<br \/>\nsupporters of erdogan are about 30-40 percent.  and the total percentage of the islamists in turkey is at most 50%. but  the percentage of dislike against usa is about 80%. it&#8217;s obvious that  turkish people feel some problem with usa politics.<br \/>\nmaybe some  people should give up trying to relate dislike against usa to  non-democracy. even the lie i mentioned above in this article shows that  some powers in usa can give up ethics and can easily slander others for  some interests. maybe this can explain the 80%.<br \/>\nfinally, it&#8217;s weird  that in such a big newspaper, writers can lie publicly, if they want to.<\/p>\n<p><a onclick=\"dj.community.Comments.SetCommentFocus()\" href=\"javascript:\/\/\">2 Recommendations<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li> <a title=\"Show  comment link in the address bar\" onclick=\"dj.util.History.set('articleTabs', 'comments',  true);dj.util.History.set('commentId', '1289721', true); return true;\" href=\"javascript:\/\/\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<li> <a title=\"Get email when someone replies to this comment.\" onclick=\"showSignIn(); return false;\" href=\"javascript:\/\/\">Track Replies  to this Comment<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li id=\"commententry1290016\">\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li> <span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/community\/562981\">Catherine Dempsey<\/span> replied:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li id=\"comment1289991\">\n<div id=\"commententry1289991\">\n<ul>\n<li id=\"commententry1290287\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><a onclick=\"javascript:fnOpenMessageBox(2,'e6ba0a5b-3fc3-45e8-b236-85b3126de960','1290287');return  false;\" href=\"javascript:\/\/\">Connect<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div id=\"commentcontent1290287\">\n<p>most of the turkish people believe that they will  not accept turkey into the union. it was the same before the  developments too. and many people don&#8217;t want to be included because of  the attitude of the eu. although i don&#8217;t mind if they accept us or not,  like many others, i support advancements in areas like human rights, in  particular rights about ideological issues. it seems there is some  progress, but relatively slow. but certainly, it does not go backwards,  no matter what some people claim.<\/p>\n<p><a onclick=\"dj.community.Comments.SetCommentFocus()\" href=\"javascript:\/\/\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li id=\"comment1290910\">\n<div id=\"commententry1290910\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div id=\"dvConnectionSent1290910\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li> <a onclick=\"fnCloseConnectionSent('1290910');\" href=\"javascript:\/\/\">close window<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h5>Your message has been sent.<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li> <a onclick=\"fnCloseConnectionSent('1290910');\" href=\"javascript:\/\/\">Close window<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a onclick=\"javascript:fnOpenMessageBox(2,'42c9ac95-342a-4714-8ce9-5008e08b34f9','1290910');return  false;\" href=\"javascript:\/\/\">Connect<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div id=\"commentcontent1290910\">\n<p>Turkey refuses to grant independence to the Kurdish  people. Turkish war planes cross over the border to northern Iraq and  bomb Kurdish villages practically every day, killing an maiming  thousands of people whose only desire is to have their land, Kurdistan,  gain independence.<br \/>\nTurkey, cannot with a clear conscience, support the Palestinian  people and at the same time so brutally refuse to recognize the  legitimate rights of the Kurdish people.<br \/>\nWe cannot, we must not forget the genocide committed by Turkey  against the Armenian people. Turkey s testing us all now. 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