{"id":27337,"date":"2010-11-30T08:50:14","date_gmt":"2010-11-30T06:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=27337"},"modified":"2023-04-05T10:52:30","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T07:52:30","slug":"erdogan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2010\/11\/30\/erdogan\/","title":{"rendered":"Erdo\u011fan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ERDO\u011eAN<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The prime minister of Turkey has made a policy, indeed a habit, indeed\u00a0a rather nasty, sneaky habit, of listening to the private conversations of Turkish citizens. Accordingly, he has destroyed many reputations and killed many careers, all\u00a0on the basis of circumstantial\u00a0and ill-gotten evidence. He has done this under the guise of protecting the nation from terrorism. To that end, hundreds of those opposed to his regime have been jailed. Many have become seriously ill from their confinement, some have died. And many more live in fear wondering about just who is the\u00a0terrorist.<\/p>\n<p>Now it is\u00a0the prime minister&#8217;s\u00a0turn. <strong><em>Wikileaks<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0has lent\u00a0more smoke to the fire of what has been well and widely known about the Turkish prime minister. Few aside from his most ardent supporters would quibble with the documentary descriptions of him as willful, arrogant, and harsh. And the dimensions of his newly gained wealth, and that of his\u00a0loyal followers, and their children is of no surprise to anyone marginally alert and living in today&#8217;s Turkey.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>One trademark of loud-mouthed bullies is that when they are confronted,\u00a0physically or otherwise, they shut up. Tonight, in the face of a tidal wave of information indicating how corrupt and morally bankrupt he and\u00a0his minions may be, the prime minister\u00a0shut up.\u00a0But\u00a0his eager nation awaits\u00a0and deserves a well-considered response.\u00a0Perhaps when he returns from Libya after receiving the <em><strong>Distinguished Statesman <strong>Award <\/strong><\/strong><\/em>from that distinguished statesman and humanitarian\u00a0Moammar\u00a0Gadhafi, a fellow leakee? Perhaps then\u00a0the\u00a0Turkish prime minister\u00a0will bless the Turkish nation\u00a0with his usual eloquence?\u00a0Like that master of revenge, the Count of Monte Cristo,\u00a0who summed up all human knowledge in three words,\u00a0we &#8220;wait and hope.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Cem Ryan<br \/>\nIstanbul<br \/>\n29 November 2010<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/cemryan.wordpress.com\/\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/cemryan.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/11\/0823erdogan.jpg\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ERDO\u011eAN The prime minister of Turkey has made a policy, indeed a habit, indeed\u00a0a rather nasty, sneaky habit, of listening to the private conversations of Turkish citizens. Accordingly, he has destroyed many reputations and killed many careers, all\u00a0on the basis of circumstantial\u00a0and ill-gotten evidence. He has done this under the guise of protecting the nation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":782285,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2221],"tags":[1571,200,78,4174,120],"class_list":["post-27337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cem-ryan","tag-ahmet-davutoglu","tag-democracy","tag-ergenekon","tag-features","tag-gulen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/782285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}