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Sat 30 Apr, 2005 08:03 pm
I thought I would bring this up, considering Turkey's bid to be a part of the secular EU. From many news articles I have been reading, fundamentalist Islam has been growing in Turkey as well as Pakistan. Will the EU allow an increasingly Islamist Turkey into the EU and enjoy their liberal immigration policy? Stay Tuned.
http://www.menewsline.com/stories/2005/april/04_18_3.html
Quote:TURKEY'S ERDOGAN SAID TO EMPLOY ISLAMISTS
ANKARA [MENL] -- Turkey has been employing thousands of Islamic fundamentalists in violation of its secular constitution.
An opposition parliamentary faction has accused Prime Minister Recep Erdogan of enabling the employment of thousands of Muslims who oppose Turkey as a secular state. The faction said the Islamic fundamentalists have entered all areas of government, including the Education Ministry.
"We can say that thousands of anti-secularists have been employed by the state in accordance with the government's wishes," Ali Topuz, deputy chief of the opposition Republican People's Party, said.
At a news conference on April 11, Topuz cited Omer Dincer, the undersecretary of the Prime Minister's office. Topuz said Dincer has called for the toppling of the secular Turkish republic.
Actually, this "empoy your own kin when you have the power" is quite common in Turkish governments. Being a Turk, living in Turkey I have witnessed this kind of mass replacements in the branches of the state in all governments that ruled Turkey. There are two ways to prevent this kind of power abuse. One of them is wait for the elections and hope that another party will emerge victorious and employ their own people, or let the army deal with them if this anti-regime movement gets too serious.
There is a third way to get rid of this menace completely, but it will require Turkey to revolutionise its whole administration system to be more transparent and remove this kind of power from the governments.
As Proteinn has already pointed out, this has far less to do with appointing so-called Islamists as it does with nepotism, rampant in many countries, not just Turkey.
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