Oğul Tuna
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first heard Jul 2026
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And then, of course, in the 90s, most of those bans and prohibitions were much more, let's say, lightened, but still, what we are witnessing today is a result of 1980 regime.
And Erdoğan is also.
his predecessors, his allies, his supporters, the mentality, the coalition between the newly formed army, the newly formed capitalist circle, and of course the religious, nationalist mentality, the elites, intellectuals, they
changed Turkey and after 1980 we have actually the same regime, the same regime is going on.
Erdoğan, what Erdoğan changed is the facet of this regime.
He of course transformed
this regime into a one-man rule, a quasi one-man rule.
But unfortunately, we are seeing the unprotected nature of civil rights, rule of law and other liberties in Turkey is a sad memory and inheritance of this period.
Yes, religion, Islam, Christianity, or whatever it is, is a tool of social discipline.
I'm not going into the cliche that is attributed to Marx, of course, but it is used as a tool of social discipline after 1980 in Turkey.
So in the absence of labor unions, in the absence of...
against the threat of an emerging left, what you could put in a...
in motion is religion.
And this was not of course something that is planified and implemented just by Ankara, just by Turkish generals or Turkish politicians or Turkish capitalists.
It was done together with NATO, together in cooperation with other states.
We should not forget that Erdoğan was elected in 2002 and just before his election and after his election he visited Washington DC.
had several meetings with American politicians.
He then, after the election, when he first became prime minister, he earned many awards from
Western capitals, because then many liberals thought that what Erdoğan was doing was against the rule of military, he was boosting civil liberties, liberties that was prohibited from religious, pious,
Civilians at that time Because according to this mentality The Kemalist regime was Oppressing Islam Oppressing religion in Turkey
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