Turkey’s Ergenekon Case and the False Promise of Democracy
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by Christiana Liountri
On the 21st of September, a Turkish court announced its judgment on the Sledgehammer case which is directly related to the Ergenekon organization. This evolution, regardless the democratic cloak it bore, provokes questions with regard to the real motives and political pursuits of Erdogan. A first conclusion that can be reached is the coordinated effort on behalf of Erdogan to deconstruct the political threat coming from the Turkish army, so that he can easily establish his own “Islamic deep state”, rather than promoting democracy within the Turkish state.
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