Thursday, August 01, 2013

BURAK BEKDİL - The fall and fall of the Turkish Empire

The fall and fall of the Turkish Empire

Why, the careful observer should ask, did the crowds in Istanbul, which gathered to protest the coup d’etat in Cairo, repeatedly chant “Allah-u aqbar (God is greatest)?” What does God’s greatness have to do with a coup in an Arab country? Why did the same crowds not protest the 1989 coup in Sudan, or the 1980 coup in Turkey? Does God have a different perspective on Egyptian, Turkish and Sudanese coups?

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