Friday, August 23, 2013

Who Poisoned Former Turkish President Ozal? - Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle East

Who Poisoned Former

By: Rasim Ozan Kutahyali for Al-Monitor Turkey Pulse Posted on August 22.

In my previous article, I wrote about the most significant political dispute in New Turkey, the spat between Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government and the Gulen movement. Quarters close to the government argue that the Gulenists are seeking to establish themselves in the military, civilian bureaucracy and the judiciary to install a “new Gulenist tutelage regime” in place of the “old Kemalist tutelage regime.” The Gulenists deny the allegations. Turkey’s democratically elected governments have always complained of tutelage. The debate in the Erdogan versus Gulen context is only a recent development, but the problem of tutelage has a long history in Turkish politics.

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