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Thursday, August 04, 2016

Secular Turks between a rock and a hard place - BARÇIN YİNANÇ

Secular Turks between a rock and a hard place

What we are living through these days harbors several chains of ironies.

Certain European circles have counted on Justice and Development Party (AKP) rule to weaken the Turkish army, which they saw as the main headache in Turkish-European relations. So Europe largely remained silent to the “purge” against the army in 2010 undertaken via legal cases that saw hundreds of army officers end up in jail.

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