It is not that we never learn, it's just that some people never learn. So they are going to try again...
It’s amazing that US legacy media are still treating the Turkish protests as minor news. The Erdoğan Era, which began in 2003, has seen nothing like it, and the showdown is about to get ugly. A regime change in Turkey could shake the Middle East and improve Turkey-EC relations. https://t.co/GwGPfzoQwx
— Timur Kuran (@timurkuran) March 22, 2025
One thing we have certainly learned by now about every single damned revolutionary overthrow of Islamic governments is that they ALWAYS MAKE IT WORSE. Yes the islamic fanatics will win and everyone else in Turkey and around it will lose. You can take it to the bank. It happens every single time starting with Iran and ending just a month ago with Syria. Islamics are like the French when it comes to satisfactory revolutionary outcomes.
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I believe Turkey would be different from most of the other countries in the region. Recent history has Turkey as a fairly moderate country that took a decided tilt towards islam when Erdogan took over. And a lot of the people there would like to tilt the country back away from islamic tendencies. It's these people who are fomenting the unrest and the islamics in Erdogan's government resisting.
Turkey historically counted on the Army to balance the government and its real role was to keep Turkey secular. Unfortunately, by the time the Army acted to topple Erdogan in a military coup, Erdogan had already purged the Army of its adult leadership and the coup was carried out by incompetent dolts. It failed and Erdogan gutted the officer corps and replaced it with hardcore islamic fanatics. Now the Army will crush the revolution and the hardline fanatics will move front and center because they will perceive a "need to quell the unrest in society by embracing islam a little more closely in all respects." Expect the Islamic Republic of Turkey or Ottoman II.
Correct, also folks that actually read about what Erdogan has said and done (like installing hardcore Islamic in charge) would know he's thinking of a Leadership Role in the Islamic Empire.
The thing we learned about every revolution . . . Is that it was paid for by USAID!
There, FIFY
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