Turkey’s Secular Fascism
Turkey is a Muslim-majority country and used to be seat of Ottomon Empire, whose Sultans were respected as “Khalifahs” among Muslims around the world till the Khilafat was abolished by in 1924 by Gen. Kemal Pasha and his Crypto-Jew dominated Young Turk Movement.
The six principles of Kemalist doctrine – Republicanism, Statism, Secularism, Nationalism, Etatism, and Populism – were incorporated in the 1924 Constitution. Fearing public uprising, the Kemalists did not implement all those at once – but enforced them between 1926-36 gradually. The major amendment in 1924 Constitution was to ban religious propaganda for political purposes (1926); banning of Arabic and Persian in schools and removal of Islam as the State religion (1928); the ban of Adhan (Muslim call for prayer) in Arabic (1933); a change in Turkish alphabets from Arabic to Latin script (1928); ban on religious titles (1934), and replacement of Friday as weekly holiday. The ban on Adhan in Arabic was lifted by Adnan Menderes’ government in 1950.
The present Constitution of 1982 supports the principle of secularim (which is totally against Islamic Shari’ah). Under this Constitution – a 15-member Constitutional Council with powers to ban a political part which pose challenge to Kemalism. Since 1961 – no political part gained majority to change this Constitution (neds two-thid majority to do that) – secularism remains the hall-mark of secularist and military establishment in Turkey. Islamist party Refah founded by professor Erbakan (1983 and banned in 1997) – and its successor Fazilat were both banned.
Banning of MP Safa Merve Kavakci to represent her Istanbul constituents at the 550-member Grand Turkish National Assembly for wearing Hijab in 1999 – showed the ugly face of so-called Kemalist secularism.
The Turkish military, which has appointed itself as the guardian of Kemalism – has overthrown four elected governments in the past 50 years.
The Kemalists have made Turkey the largest foreign debt holder among the 57 Muslim nation-states – a stagering overall US$262.9 billion by 2008.
The current ruling party, Justice and Development Party (AKP), which won great majority of parliamentarian seats for the second time – is being hailed as a victory for democracy. However, since some of party’s senior members belonged to the banned Islamist paries in the past – they’re blamed by Islamophobic and secularists as Islamists in hidding – just like the Crypto-Jews in Turkish society, who pretends to be Muslims, but anti-Islam in their hearts. AKP has assured both the Kemalist military establishment and its western backers that the party intends to lead Turkey under secularism and refuses to accept Kurdish demand for atonomy within a Turkish federation or an independent Turkish state in occupied Iraq. It has also kept Kemalists’ friendly relations with Jewish Lobby groups in the US. It was Abraham Foxman, national director of pro-Israel anti-Defamation League (ADL), which played a major part in killing the bill calling US to declare killing of tens of thousands of Armenians not to be declared as “Holocaust” – because that word is only reserved for Jewish sufferings.
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