The Turkish judicial assassination and its aftermath

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Anyone else keeping track of this? Without putting too fine a point on it, it's the equivalent of someone getting into the US Supreme Court and shooting up the judges, killing one. In this case the stakes are even more fraught in that the court has been seen as a bulwark of secularism in the country and the assassin appears to have been religiously motivated.

The aftermath is potentially the greater news story -- rallies for pro-secular parties and beliefs, verbal attacks on members of the current ruling party and initial rumblings of snap elections. To top it all off, the secularist former PM, Ecevit, has suffered a stroke after attending the funeral.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 19 May 2006 14:18 (nineteen years ago)

Jeez. Has there been much "Well they DESERVED it" comments from their heavily authoritarian rightwingers like what happens over here whenever some fuckhead goes after a judge?

― kingfish doesn't live here anymore (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 19 May 2006 15:20 (nineteen years ago)

Apparently not much. So far this is the most extensive English language analysis of what's going on, and while it's an NRO piece, the dude actually lives and works in Ankara and pretty free from obvious cant on initial blush.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 13:25 (nineteen years ago)

eight years pass...

A British guy has been arrested in Turkey for links to the DHKP/C.

I struggle to keep track of all the conspiracy theories but the line being pushed at the moment seems to be that the DHKP/C is a front for the PKK which is a front for the Ergenekon. Everyone is a front for the Ergenekon, though.

The government press is certainly positioning the recent suicide bombing, machine gun attack and unsuccessfully-resolved hostage drama as part of a wave of violence that unites liberals, radicals and other 'white Turks' against AK.

― Ethnically Ambiguous / 28 - 45 (ShariVari), Tuesday, 7 April 2015 18:22 (ten years ago)

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