Turkey May Suffer A Serious Crisis In Its Domestic Affairs

TURKEY MAY SUFFER A SERIOUS CRISIS IN ITS DOMESTIC AFFAIRS

PanARMENIAN.Net
10.06.20

Turkey may suffer a serious crisis in its domestic affairs, and this
may very probably happen already in the fall. The formal cause is
Turkey’s decision about the recognition of the anti-constitutional
law on hijab. The abolition of the legislative act was initiated and
insisted on by the opposition, in particular, by the DNP, accusing
Erdoghan of his intentions of changing the secular life into a
theocratic State.

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The higher educational institutions and the army,
which is the stronghold of the Kemals in the country, share the same
fear with the DNP. The so called Kemalists are the 8 members (out of
11 members) of the Constitutional Court, which cause serious problems
for the leading Justice and Development Party and for the President and
the Prime-Minister of the country. Soon the Constitutional Court will
start the consideration of the suit of the General Public Prosecutor
on the ban over AKR, which will indeed lead the country to a serious
political crisis. According to Erdoghan, the decision made by the
Constitutional Court is "lame". "The Court must find out the reasons
of making such a decision, as well as the motives which led to the
revision of amendments of the Constitution of the country," said
Erdoghan in the parliament. The most interesting thing in Erdoghan’s
speech is that the very Constitution does not allow the Islamists
to be in power. On the other hand it must be mentioned that the
overwhelming majority of the population of the country practices
Islam and it is the majority that voted for the going back to the
values of the Ottoman Empire.

The army and the authorities of the Turkish institutes of higher
education have rather grounded fears regarding the expansion of Islam
and the "destiny of Iran" fated for Turkey in the result of this
expansion. More than 70 years, Turkey has tried to integrate into the
secular form of the government, but the dominance of the Islamists has
never been as strong and threatening as it is now. Let’s not forget
that the current president of the country Abdullah Gul was elected with
the third attempt and without the Constitutional majority of the AKR
in the parliament, nobody knows when what lead the history would take.

Basically, AKR may begin a special parliamentary election and most
probably will be able to win the election. Then one may say with more
certainty that Erdoghan has totally changed Turkey to Islam and has
started the construction of the new Ottoman Empire.

Most likely this is the only aim of the Islamists.

Yet, there is one very important aspect, which must not be
ignored. The Turkish army, according to Ataturk, is the guarantor of
the Constitution and it will carry on up to the end. Regardless all
the reforms and strivings to integrate into the EU, Ankara’s domestic
policy is still defined by the Turkish Joint Staff. The Joint Staff is
the one to decide what to do and what relations to have with Armenia
and other countries of the South Caucasus.

After all, the Joint Staff is going to decide whether Turkey is
integrated into the European Union or not.

With the Islamists, the viewpoints of the military staggered, and
now with the help of the Constitutional Court they want to turn the
situation to their favor.

It has worked out so far… After all, there is the tested mechanism
of the military overturn and Erdoghan knows the scenario of the
development of the events better than anyone else; he has already
been in prison for his viewpoints.

As for Armenia, it makes no different Armenia, since no government
of Turkey, be it secular or Islamic, will ever have enough courage
to recognize the history and start a dialogue. Nobody knows when
the Turkish society will be ready for it. It should be repeated
that the thing is not in the "brotherly" Azerbaijan or in the
Nagorno-Karabakh. The thing is in the recognition of the borders and
the Armenian Genocide.

But neither of these issues is acceptable by Ankara.

All that Armenian has to do now is to wait and see what
happens. Meanwhile one should not forget the argument that Armenia
limits the complete influence of Turkey on the countries of South
Caucasus.