..........It was too much for the Islamic traditionalists in the Turkish military, who overtook their officers in March of 1909 and marched through the streets demanding restoration of Islamic sharia law. As the Young Turks fled, one writer feared that "Turkey seemed poised to go down an Islamist path." But it was not to be. Within ten days, democratic reformists had recaptured Constantinople. The Islamic rebels made their last stand at Taksim military barracks on the city's European side before surrendering to reform-minded troops, including a young officer named Mustafa Kemal. For Kemal-later known as Atatürk, founder of modern, secular, democratic Turkey-the Taksim barracks would serve as a reminder of the dangers of Islamic fundamentalism.............
"…ὅτι δίκαια μὲν ἐν τῷ ἀνθρωπείῳ λόγῳ ἀπὸ τῆς ἴσης ἀνάγκης κρίνεται, δυνατὰ δὲ οἱ προύχοντες πράσσουσι καὶ οἱ ἀσθενεῖς ξυγχωροῦσιν..." ΘΟΥΚΥΔΙΔΗΣ
17 Ιουνίου 2013
The Megalomania of Erdoğan the Magnificent By Stanley A. Weiss
..........It was too much for the Islamic traditionalists in the Turkish military, who overtook their officers in March of 1909 and marched through the streets demanding restoration of Islamic sharia law. As the Young Turks fled, one writer feared that "Turkey seemed poised to go down an Islamist path." But it was not to be. Within ten days, democratic reformists had recaptured Constantinople. The Islamic rebels made their last stand at Taksim military barracks on the city's European side before surrendering to reform-minded troops, including a young officer named Mustafa Kemal. For Kemal-later known as Atatürk, founder of modern, secular, democratic Turkey-the Taksim barracks would serve as a reminder of the dangers of Islamic fundamentalism.............
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