Nobody asked me but I really feel the need to write why I want these events to continue and Erdoğan to be down. I'll try to stay away from unnecessary details as much as possible.
Our secularity is in serious danger. Erdoğan is a conservative Islamist who can't tolerate people of other faiths and thoughts. He recently put out a law that put restriction to alcohol because it's forbidden in Islam, accused those who defend the right of alcohol consumption "drunks", also called Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and İsmet İnönü drunkards. A famous Turkish pianist, Fazıl Say went ahead and said he was an atheist and constantly tried to defend the rights of people who weren't religious. Result? He's jailed.
Erdoğan and his party has crushed the seperation of powers already. The president is the ex-foreign affairs minister of the party, the head of constitutional court is a partizan and other courts of justice are in constant pressure. Erdoğan also wants to bring in a system closer to American presedential system to become even more powerful. Democracy is only on paper. So is freedom of media. He constantly censors the media and the internet, details would take too much time but these ongoing events aren't even shown in TV channels.
Overriding ongoing problem of unemployedment, the widening gap between the rich and poor, he constantly asks people to have at least three kids. He says he wants a young country but we all know knowledgeable people wouldn't have many kids if there is a possibility that they can't take care of them well or unemployment problems, but ignorant people would continue to have many kids and these are the people that vote for his party in general. Why not gain more supporters, right?
He never is aware of what he says. There are so many examples of him breaking his own promises. For a recent example, for years he said he wouldn't sit around the table with PKK, he did it this year, making many concessions to them as well. A blatant and funny example is that he rejected the arguments that said Greater Middle East plan was an American plan and that if the people who made the arguments didn't prove it they were vile rascals, then two years later came out and said that Americans considered a Greater Middle East plan and they participated in it.
The starting point of the ongoing events was the plan to take down the trees in the historic park and build a shopping centre. Following the first protests, he said "Whatever you do, we've made our decision and we'll implement it." hence the first big problems on 31st of May. Environment is in serious danger with all those projects that are going on. You know the police stuff already, it hasn't just started, it's been going on for a while. Ten university student got together and unfurled some banners and they were attacked with pepper sprays. Police killed many people this year in many events as well. Pepper spray smell is our national smell these days. People who participate in protests are blacklisted, there's been cases where university students were banned from their universities because of their participations.
In the government budget, Directorate of Religious Affairs gain four times as much share than Ministry of National Education. Education systems and exam systems are incredibly inconsistent. The format of high school entrance exam changed five times in six years. He's trying his best to give advantages to İmam Hatip High Schools (imam : muslim religious priest) and take advantages from Science High Schools and Anatolian High Schools which are high in student quality. Why would he make better educational reforms when he gets his votes from the uneducated people anyway? The
chart showing rate of reading habit is really close to the
results of the last election. Erdoğan's party AKP was dominate in places with low reading habit, the main opposition, centre-left party CHP gained its wins in places with high reading habit. Inner parts of Ankara are high in reading habit and CHP dominated but outside parts are low, have more people and AKP dominated. Reversed version applies with İstanbul as well.
I could probably go and on, transportation, health care, more detailed economic state, LGBT rights (Erdoğan is homophobic as well, so this is really way way off), his constant threats to people, his and companion's constant attempts to attack people's private lives, the imprisonment of oppositional leftist and secularist writers with made-up plans backed up by amateurly planned fake documentations (they've been in prison for four years and they still don't know what their actual alleged crimes are), his handling of terror, the fact that his son didn't do his military service and he's a malingerer, the fact that he constantly buys uber expensive planes, wants a passenger airline all for himself, all the corruption, bribes etc.
This is why I'm psyched about these current events. This thread probably isn't the place to put this in, but what the hell.
