May 27, 2011

Unethical to accuse Fethullah Gülen over MHP crisis, says CHP deputy

Today's Zaman

It is wrong to accuse Muslim scholar Fethullah Gülen or anybody else over a recent scandal in the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), in which 10 senior party members were force to resign when anonymous individuals posted online sex-videos of three MHP members and threatened to post more if certain other party members didn't resign, CHP deputy Mustafa Özyürek has said.

Being forced to submit to the military

Rasim Ozan Kütahyalı *

Let me start by highlighting a fundamental fact: The Turkish military guardianship regime cannot possibly change without the full support and leadership of religious people.

In fact, liberals, left-wingers, Kurds and non-Muslims in this country have been aware of this fact for a while. This is not new information for them, but due to the influence of old habits, they provide sterile and polished statements in their political analyses.