It's unbelievable.... the whole region is falling like a house of cards...
Yes. This is a remarkable time in history, for so many reasons! And we are here.....
I want to figure out what it MEANS, this serious Islam collapse of nations.
Here's my personal analysis for now: ALL, 100%, of the initial protests are always leftist. That's true in Istanbul this past week, too. They were protesting against Ergodan's creeping authoritarianism and his desire to change the constitution for a dictatorial third term, and of course the park --- a relative who is second-generation Turkish-American says it's the LAST park in Istanbul, going down of course to developers.
Then what has happened every single time is that after the chaos, the rightist fundamentalist Islamists take over. That will happen in Turkey, too, because the population is basically rightwing in the countryside, as everywhere, and Ergodan was ahead already, had ruled for ten years.
I think this will happen in America, too: leftists start it, rightists finish it and win it.
The leftist Muslims want to join the 20th century so they protest ------ bad move, because they are direly outnumbered by rightwing traditionalists.
No.
Party leader of the right-wing Nationalists (13% of votes) announced, that they won't join any protests. In general they act in line with the Government.
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Turkey has a lot of violence potential from marxist-style cold-war area communists operating in the underground (many outlawed). It's not about the right-wing taking over the protests from leftists, but the peaceful "leftists" going home and the anarchists taking over, which has already happened according to my opinion when I look at the vandalism.