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    Will U.S. and EU punish Turkey If It does not commit itself to democracy?

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    Post by Rocky Fri 22 Jul 2016, 6:07 am

    Will U.S. and EU punish Turkey If It does not commit itself to democracy?
    Posted on July 22, 2016 by Editorial Staff in 1 Top NewsExclusive
    Will U.S. and EU punish Turkey If It does not commit itself to democracy? XRecep-Tayyip-Erdogan-and-Abdullah-Gul-attend-the-funeral-Istanbul-17-July-2016-afp.jpg.pagespeed.ic.dQc7ArbnFG
    Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and former Turkish president Abdullah Gul attend the funeral of a victim of the coup attempt in Istanbul. Photo: AFP

    [size=11]Abdul-Qahar Mustafa  | Special to Ekurd.net[/size]
    Most people including me know that Turkey has a bad history in dealing with minorities and never had any true image of democracy. It started from the time when their ancestors took the land by force from Kurds, Assyrians, Armenians, and Greeks in eleventh century. They have forced and murdered many people belong to these ethnicities in order to assimilate them and make them Muslim Turks.
    Turkey is an Islamic society. Although Turkey become a secular country after the dissolve of Ottoman empire, but the secularization of Turkey was done by force of military general Kamal Ata Turk, so unlike the secularization of the Europe, Turkey did not become a secular society naturally.

    For the last century, Turkey did have secular governments, but it was not democratic to European standards. The current AKP government of Turkey claim that they have changed turkey for better and established democracy and rule of law yet it continue to violate true democratic principles and Geneva Convention on human rights against minorities in an effort to undermine democracy and secure power to itself.
    Many people believe that even though that AKP party came to power by elections and it gained the majority of votes, it would still not make the government of AKP as a true democratic government unless it support and practice western standards of democratic values.
    In the past decades, Turkish military generals were holding political power, but their power was a poison to democracy. However, these Islamists of AKP party who currently in power are poisoning democracy too .They are increasingly Islamist and decreasingly democratic because they support Islamist terror groups in Syria, and also abuse human rights and freedoms of minorities.
    After the recent military coup failed, AKP government got a free and upper hand now. With high levels of public support AKP government has brought the military, the police and the judiciary under his control. They have replaced most of old security members within military, police, secret intelligent services, with AKP supporters to solidify their control over the entire country. In doing so Mr. Erdogan as the head of the Turkey state, essentially makes himself a dictator free to enact whatever Islamist or otherwise detrimental policy he wishes under the guise of protecting democracy from the tyranny of military. However, it seems that the new Turkish Army has also embraced the same mindset of AKP party with the political authority. This of course poses greater risk to democracy.
    Military coups might not be the best solution to solve any problem that the society and politics are encountering because all the previous military coups carried out to remove Islamic political parties from power in different Muslim countries like Iran,Turkey,Pakistan, Egypt, Algeria and Palestine, did not result in a true democracy to come to be in those countries as Islamic political parties continue to get massive votes and support from people. They still get elected to power as though in Muslim countries, religion and politics cannot be separated and secularization cannot overcome political religion no matter what the world do.
    Evidence continues to show that Turkey fails to meet democratic standards because it is a state that has periodic elections but where reliable protections for diversified opinions and beliefs are missing and the political process is strictly observed in favor of the Islamic party AKP and its supporters.
    On the other hand, US and EU countries do know that Turkey is not pursuing a true democratic path where it should uphold the rule of law, respect the rights of minorities and treat everyone equally regardless of religion, race and background, yet they do not want to punish Turkey, because NATO needs Turkey very much in current world situation to protect their interests in Middle East. For US and EU, Turkey is a buffer zone between Europe, Russia and Arab world. It is the main root of oil and gas pipeline to EU and geographically present in the most unstable region in the world.
    Furthermore, US, EU, and Israel, need Turkey to help Sunni majority Muslims to win over in Syria, so they can cut the influence of Iran, and safely build a new pipeline to free Europe from Russian energy supply shackles. Both Iran and Russia share a common interest in limiting U.S. influence in Middle East. However, Turkey has its own strategic interest just as US and EU countries do.
    Turkey wants to join EU and it expect EU country to take its membership if they consider Turkey as a trustworthy ally of the western countries.Turkey also wants US and EU to stop supporting Kurds because they perceive Kurds as a biggest internal threat for Turkey. Turkey does not want to always be dictated by NATO and lose business with Iran and Russian because both Iran and Russia are economically very important for Turkey.
    As a matter of fact, Iran is one of the providers of oil and Gas to Turkey for low prices. They both share concerns regarding the Kurdish independence movement and are interested in having secure and trouble free borders.
    It is really shameful for NATO to support a reckless, aggressive ally that support terrorist groups, violate human rights of minorities and bomb villages, damage property and kill innocent civilians in Kurdish areas and cities. It does not seem at all that NATO will expel Turkey from NATO one day, because the US is using Turkey against Russia and Iran equally.
    If US and EU expel Turkey from NATO, or put sanctions on Turkey, than they know that Turkey will rebel and go against their interest in many parts of the world .Turkey will get closer to Russia, and Iran .Turkey with Russia and Iran will change the geopolitical map of Middle-east and consequently world power diagram. And that is exactly why US and EU have not been taking serous steps to punish Turkey for not upholding the rule of law and true democratic principles or for committing human right abuse against minorities.
    As always, US and EU value and favor their economic and ideological interest over democracy and human rights. And they will continue playing double games with the world by claiming they are a advocate of democracy and human rights, yet forgo democracy and turn a blind eye to the human right abuse committed by their undemocratic allies such as Saudi Arabia, Gulf monarchies, Turkey, Egypt, and Algeria .In other words, as long as these undemocratic allies of US and EU continue cooperating with US and EU and do not go to bed with extremists,or Russia, Iran and North Korea, they will not be punished.
    In addition to the interest based policies of US and EU countries, the official mission of NATO has apparently changed as well, from promoting democracy, security and peace in the world, into controlling the international, and the global energy resources .It works to protect the global interest of US’ and EU countries around the world. It practically has been supporting American friendly regimes like Saudi Arabia and other gulf monarchies regardless if they are democratic or not as long as they accept free market economy and privatize their natural resources mainly in American and EU corporations, cooperate with US and EU in battling extremists, and to work against the interest of regimes who are at odd with US and EU countries. And that is the main reason that Saudi Arabia and other Gulf monarchies are not cutting oil production to stabilize and increase oil prices, just so to damage the economies of countries such as Russia, Iran and Venezuela which all of them are against the interest of US and EU countries.
    For all these reasons, I doubt it that US and EU countries will punish Turkey, put sanction on it or kick it out from NATO or press it hard enough to abide by democratic principles, uphold the rule of law, and treat everyone equally regardless of religion, race and background.

    Finally, I believe Turkey will get no concession and advantage if it continues to rebel or play games or blackmail US and EU through supporting terrorist groups or by trampling the rights of minorities or by going to bed with Iran and Russia secretly. Turkey should instead become honest and commit itself to true democracy. It should also solve its disputes with Greece and Cyprus, respect and recognize the democratic rights of minorities, and compensate Armenian for their genocide. This is the only way for Turkey to become a peaceful and prosperous state, that will have a better chance to be accepted as a member of EU.

    http://ekurd.net/doubt-punish-turkey-democracy-2016-07-22

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