Ihsan Yilmaz

Articles de cet auteur (3)

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  Transparency and the operational code of the Gülen movement

  20 October 2010

  During the course of the past few weeks, there has been a debate surrounding the Gülen movement and calls for the movement to be transparent.
  I think these calls were misguided because they do not take into account the operational code of the movement and also seem to have a naive understanding of modern Turkish political history.
  Starting from the 19th century, Islamic movements generally had an anti-imperialist character. Moreover, they had a state-centric approach. Coupled with and (...)

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  The only game in town

  28 May 2008

  It is becoming clear that a military coup is almost impossible in Turkey. If one reason is the lack of international approval of such a dreadful betrayal of democracy, the other reason is Turkish society’s current level of democratic maturity, which includes a high level of urbanization, modernization and economic development and which benefits from the information age.
  All military coups in the country have always sought popular approval and some sort of legitimacy. In today’s Turkey it is (...)

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  Turkey : the best defense is...

  14 May 2008

  An overwhelming majority both at home and abroad agree that the closure case against the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) is a judicial coup attempt by the oligarchy and its beneficiaries. For weeks we have been discussing possible maneuvers to escape from this almost inescapable cul-de-sac. The best defense is attack. By this, I do not mean attacking individuals, personalities or institutions but a democratization attack.
  If we can diagnose the illness correctly, the cure should (...)