Çumhurbaşkanlığı tartışmalarının arkaplanı…

Bu blogu takip edenler uzun zamandır anlatmaya çalıştığım argümanları (1, 2) az çok biliyorlardır. Aşağıda vereceğim alıntıda da dünyaca ünlü the Economist dergisi bizim söylediğimiz düşüncelere benzer açıklama yapmayı uygun bulmuş:

The deeper malaise felt by these urban secular "white Turks" is really rooted in the millions-strong migration from rural Anatolia to the big cities in past decades. Assertively pious and aggressively entrepreneurial, this new class, championed by Mr Erdogan, has been steadily chipping away at the economic and political power of the secular elite. "The white Turks see women with headscarves walking dogs [and] jogging in their neighbourhoods and it drives them mad," says Baskin Oran, a liberal academic in Ankara. That shock may fade; in time it will become more difficult for the generals to turn secular hostility to Anatolian carpetbaggers into paranoia about creeping Islam, he reckons.