Tuesday, 5 December 2017

Notes on the Course of Politics in Turkey in 2017: Erdoğan and Ultra-nationalists

Ultra-Nationalists are told to be sharing the coalition with the government, although they got %1 of the electoral votes: yet it is true that there is a de facto coalition or a solidarity within the political discourse: populism is highly wide-spread in Turkey for which in the end it can’t be discarded for being indifferent to the governance for not holding the administration in a country where the Rule of Law is not established and the Word/Speech of the Ruler/Leader is much more deliberating.

Ultra-nationalists, although it is in the English political science terminology how they are called, is actually more close, semantically to National Sozialistische Arbeiter Bewegung (Ulus-al-cı-lık) claiming an ancient Turkish identity as apriorischen Anschauung to be the omnipotent essence of any cultivation(Culture) and civilisation (and its variable aspects) of the modern Turkish citizen enforced with the Marxist economy-political doctrines within the national territory which enables them to have many different, various enemies in accordance with their doctrines in the domestic politics. Atatürk is also, of course, one of the cults employed in their discourse in politics yet its civil context is always never mentioned which would be quite difficult.

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan had recently made a one-sided ceasefire with Atatürk’s image in Turkish politics but remarkably it didn’t really intersect with those of the Ulusalcı discourse and preferred to have Atatürk image in peace with the Islamic movement in Turkey to which Ulusalcı movement fundamentally opposes, yet Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was all the way their most noticeable adversary.

Ulusalcı movement’s discourse involves highly the foreign politics especially when a huge ground of Turkic states are in the Eastern Asia, to which nationalist feelings can easily be adopted whereas those countries are also under-developed which acquires a economy-political dimension, as well, and most notable this region is also not a stabile place to maintain peaceful relations regarding also Turkey’s two neighbor countries are unfortunately in conflict.

Although they are self-claimed Eurasianists I have a little acquaintance of those Eurasian region and culture, which can’t be associated with of which Eurasia is here perceived as in Turkey. Orthodox Christianity in the baptism of the Eastern Cults is one fact can be mentioned although I am not really an authority on its theological aspect, it is necessary to consider those while taking into account this region. 



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“Der kultivierte Mensch hat seine Energie nach innen, der zivilisierte nach außen.”
-Oswald Spengler, Der Untergang des Abendlandes, Münschen: 1920

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