Islamic democracy

Following the Council of State's decision to reinstate some judges and prosecutors who were dismissed due to their alleged links with the FETÖ terror group, a top council has initiated a new review process for these judicial members, Justice Minister Yılmaz Tunç has said.

A deal between Türkiye and the United States on the sale of 40 new F-16s to the former creates a window of opportunity for further improving the bilateral ties should the latter show more respect to the Turkish sensitivities in combatting terrorism.

The National Security Council (MGK) has convened to evaluate critical political, military and economic developments pertaining to Türkiye's security, focusing primarily on issues such as terrorism and the humanitarian situation in Gaza.

Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya has revealed that 445 active police officers, allegedly affiliated with FETÖ, the group behind the 2016 failed coup, have been suspended pending further investigation.

How nice were our dreams when we were entering the "information age." All totalitarian regimes, left and right, had fallen. The correctness of democracy and the market economy were certainly proven. 

The "Arab Spring" had elevated this optimism all together; "Muslim democracy" concepts started being debated. 

Paradoxically, the end of the secular republic in Turkey also marks the end of Islamism or Islamist politics in Turkey and elsewhere. The Turkish Parliament is currently voting on a constitutional change that will usher in a so-called Turkish type of presidential system, or "President of the Republic System" as the governing party dubs it.

Nearly 160 inmates escaped after suspected Muslim rebels attacked a jail in the southern Philippines before dawn on Jan. 4, and at least six people were shot dead as pursuing government forces traded fire with gunmen, officials said.

The election is over. Now we know which direction Turkey is heading in, along with the construction of a new regime. 

About a decade ago, the (politically) Western hemisphere enthusiastically volunteered for a political experiment based on generous euphemism for ?moderate? Islamism, unable to see that there is only Islamism and there are only physically more violent forms of Islamism. The West had fallen in love with something that did not exist.

?Reset? was the title of the Stephen Kinzer book (2010, Times Book) on the possible prospects of the Middle East. Indeed, things evolved into a reset in the Middle East in the last few years, but not in the way that Kinzer imagined or wished.