On Friday morning, the
Turkish police took the two co-leaders of the main Kurdish opposition party (HDP)
and several deputies under arrest. Officially, this was reported as being a counterterrorism
measure. Apart from Turkish state media, it resembles to the world as another
move of Turkey’s president Erdogan to erase his opponents and to transform the state
into a dictatorship.
Only in summer this
year, Erdogan has made use of a coup attempt (faked or not faked) to start
cleansing his parliament from those opponents that prevented him to get the
total majority in the elections 2015 that would have enabled him to change the
presidential system in his favor. Since the coup attempt the imprisonment of thousands
of teachers, officials, lawyers etc. sympathizing with the pro-Kurdish party took
place. This fueled a civil war in the south-east of Turkey. Europe is following
this development with increasing anxiety. Turkey, being applicant to become a
member of the European Union, risks to lose its status. Also, Europe is
becoming more aware of the responsibility to take action in in order to prevent establishment of a dictatorship at its borders.
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