Nathan Shachar: Ankara was in a hurry to put a point
The arrest of Medin was part of a large and noisy campaign from the state, whose main number was the provision of Ekrem Imamoglu, Istanbul’s popular mayor and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s most dangerous competitor in the next presidential election. Medin, one of the journalists who arrived to cover the manifestations of the Imamoglu business, was appointed as a warning example.
But Erdogan, who often acted cautiously and tactically in previous crisis situations, now mistaken capital. The hard ones did not silence the critics and did not set the point for the crisis, but created a far greater crisis – where investors fled Turkey and half the currency reserve – $ 57 billion – burned in a couple of weeks during feverish attempts to save the currency. And the worst: the opposition party CHP, which Erdogan hoped to weaken, pulled away in the measurements.
In a passionate speech On Thursday to students in Ankara, Erdogan exclaimed:
– The old world order collapses, and a new one takes shape, with Turkey as its center!
As a taste of the new world order and Turkey’s new lead role as a stabilizing factor, the president mentioned negotiations in Istanbul between Ukraine and Russia, huge arms deals with US and President Donald Trump’s unexpected support for Syria’s Turkey -supported regime.
Such pretensions, And the magnificent days of the past days of democracy and justice about the newly started peace process with the Kurds, is in the process of imprisonment by Medin and the parodic charges of insult by the president and contact with terrorists.
Turkey wanted to set a point for the deal. New reports from Freedom House – which designate Turkey as « free » – and from the EU – which recommends that Turkey’s connection procedure be laid on ice, weighed heavily. A famous Turkish writer tells DN:
– Anyone who wants to play the role of peace broker and « bridge between east and west » in front of the outside world cannot at home bending disrespectful journalists, like a crazy emperor.
