the demonstrators are calling for the government to resign. But, I don’t think they have any other slogans and they are also aware of the fact that the government is not going to resign. Because at the end of the day, what separates Turkey from the other countries of the Arab Spring - and that’s why personally I don’t like this comparison of Arab Spring - is that in Turkey although our democracy might not be perfect, we do have elections. So, people will show their real position during the elections, but as Professor Bagci (the other guest) has said, you don’t express your feelings each time on the ballot box, you have the right to express your views to the government, you don’t have to wait for the ballot box. The problem is, people have felt very frustrated that for years this government has not taken their views their sensitivities, their feelings into account so there is a resentment and they wanted to show this resentment even before the elections. Now it is difficult to predict with how long this will continue.
Posted on: Tue, 04 Jun 2013 22:45:37 +0000
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