Dogu Ergil, "Turkey's Crisis and Future," MIT Center for International Studies. August 2008.
A REBUTTAL
By the thinnest of margins the Constitutional Court permitted the governing Justice and Development party government to proceed with its Muslimizing programme, permitting young women to wear the jihab at universities. You note, moreover, that the party has "lost its enthusiasm" for liberalizing and democratizing Turkey in its quixotic quest for EU membership.
Predictably you condemn the Ergenekon discussants as aspiring to impose "an isolationaist dictatorial regime" upon the secular republic established by the actions of General Kemal Ataturk. The hypothetical popular demands you visualize for "liberalization and globalization" may conceivably echo the programme advocated in Langley, VA, but it is dubious if Anatolian farmers in their mosques and the urbanized Istanbul elite, meeting in coffee shops or Mariott Hotel bars, really desire to be "globalized" under the credit pump of fiat currency underlying the marketization of the Anglo-American economic model. Progressive devaluations undercut the currency of the Ottomans, and loom ever closer for the American dollar. Criticism of the coup mentality is singularly ill-timed in the post-Cold War era, when the actions of Boris Yeltsin to summon 1300 Russian troops to bombard the elected deputies of the Russian Parliament in their skyscraper (the "White House") elicit the applause of his Harvard biographer.
Far from the fraudulent choice posed by Prof. Ergil, that Turkey must choose "Westernization" or ostracism, it would be better advised to cultivate the path of Pan-Turanism advanced by Enver Pasha and re-ignite the cooperation of colonized non-white nationalities as envisaged by Sultan-Galiev after 1918, with this difference--that the newly resurgent national state cooperate with the new Shanghai Cooperation Council, Pakistan, and the dynamic economies of the emerging Asian giants as they recycle petroleum income invested by Muslim states around the Persian Gulf.
The Muslim masses and secularizing elite may well discover a new Silk Road to Eurasian prosperity if they imbibe a colonic to purge themselves of the constipation of Western-style marketization and the Pentagon-Brussels axis of military bureaucracy through which illusory waves of parliamentary approval are suborned or purchased by manipulators of fiat-financed investment vehicles.
--Dr. Diogenes
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