To expand on that, the new (now 10 years long) party in control of Turkey's government has been fining and jailing media companies, journalists, and prominent businessmen who don't toe the party line. A common technique is to charge "unpaid taxes" that exceed the value of the person or company's assets.
They have popular support for this. They have been re-elected twice, gaining millions of votes each time.
The crackdown on dissent in the military is important because under the 20th-century regime, the military had the duty of maintaining the secular character of the state and would regularly overthrow governments that seemed to become Islamic. The charge that people in the military are planning to overthrow the government is immediately
believable, but so many people have been arrested and the evidence against them is so thin that it appears like a partisan purge. Here is some commentary:
Turkey has recently begun also arresting officers involved in the 1997 coup against the same Islamic party. They waited ten years to collect the power to do this.
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/09/16/turkey.press....
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41935210/ns/world_news-europe/t/...
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/16/business/turkey-seizes-219...
http://www.reuters.com/article/2007/06/26/idUSL2690587920070...
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/default.aspx?pageid=438&...
http://www.economist.com/node/17155758
They have popular support for this. They have been re-elected twice, gaining millions of votes each time.
The crackdown on dissent in the military is important because under the 20th-century regime, the military had the duty of maintaining the secular character of the state and would regularly overthrow governments that seemed to become Islamic. The charge that people in the military are planning to overthrow the government is immediately believable, but so many people have been arrested and the evidence against them is so thin that it appears like a partisan purge. Here is some commentary:
http://www.opendemocracy.net/burhan-gurdogan/turkey’s-ergene...
http://rodrik.typepad.com/dani_rodriks_weblog/2011/12/güleni...
Soner Cagaptay has been the most prolific writer on the subject:
https://duckduckgo.com/html/?q=soner+cagaptay+ergenekon
Turkey has recently begun also arresting officers involved in the 1997 coup against the same Islamic party. They waited ten years to collect the power to do this.
http://www.b92.net/eng/news/world-article.php?yyyy=2012&...
http://www.todayszaman.com/news-279788-saner-the-impaler-amo...
Turkey's military has since surrendered its command.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/turkey/8671...
Meanwhile in Parliament, a member of the ruling party can assault an opposition member and the legislature will vote to approve of the attack.
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/turkish-parliament-sees-fre...
Turkey is currently the base of operations for the rebel forces of Syria who are largely Islamic fascists. I do not believe this to be a coincidence.
http://content.usatoday.com/dist/custom/gci/InsidePage.aspx?...
http://www.worldjewishcongress.org/en/news/11762/wjc_analysi...
http://pjmedia.com/barryrubin/2011/10/22/scoop-obama-adminis...
http://araborthodoxy.blogspot.com/2012/03/christians-expelle...
http://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/2012/06/save-syria-demand-...