Ann Applebaum ın Wash Post yazısına cevabım

2 Nis, 2008Mektuplarım ve Yankılar

Dear Anne Applebaum:

It is promising to see an article in Washington Post with an objective view, rather then bias view of the Bush administration. And I thank you for that.

There is enough books published, listing the facts that establishes the present government AKP of Turkey being brought to power, and backed to keep it there, by the Bush administration. There is sufficient reason to believe that, as part of the Great Middle East Plan, Turkey has been selected to be a Muslim country, as they called it “Moderate Muslim”, and be a model to the others in the region.

The very basic principle of transforming Turkey to a Muslim country is to destroy it’s democracy and undermined the existing constitution of Turkey, which states that Laicism is unchangeable.

The headscarf issue, aside being a symbol of radical Islam and Sharia, its used as a bone thrown to the public to disguise/cover-up other radical Muslim issues in progress.

In your article you refer to the defense of secularism. In fact what the court of low is trying to protect is laicism. Turkey is not secular. AS in France Turkey is laic. Permit me to clarify:

In secularism, both The State and the Church would co-exist in the public domain, but would be separate from each other and would not interfere with each other.That means that the Church would not get into politics, and the State would not interfere in religion.

In France, the Revolution of 1789 broke the backbone of the Catholic Church. There was no settlement with the Church. The Church was simply totally excluded from the public domain. The public domain belonged completely to the State. That was called “Laicism”.

France and Turkey are laic. Most of the western countries are secular.

In the secular west countries, because of the make up of the Christian religion, state and the Church can coexist. Church does not have the necessity to inter fair in public affairs and in governing. There fore democracy is possible and has been working with Christianity and secularism.

Muslim religion accepts Prophet Mohammed’s writings, Koran, as the words of God. There for it can not and has never have been changed. The low of the religion is sharia. Sharia is the low to govern not only the religion but the people as well. Therefore since there can not be two sets of lows to govern in a democracy, where there is secularism and Sharia, there can be no democracy. They can not coexist.

For this reason, when the new republic was established in 1922, Ataturk adopted laicism, taken the model from France.

If democracy need to exist in a Muslim country, it can only exist , if the country is laic.

Turkish constitution defined the republic of Turkey as being laic, not secular.

The main problem in Turkey today is the desire of some to dismantle laicism under the disguise of misconstrued secularism. It is a double ended sward to destroy Turkish democracy, and unity.
Accordingly, some of the western scholars are falling for the deception, while some others are knowingly happy, that it is happening.

The headscarf issue is just the tip of the iceberg. If the west insist on dismantling Turkish laicism, and turn it in to a Muslim country, while Middle East can never be democratic, Turkey as well will loose its democracy.

I thank you again caring enough about the truth and devoting enough time to write without being politically motivated.

With regards,

Turgut A. Karabekir

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