Re: Kerem Kaya and Sinan Ikinci on Turkey
On May 1, 2007, at 5:42 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
Surprisingly sensible for WSWS (if you can ignore typical WSWS formulae at the end). — Yoshie
You mean this part?
The Kemalists represent the corrupt state bureaucracy, army and the traditional big banks and corporations, while the Islamists represent newer bourgeois layers who are no less ruthless, but keen to break up the established structures in order make their own enrichment easier. There is nothing progressive in either camp. The campaign of nationalism and repression by the Kemalists under the battle cry of secularism is in the final analysis directed against the democratic rights of the working class.
Sounds exactly right to me, but I’m no expert on Turkey.
Doug