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2.5 Polls and sociology
Social media in Turkey is boiling over with anti-migrant propaganda. Hot-headed ideas are in circulation for transporting migrants back to their homelands.
Since the US withdrawal from Afghanistan last August, Turkey’s problem with uncontrolled migration has moved up a few places on the long list of the country’s woes that have got beyond the point where they can be solved.
Curiously, the Erdogan regime has been pushing Turkish doctors and engineers to depart Germany for home, while not even registering who is entering Turkey via its eastern and southern borders.
Turkey is not famous for solving its problems. Instead, it is skillful in doing whatever is required to necrotise them.
Turkey seems rather determined to create some serious violence over the migrants in the country. It is also well capable of doing so. Almost every day by now, there are clashes in various neighbourhoods.
As an example of the Turkish state’s more organised track record in creating violence, there is the determined killing and torturing of a sufficient number of Kurds per season (the season begins in spring). Such determination managed to create and sustain the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which, still motivated by the Turkish state’s bombing operations, is sailing through its 50th birthday.
The PKK even managed to found a state in northern Syria under US patronage. Islamic State then broke in between the Kurds and the Damascus regime. While Erdogan was protesting “Kobane is falling” to Islamic State, Turkey gained a new neighbour, which carries posters of PKK founder Abdullah Ocalan.
It's a matter of time before murderous violence in socially corroded Turkey against migrants flares up. It would be no surprise if it breaks out soon or at the point where the Erdogan regime loses at the polls (elections are due at some point by June 2023 at the latest). Some state violence might help escalate the process.
The latest wave of political tension flared up with dogfights over migrants. Next, media headlines suggested that Erdogan had banned CHP Istanbul chair Canan Kaftancioglu from politics. This may sound like a big deal, but she will be around to do her job.
In general, Turkey always changes its agenda faster than its shirt. Even if a nuclear bomb hit the country, it would top the agenda for no more than three days. Then, some thick-headed brawl among politicians would take over the news.
As a response to Erdogan’s Kaftancioglu move, opposition chief Kilicdaroglu shone some attention on Sadat, a company that officially provides paramilitary services.
Kilicdaroglu can’t even manage to enter a public toilet in Turkey. However, in a sign of how weak the regime has become, officials took Kilicdaroglu’s Sadat move with some seriousness.
Then, Kilicdaroglu exploded into view waving documents that he claims show Erdogan is transferring money abroad in advance of fleeing the country when he loses the election.
18 TURKEY Country Report June 2022 www.intellinews.com