Turkish president explains his push for more executive power: It worked for Hitler’s Germany

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan cited Nazi Germany under Adolf Hitler to defend his controversial push to expand the powers of the presidency, local media reported on Friday. Erdogan, the strongman of Turkish politics for more than a decade, is seeking a new constitution to transform his post into a powerful US-style executive “super-presidency”.

“In a unitary system (such as Turkey’s) a presidential system can work perfectly,” Erdogan was quoted as telling reporters in Istanbul on Thursday on his return from a visit to Saudi Arabia. “There are already examples in the world and in history. You can see it when you look at Hitler’s Germany,” he was quoted as saying. Erdogan, emboldened by his Justice and Development Party’s (AKP) landslide election win in November, has suggested holding a referendum on the proposed constitutional reforms.

Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu last week launched negotiations with other political parties on a new charter to replace the 1980 constitution drafted by the military after a coup that year. In his comments on Thursday, Erdogan — seen by critics as increasingly authoritarian — called for large-scale public consultations on the reforms to try to ensure a “full societal agreement”. Despite regaining its majority in parliament in the November election, the AKP does not command the required two-thirds of seats needed to change the constitution without the support of other parties.


http://www.rawstory.com/2016/01/turkish-president-explains-his-push-for-more-executive-power-it-worked-for-hitlers-germany/


If ever there was a connection?????

Turkey

Mein Kampf was widely available and growing in popularity in Turkey, even to the point where it became a bestseller, selling up to 100,000 copies in just two months in 2005. Analysts and commentators believe the popularity of the book to be related to a rise in nationalism, anti-U.S. and antisemitic sentiment "because of what is happening in the Middle East, the Israeli-Palestinian problem and the war in Iraq".Doğu Ergil, a political scientist at Ankara University, said both left-wingers, the far-right and Islamists, had found common ground—"not on a common agenda for the future, but on their anxieties, fears and hate

Lol..why not, since we are poo-pooing pc these days?

more regressive leftyism...

it always seems sad to me when a supposedly intelligent person cant tell the difference between a dislike of "PC" and all this it implies, and state sanctioned, wholesale removal and abrogation of human rights....


clearly regressive leftyism is associated with a very narrow breadth of thinking ability....they obviously need things "simple" and clear cut....

hence they are on a race to the lowest common denominator in all things

What a knuckle-dragger like you calls "state sanctioned, wholesale removal and abrogation of human rights...." can also easily be the next Hitler.

Be careful what you wish for, Deja poo.