The failure or unwillingness of the West to fight DAESH lies under the reason that the strongest human forces support for the terrorist organization comes from Western countries
It is a great opportunity for the new era to be getting started through what has been a “good” election in terms of security, participation, and representation. In contrast, an election with low participation, unfair representation, and with doubts of dishonesty hanging over it would have caused enormous headaches for Turkey.
It would be useful for secular oppositionists to wake up from all the illusions about the “dictator” that they have succumbed to. Facing them, in the most democratic country of the entire Islamic world, is a government that has earned its right to rule through the most legitimate means imaginable. A reality-check is in order.
Regardless of what anybody might say in defence, to try to explain a movement that persists in ceaselessly murdering hundreds of people by reference to global injustices is bound to open a window of legitimacy, in normal human perceptions, for such massacres.
Just where has IS come from? Is it not a product of the desperation caused by the disasters that have struck Iraq and Syria, the resulting rage of the excluded and humiliated Sunni Muslims, and their loss of any hope for their future? And just how has this environment been created?