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The yelling culture!
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Many people thought the prime minister was making a joke when he declared a while back that yelling was a form of elocution. But he was not, and indeed has since proved that he is a master of that particular form of oration - a true "yellator"! Erdoğan has been yelling at those who either challenge his absolute leadership or refuse to give him their allegiance.
He was rather happy seeing, splashed on the front pages of the media in allegiance to him and his Justice and Development Party, or AKP, reports on the so-called Ergenekon case, including testimonies of the suspects and bits and pieces from the indictment and the volumes of alleged supporting evidence. He did not utter a word against nor question the conformity to laws or to morality of the people being tried and judged on the front pages of the country’s newspapers before they were even officially accused.
But Erdoğan is very angry nowadays... So angry that he has reached the peak of his "yellatory" skills. He is on the TV every evening, "yellatoring" against those who deny him their allegiance and talk about corruption in AKP’s hierarchy, the Islamist Lighthouse charity fund scam or the scandalous deals in some municipalities headed by AKP mayors...
How could he avoid getting angry? The non-obedient media has been reporting about the financial crisis, publishing analysis by prominent economists who warn that while the government might succeed in "postponing" the impacts of the crisis hitting ordinary Turks, after the local elections Turkey will have to pay heavily for its delayed action against this devastating calamity.
Already, Turkey has become a world champion in unemployment and soon will become the leader of the "league of nations in poverty" because Recep Tayyip Erdoğan the First, the undisputed sultan of the country, decided the crisis would bypass Turkey and only the enterprises and businesses administered by incapable bosses would collapse.
With corruption at ever-higher levels, misuse of offices to provide lucrative deals to friends, relatives and people formerly convicted on charges of Islamism, the economy going astray and Turks being condemned again to unemployment, poverty and worse, the patience of the most gracious sultan has grown thin; he is trying to silence his critics through oppressive methods of all sorts, turning the country into a land of prohibitions. Still, there are critics writing on corruption, poverty and nepotism in governance.
How could he tolerate such talk, which underscores not only the failure of Erdoğan and his government to live up to their 2002 pledge of fighting corruption, misuse of office, nepotism and such, but highlights an intensification of such crimes in the country under his and his party’s governance? The prime minister is thus very angry, "yellatoring" around in hopes of scaring and silencing the non-allegiant media and avoiding having all that dirty laundry of the AKP exposed further to the Turkish public.
Failed pledges
But is Erdoğan not the prime minister who has been promising the nation, from his first days in office in 2003, that Turkey would diligently fight against corruption, poverty and prohibitions, the so-called "Three Ys" ("yolsuzluk," "yoksulluk" and "yasaklar" in Turkish)? Was he not the person who pledged that in his party and government no one could "erase the rights of orphans and stay on"?
Are we wrong if we say that rather than "yellatoring" at critics, the prime minister should try to question where he has made a mistake? To realize that this polarization of the nation that some of his adulators have been working day and night to create for reasons difficult for us to understand may eventually land his government and the country itself in a very awkward situation that we would not even wish to consider?
Are we wrong to expect our prime minister, rather than "yellatoring," to be concerned with where this country is indeed going if in the heart of Ankara, right in front of the Prime Ministry, a retired police officer can attempt suicide; if a father can kill his children, his wife and himself in an Ankara neighborhood; if the unemployment rate has reached a world-record level and indications show that there will not be any improvement any time soon?
But Erdoğan is very angry nowadays... So angry that he has reached the peak of his "yellatory" skills. He is on the TV every evening, "yellatoring" against those who deny him their allegiance and talk about corruption in AKP’s hierarchy, the Islamist Lighthouse charity fund scam or the scandalous deals in some municipalities headed by AKP mayors...
How could he avoid getting angry? The non-obedient media has been reporting about the financial crisis, publishing analysis by prominent economists who warn that while the government might succeed in "postponing" the impacts of the crisis hitting ordinary Turks, after the local elections Turkey will have to pay heavily for its delayed action against this devastating calamity.
Already, Turkey has become a world champion in unemployment and soon will become the leader of the "league of nations in poverty" because Recep Tayyip Erdoğan the First, the undisputed sultan of the country, decided the crisis would bypass Turkey and only the enterprises and businesses administered by incapable bosses would collapse.
With corruption at ever-higher levels, misuse of offices to provide lucrative deals to friends, relatives and people formerly convicted on charges of Islamism, the economy going astray and Turks being condemned again to unemployment, poverty and worse, the patience of the most gracious sultan has grown thin; he is trying to silence his critics through oppressive methods of all sorts, turning the country into a land of prohibitions. Still, there are critics writing on corruption, poverty and nepotism in governance.
How could he tolerate such talk, which underscores not only the failure of Erdoğan and his government to live up to their 2002 pledge of fighting corruption, misuse of office, nepotism and such, but highlights an intensification of such crimes in the country under his and his party’s governance? The prime minister is thus very angry, "yellatoring" around in hopes of scaring and silencing the non-allegiant media and avoiding having all that dirty laundry of the AKP exposed further to the Turkish public.
Failed pledges
But is Erdoğan not the prime minister who has been promising the nation, from his first days in office in 2003, that Turkey would diligently fight against corruption, poverty and prohibitions, the so-called "Three Ys" ("yolsuzluk," "yoksulluk" and "yasaklar" in Turkish)? Was he not the person who pledged that in his party and government no one could "erase the rights of orphans and stay on"?
Are we wrong if we say that rather than "yellatoring" at critics, the prime minister should try to question where he has made a mistake? To realize that this polarization of the nation that some of his adulators have been working day and night to create for reasons difficult for us to understand may eventually land his government and the country itself in a very awkward situation that we would not even wish to consider?
Are we wrong to expect our prime minister, rather than "yellatoring," to be concerned with where this country is indeed going if in the heart of Ankara, right in front of the Prime Ministry, a retired police officer can attempt suicide; if a father can kill his children, his wife and himself in an Ankara neighborhood; if the unemployment rate has reached a world-record level and indications show that there will not be any improvement any time soon?
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