BY BEKIR COSKUN
HURRIYET- Have you noticed? Certain people newly have just become aware of the situation.
They saw the light!
They saw the real face of the religious people overrunning Turkey.
They finally understood:
Premier Recep Tayyip Erdogan never changed, his Justice and Development Party (AKP) has been sweeping away the republic's secularism.
Turkey is being driven away from the European Union.
Anatolia is looking like Arabistan.
They now realized that you can't go forward in reverse gear, and Turkey is going to waste.
After only six years.
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For six years, they fell over each other in a race to curry favor with the AKP.
They ran to get a seat on the premier's plane, and at the president's dinner table.
They praised the ruling party in their columns.
They covered up the truth, and threw hopes to the people.
Our TV screens were full of people and programs singing the government's praises.
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What about us?
They turned their backs when they saw us; our words and writings were beneath notice, we were deemed unworthy.
While calling on them to stop acting like this, we were suffering in the corners we were squeezed in.
We were hurt.
We tried to tell them that no reactionary attitude benefits society, we tried to convince them that backwards developments would sooner or later destroy society, but to no avail.
We were scolded and condemned.
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And now?
Now, everything is clearer.
While the premier was saying in Germany, `We're taking decisive steps, we'll reach the goal soon or later,' the world media was announcing that Turkey's secularism has collapsed.
The people who couldn't see this development for six years are the ones most deserving of condemnation.
It's time to ask them:
What will you do now?