[lbo-talk] 300,000 rally against Turkish government

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

On 4/16/07, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> On Apr 16, 2007, at 9:00 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>
> > Maybe it's a good idea to look into who was behind the demo before
> > getting too excited about it.
>
> Not everyone can be as knowledgeable and resourceful as you, so of
> course we're all in your debt for filling in the gaps in our
> knowledge. But what was truly outrageous was your false and libelous
> assertion that many western leftists would prefer a military
> dictatorship to a democracy if it repressed Islam.

For instance, if the "deep state" in Turkey decides to check
democracy, does so more or less bloodlessly, and the corporate media
portray that as an action in response to popular* demand for
secularism, how will most Western liberals and leftists react
(assuming that they react at all)?

* As you can gauge from the demo and polls, the military is not
without its constituency, albeit fewer and generally of higher classes
and strata than the AKP voters.
-- 
Yoshie