Five years after the failed coup attempt.. Erdogan's regime towards more repression, arbitrariness and dictatorship

Ankara-Sana

Despite the passage of five years since the failed coup attempt in Turkey, the President of the Turkish regime, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, continues his attempts to impose and expand his authority through endless repression against his opponents and those who reject his policies that have brought Turkey to a deteriorating state at various levels.

According to many analysts, the attempted coup on July 15, 2016 contributed above all to “accelerating the authoritarian trend of Erdogan, who significantly strengthened his powers in 2017 by replacing the parliamentary system with a presidential system that concentrated power in my hands” and allowed him to “provide pretexts and arguments.” flimsy crackdown on dissent.”

Despite the criticism of his regime, Erdogan continues the crackdown, as the arrests of those suspected of links to the Turkish preacher Fethullah Gulen, who was accused of orchestrating the coup attempt, continue on a daily basis, while a ban is imposed on the Peoples’ Democratic Party, which imprisoned many of its deputies, and continues to close opposition media institutions and imprison journalists. and restricting media freedom.

In terms of numbers, since 2016, more than 300,000 people have been arrested in the context of suppressing the opposition, and nearly 3,000 people have been sentenced to life imprisonment. More than 100,000 employees of public institutions, including about 23,000 soldiers, and 4,000 judges, have been dismissed in prosecutions carried out by the Erdogan regime on Unprecedented scope.

The pursuit of opponents abroad also continues, as the Turkish regime’s intelligence carried out several operations in Central Asian, African and Balkan countries to return opponents by force to Turkey, the latest of which was Ankara’s announcement in early July that it had “returned a Turkish teacher living in Kyrgyzstan, Orhan Inandi, who disappeared a few weeks ago.” Which you claim is one of the cadres of the Gulen movement.

With all this repression and arbitrariness and attempts to silence mouths, voices are rising in Turkey in rejection of Erdogan’s policies and his regime, which have brought the country to an unprecedented state at various levels, where the economic crises, the collapse of the lira and the flight of foreign investments are exacerbated, especially after the spread of corruption and the involvement of Erdogan and those close to him and officials in the Justice Party government And development a large number of scandals.

Tensions are also escalating with various countries due to the interventionist policies and support for terrorism, in addition to the social crises that afflict Turkey because of these policies and practices.