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EXPERT: SITUATION IN TURKEY REFLECTS PROCESSES DEVELOPING IN DAR AL-ISLAM
ARMINFO
Tuesday, June 4, 15:12
The situation in Turkey reflects processes developing in Dar al-Islam,
director of the Armenian Centre for National and International Studies,
Manvel Sargsyan, told ArmInfo correspondent when commenting on recent
disorders in Turkey.
"These are rather serious and big processes. But it is not clear yet
if they will gain the organized nature or not. The position of the
state structures and army to the given processes is not clear either",
- the expert said.
He also added that if the situation goes on developing, the army will
play a crucial role. "If the army supports the ruling regime, the
situation will be similar to that in Syria. But if the army supports
the people, the process will develop the way it used to develop in
Tunis", - he said.
On May 28 2013, a few hundred people gathered at Istanbul's Gezi Park.
They were there to protest the demolition of Taksim's last remaining
public park. The people gathered in the park were mostly environmental
activists, leftists, and a few outspoken public figures; artists,
musicians, actors-actresses. They had only one aim: to protect the
trees in the park from being cut down (or 'transferred to a more
suitable spot as claimed by the government representatives) and to
protest the planned construction of a replica of 19th century Ottoman
Barracks in its place, which was to serve as a luxury residence and
Istanbul's 94th shopping mall. They could not have known that they
were about to ignite the biggest civil protest movement Turkey has
witnessed in the last three decades.
ARMINFO
Tuesday, June 4, 15:12
The situation in Turkey reflects processes developing in Dar al-Islam,
director of the Armenian Centre for National and International Studies,
Manvel Sargsyan, told ArmInfo correspondent when commenting on recent
disorders in Turkey.
"These are rather serious and big processes. But it is not clear yet
if they will gain the organized nature or not. The position of the
state structures and army to the given processes is not clear either",
- the expert said.
He also added that if the situation goes on developing, the army will
play a crucial role. "If the army supports the ruling regime, the
situation will be similar to that in Syria. But if the army supports
the people, the process will develop the way it used to develop in
Tunis", - he said.
On May 28 2013, a few hundred people gathered at Istanbul's Gezi Park.
They were there to protest the demolition of Taksim's last remaining
public park. The people gathered in the park were mostly environmental
activists, leftists, and a few outspoken public figures; artists,
musicians, actors-actresses. They had only one aim: to protect the
trees in the park from being cut down (or 'transferred to a more
suitable spot as claimed by the government representatives) and to
protest the planned construction of a replica of 19th century Ottoman
Barracks in its place, which was to serve as a luxury residence and
Istanbul's 94th shopping mall. They could not have known that they
were about to ignite the biggest civil protest movement Turkey has
witnessed in the last three decades.