Looks like it is starting out like the other Arab spring battles, but in this one it appears that the leader of Turkey is trying to become more Islamic and curtailing liquor sales and the rioters feel they are losing freedoms.
It would be nice to see one of these battles go the secularists way.
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
No liquor sales within 100 meters of a mosque and 17,000 new mosques have been built in the last decade, so many restaurants will have to take it off the menu and with no liquor sales after 10PM, so nightclubs will be closing early.
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
bailey bud wrote: The liquor curtailing wasn't much beyond what we have in some US States
I was surprised by the tenor of the reaction.
Historically, Turkey's military has enforced secularism. This seems like a real curious turn-around.
I have a really good friend from high school who lives in Istanbul. The PM is not liked at all by the general public, but because of the way they vote it's hard to muster enough percentage of the vote to get him and his party out. These protests were sparked by a very unpopular gov't move and the pics I saw had no MP, just regular police handling the rioters. It will be interesting to see how it continues.
OWS was all over this protest on FB - the pictures of the bridge over the Bosphorous completely filled with people was impressive.
"Now, more than ever, the illusions of division threaten our very existence. We all know the truth: more connects us than separates us. But in times of crisis the wise build bridges, while the foolish build barriers. We must find a way to look after one another as if we were one single tribe.” -King T'Challa, Black Panther
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it. ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. ~Winston Churchill
Apparently the military is rolling in (my friend passed flatbeds with tanks on them on his way into work just now)...
"Now, more than ever, the illusions of division threaten our very existence. We all know the truth: more connects us than separates us. But in times of crisis the wise build bridges, while the foolish build barriers. We must find a way to look after one another as if we were one single tribe.” -King T'Challa, Black Panther
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it. ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. ~Winston Churchill
