[🇵🇰] No Khan do: With the favorite in jail and violence rising, Pakistan’s elections look like a problem not the solution

[LegionnairE]

Turkish people themselves finally got rid of the deep state in 2016, as you can see below:
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Please delete these images, this isn't something to be proud of, this was the most shameful day of Turkey in 21st century.

Who organized the coup wasn't some sort of "establishment" just a bunch of cultists who infiltrated the government.


I must say, Pakistan-Turkey comparisons are wildly inaccurate and completely detached from reality.

What the Turkish people did in 2016 was deciding factor for not just Turkey, but the region as a whole. Although @LegionnairE may have differences with Erdogan, I believe he also is against the coup attempt.

Erdogan himself allowed these cultists to infiltrate the military. Before him Turkish army hunted them down and kicked them out of their ranks.

"We got fooled" - Erdogan after the 2016 coup attempt. He himself admitted his fault. This wasn't a victorious day for him, it's probably still one of his biggest shames.

 

[Old School]

Please delete these images, this isn't something to be proud of, this was the most shameful day of Turkey in 21st century.

Who organized the coup wasn't some sort of "establishment" just a bunch of cultists who infiltrated the government.


I must say, Pakistan-Turkey comparisons are wildly inaccurate and completely detached from reality.


Erdogan himself allowed these cultists to infiltrate the military. Before him Turkish army hunted them down and kicked them out of their ranks.

"We got fooled" - Erdogan after the 2016 coup attempt. He himself admitted his fault. This wasn't a victorious day for him, it's probably still one of his biggest shames.

I appreciate your feedback. Do you have experience working with government/ military ?

 

[Old School]

Yes I have to agree that the Military in Bangladesh is pretty ruthless in carrying out its interests. However they are all kept in check nowadays by PM Hasina. They hardly have any ambition to be in power anymore. They are happy as long as lucrative govt. contracts and UN postings are in the pipeline for senior officers. The military-owned business/industrial complexes making FMCG products are hugely profitable and compete well with privately owned commercial companies.

I was posted in Bangladesh on my professional capacity for some time. I still maintain good contacts with BD officials from FO to military. My impression is that a large part of urban middle class has a martial law fetish. They want direct martial law to return. The same is true in Pakistan and other muslim majority countries.

 

[Vikings]

However they are all kept in check nowadays by PM Hasina.

Couldn't it be opposite ? Couldn't it be possible that Hasina is just the front face of Bangladeshi deep state?

 

[LegionnairE]

I appreciate your feedback. Do you have experience working with government/ military ?

You don't have to have any experience working in the government to know any of this. Everybody in Turkey knows this stuff, even kids.