It was 66 years ago today.
\nOn the morning of May 27, 1960, Turkey woke up to the sound of tanks. The army seized power. However, the Democrat Party had come to power on May 14, 1950 with the votes of the people. For the first time in Turkey, the one-party system that thought it owned the state had been defeated at the ballot box.<\/p>\n
But some centers in this country never believed that the nation's choice was enough.<\/p>\n
After 10 years, an elected prime minister was put on trial along with his ministers. It was not enough; he was executed.
\nToday, still no one has been able to put in their conscience the feeling that \u201cthose courts were fair\u201d. Because it was not about law, it was about power.<\/p>\n
May 27th was not just a coup d'\u00e9tat.
\nMay 27 is the date when the shadow of \u201ctutelage\u201d was cast over the ballot box in Turkey.<\/p>\n
Since then, democracy has always been lacking in this country. Elections were held but a stick was always held over the elected ones. Sometimes the military, sometimes the judiciary, sometimes the bureaucracy, sometimes the media were used to try to regulate politics.<\/p>\n
The sad thing is that even those who criticized May 27 for years started to use the same tutelary language when they came to power. Because most of the time in this country, the issue was not democracy, but who would control the power.<\/p>\n
Real democracy is not just about the ballot box.
\nTrue democracy is when the law, not the gun, speaks against the elected.
\nNot purging people because they don't like the idea.
\nNot to turn the state into the farm of a group, party or ideology.<\/p>\n
66 years have passed.
\nIf Turkey is still talking about coups, if there are still concerns that the law works according to the individual, if people still live in fear of \u201cwhat will happen to me tomorrow\u201d, then democracy is still incomplete in this country.<\/p>\n
Without understanding May 27th, it is impossible to understand Turkey's democracy problem. Because that day not only a government was overthrown, but also the nation's trust in the ballot box was severely damaged.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
G\u00fcn\u00fcm\u00fczden 66 y\u0131l \u00f6nceydi\u2026 27 May\u0131s 1960 sabah\u0131 T\u00fcrkiye, tank sesleriyle yeni bir d\u00f6neme uyand\u0131. Ordu y\u00f6netime el koydu. Oysa Demokrat Parti, 14 May\u0131s 1950\u2019de halk\u0131n oyuyla iktidara gelmi\u015fti. T\u00fcrkiye\u2019de ilk kez devletin sahibi oldu\u011funu d\u00fc\u015f\u00fcnen tek parti d\u00fczeni sand\u0131kta yenilmi\u015fti. Ama bu \u00fclkede baz\u0131 odaklar hi\u00e7bir zaman milletin se\u00e7iminin yeterli oldu\u011funa inanmad\u0131. 10 y\u0131l […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":286240,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[286],"tags":[289],"class_list":["post-286239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-yazarlar","tag-manset"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286239"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":286242,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286239\/revisions\/286242"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}