Is Turkey headed back to the 1990s
Date
9/12/2015 3:20:04 AM
(MENAFN- The Journal Of Turkish Weekly) According to the Daily Telegraph the recent attacks experienced in Turkey - such as those on the offices of Hurriyet and the HDP - have stoked fears of civil war in the minds of Turkish citizens causing many to return to the cultic question: “Are we headed back to the 1990s?”
The state of emergency in the Southeastern Anatolia Region where conflict between the PKK and Turkish security forces has been most intense has also fed this fear of civil war and a return to the 1990s a period characterized by continual clashes and violence throughout Turkey.
It is within this psychological atmosphere that Mehmet Yegin Head of the USAK Center for American Studies voiced his opinion on the current events during a televised segment on NTV. According to Yegin the breakdown of the Turkish-Kurdish brotherhood would not benefit the country. He points out that what has happened in Daglica Igdir and other cities could exert disruptive effects on the minds of the general public. At the same time he emphasized that rising tension might prove to be destructive when it comes to Turkey’s larger democratization process.
Quoted by Today’s Zaman Psychologist Rüveyda Çelenk Ylmaz who is a political psychologist emphasized the role that fear plays in the behavior of individuals: “The public is very scared and feels helpless. They don't know whether or not the streets they walk on or the Metrobus they take will be bombed or not. Therefore there is a lot of fear and anxiety.”*
*http://www.todayszaman.com/anasayfa_fear-and-anxiety-sweep-nation-as-turkey-wages-unprecedented-war-on-two-terror-fronts_395242.html
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