Perdana Menteri Turki Recep Tayyip Erdogan (Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan
(AFP Photo/Adem Altan – think IN pictures @1WORLDCommunity)
SitiWanMahani - Perdana Menteri Turki Tayyip Erdogan berkata, beliau
juga akan merobohkan sebuah masjid demi satu projek pembinaan, dan telah
menolak bantahan alam sekitar terhadap pelan bangunan bercita-cita tinggi
sebagai “rompakan.”
Dalam ucapan yang panas, aduan ke atas kesan alam
sekitar projek untuk membina jambatan yang ke-3 Bosphorus, Erdogan berkata, “Semuanya
boleh dikorbankan untuk jalan-raya.”
“Walaupun terdapat sebuah masjid di hadapan jalan
raya, kita akan merobohkan masjid itu dan membina semula di tempat lain,” katanya.
Dalam ucapannya, Erdogan juga dirujuk rancangan untuk membina jalan raya
melalui kampus Ankara Timur Tengah
Universiti Teknikal. Aktivis alam sekitar telah
dianjurkan beberapa bantahan terhadap projek itu, yang mendakwa beratus-ratus pokok
perlu ditebang untuk jalan-raya untuk pergi ke hadapan .
Erdogan memanggil pembangkang “penyamun tidak
beradab” dan menuduh mereka tidak berkongsi nilai-nilai masyarakat.
“Kita tidak akan berhenti kerana seseorang berkata
demikian. Penyamun yang digunakan untuk menyekat jalan-raya pada masa lalu,
sekarang penyamun2 moden menyekat jalan raya,” katanya.
Sikap tanpa kompromi Erdogan dalam pelbagai projek
pembinaan telah menyebabkan kegemparan di kalangan pengkritiknya. Penunjuk
perasaan anti-kerajaan telah mengkritik Erdogan untuk apa yang mereka katakan
sebagai langkah semakin autoritarian berikutan tindakan keras kejam ke atas
penunjuk perasaan di Gezi Park di Istanbul musim panas itu.
Turkey’s Erdogan declares he would destroy mosque to
make way for roads. Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan has said he would
even demolish a mosque for the sake of a construction project, and has
dismissed environmental protests against his ambitious building plans as
“banditry.”
In a heated speech, addressing complaints over the
environmental ramifications of a project to construct a third Bosphorus bridge,
Erdogan said, “Everything can be sacrificed for roads.” .
“Even if there is a mosque in front of a road, we
would demolish that mosque and rebuild it somewhere else,” he said. In his
speech, Erdogan also referred to plans to construct a road through the campus
of Ankara’s Middle East
Technical University. Environmental activists have
organized a number of protests against the project, claiming that hundreds of
trees would have to be felled for the road to go ahead.
Erdogan called the opposition “uncivilized bandits”
and accused them of not sharing society’s values.
“We won’t stop because somebody says so. Bandits
used to block roads in the past, now modern bandits are blocking the roads,” he
said.
Erdogan’s uncompromising attitude on various
construction projects has caused uproar among his critics. Anti-government
protesters have criticized Erdogan for what they describe as increasingly
authoritarian measures following the brutal crackdowns on protesters in Gezi
Park in Istanbul this summer.
Penunjuk perasaan melarikan diri dari meriam air
semasa pertempuran dengan polis rusuhan 31 Mei 2013 semasa protes terhadap
perobohan di Taksim Gezi Park, di Taksim Square di Istanbul. (AFP Photo/Bulent
Kilic – think IN pictures @1WORLDCommunity)
Selepas Erdogan mengumumkan rancangan untuk
membangunkan semula taman, yang aman duduk dalam snowballed ke dalam protes
besar-besaran. Pertempuran berikutnya dengan pihak polis menarik perhatian
antarabangsa dan kutukan meluas.
Suruhanjaya Eropah sangat kritikal pengendalian
Erdogan satu demonstrasi dalam penilaian tahunan bidaan jangka panjang Turki
untuk menjadi ahli Kesatuan Eropah.
“Penggunaan kekerasan yang berlebihan oleh pihak
polis dan ketiadaan keseluruhan dialog semasa protes di Mei-Jun telah
menimbulkan kebimbangan yang serius,” kata Suruhanjaya Eropah. Laporan itu
menambah bahawa rusuhan awam “menekankan keperluan mendesak untuk pembaharuan
lanjut dan menggalakkan dialog di seluruh spektrum politik.”
Kerajaan Turki masih belum mengulas mengenai hasil
laporan itu, walaupun Erdogan sebelum ini telah ‘Chastised’ Suruhanjaya untuk
cuba untuk masuk campur dalam urusan dalaman kerajaan Turki.
Dasar luar pakar Barbara Slavin memberitahu RT
bahawa sikap berat tangan Erdogan untuk bantahan tak boleh balik difitnah imej
politiknya.
“Ini satu tamparan yang besar kepada beliau secara
peribadi - untuk imej beliau - dan juga untuk model Turki yang dia telah
menggembar-gemburkan di seluruh Timur Tengah sebagai sesuatu yang negara-negara
Arab perlu mencontohi,” kata Slavin. Beliau seterusnya berkata bahawa misinya
untuk mewujudkan “beberapa jenis presiden imperial” adalah sama-sama tidak dapat diterima oleh
orang-orang Turki yang beragama serta mereka yang sekular.
After Erdogan announced plans to redevelop the park,
a peaceful sit-in snowballed into mass protests. The subsequent clashes with
police drew international attention and widespread condemnation.
The European Commission was highly critical of
Erdogan’s handling of the demonstrations in its annual assessment of Turkey’s
long-term bid to become a member of the EU.
“The excessive use of force by police and the
overall absence of dialogue during the protests in May-June have raised serious
concerns,” the European Commission said. The report added that the civil unrest
“underlines the urgent need for further reforms and the promotion of dialogue
across the political spectrum.”
The Turkish government has yet to comment on the
findings of the report, although Erdogan has previously chastised the
Commission for attempting to meddle in internal Turkish affairs.
Foreign policy expert Barbara Slavin told RT that
Erdogan’s heavy-handed attitude to protests had irreversibly sullied his
political image.
“This a huge blow to him personally – to his image – and also to the Turkish model
which he has been touting around the Middle East as something that Arab
countries should emulate,” Slavin said.
She went on to say that his mission to create “some sort of imperial
presidency” was equally unacceptable to Turkish people who are religious as
well as those who are secular.
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