By Shah A Siddiqui
17th July 2016
I watched live on ARY news the unsuccessful military coup from the start to the arrival of President Tayyip Erdogan in Istanbul at the airport, where he addressed the large crowd. When the first ticker started on the TV and the breaking news about the Military coup flashed, it shocked me. Within a few hours the situation started turning against the rebellions and finally after the statement of Tayyip Erdogan appeared on news media that “the people of Turkey will face the armored tanks and army on the streets of Ankara and Istanbul” and another statement after a while appeared on the media” I will be among my people tomorrow morning.” After the news break in Turkey about the military coup and martial law, there was no mob on the street and it was speculation that the coup will accomplish with a successful end. Slowly the people of Turkey welcomed the call of President Erdogan and started pouring on the street of Ankara and Istanbul. The world saw that a man laid down in front of the military tank in support of his country’s democracy and his leader Tayyip Erdogan. I saw on TV that the mob was so enthusiastic and furious that compelled the armored trucks and military to go back to their barracks. The martyrs of a few hundreds of people are nothing to save the democracy and bury the military coup once for all. Today the world is praising the people of Turkey for their courageous action against the unsuccessful military takeover.
Mustafa Kamal Ataturk was the father of the Turk nation, but I would say that Tayyip Erdogan is the great leader and saver of the modern Turkey after Mustafa Ataturk. It would not be an exaggeration if I say that at this time he is the most powerful leader in Turkey. People criticize him harshly for some of his policies, but the other hand the masses love him too, as it was revealed after his last night stating that “the people will reply the army in the morning “His journey of progress started when he was elected the Mayor of Istanbul in 1994 and people feared that he will impose Islamic laws as he was affiliated and was follower and active member of the Islamist Welfare Party. Erdogan is a genius person and he understands the sentiments of the public & the essence of time. When he took over the charge as the Mayor of Istanbul, he became pragmatic in the office and he picked up the core issues and concerns of the people. The time he had sworn in as the Mayor, the situation was worst in health care, water, public transport, the environmental pollution and above all the economic was derailed in Istanbul besides the whole country. Erdogan as a true and honest representative of the people worked hard and during his Mayoral period, he fixed most of the issues. The transportation, healthcare, water shortage and basic problems got fixed and not only this, but he paid back the debt to Metropolitan Municipality and the top of that invested extra 4 billion dollars in the city. He built highways, bridges, viaduct, and the water shortage problem was solved by laying a hundred kilometers of new pipelines.
He controlled and took precautions to prevent the corruption. He became a shining star in the sky of Turkish politics and when he served the people and showed the governance he became a popular leader.
In 2001 he organized his own political party and in the election of 2002 he gained a landslide victory and captured two third seat, but due to ban by the Judiciary, he could not become a Prime Minister. Later, when the Election Board canceled the voting in Siirt and announced new election on January 9, 2003, Erdogan was permitted to participate in the election and this election was again a big win for him and elected Prime Minister of the country.
He is very brave & very courageous leader among Muslim countries, he is not scared to warn any country on the basis of Muslim issue and he did not compromise the ongoing issues in the Middle East or Europe. Turkey downgraded diplomatic ties with Israel and halted defense-related trade after the confirmation by the Israel government that the government of Israel will not apologize for the raid on the Mavi Marmara ship which had attempted to break Israel’s blockade of Gaza. Later on this open threat by Turkey, Israel had to bend down and released a statement that he wanted to stop the tension with Turkey. Erdogan loudly condemns Israel on the issue of Palestine and we did not notice that any other leader from the Middle East or Pakistan can support the Palestinians and condemn Israel.
Tayyip Erdogan has emerged as a new and energetic leader after the unsuccessful coup and he started a new life along with his cabinet members to take the country at another face of economic development. He was very confident when addressing the crowd at the airport, which proves that he will definitely take action against those culprits of the army and he clearly said that the time has come to ‘clean up’.
Tayyip Erdogan has clearly mentioned that Fatehullah Gulen has instigated this coup, who is sitting in Pennsylvania (USA) and he sounded out” Turkey can’t be ruled from Pennsylvania”. He requested the United States to arrest and extradite the cleric Fateh Ullah Gulen. Turkey is a major alliance of the United States in the region and lets us find out what action could be brought against the cleric Gulen.
The State Department has replied that if anything proves that Gulen was involved in the coup, then the United States will take action.
The unsuccessful coup in Turkey is also a great lesson for Pakistan and its governing party. Nawaz Sharif’s government should not live in any misunderstanding or any miscalculation that the public will support him or will come out like the Turkish people supported his President and Prime Minister and pushed the military tanks and armors back to their barracks and hundred got martyred.
Nawaz Sharif is NOT Tayyip Erdogan and he should read the writings on the wall. And the people of Turkey have faith in Tayyip Erdogan.
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