According to the AKP, more than half of Turks are enemies of their own country.

Turkey's Crackdown on Turkish 'Enemies of Turkey'

by Burak Bekdil

In a recent speech, the deputy chairman of the party that rules Turkey claimed that the opponents of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) were "enemies of Turkey."

This statistic means there are over 40 million Turkish enemies of Turkey living in Turkey.

In a more recent speech, the AKP's parliamentary group chairman, Mustafa Elitas, claimed that those Turks who opposed the government's new security bill, which observers fear would further curb civil liberties, were "terrorists and traitors."

That claim found a response in the media. If accusing millions of people of being terrorists and traitors is a right, Hurriyet columnist Mehmet Yilmaz reasoned, "Then, Mr. Elitas, I return your words to you. He who defends this bill is a terrorist and a traitor!"

Once again, according to the AKP's official narrative, more than half of Turks are enemies of their own country, terrorists and traitors.

One of those terrorists/traitors/enemies is the psychiatrist Ahmet Koyuncu, a renowned psychiatrist with several published articles in international journals, six academic books, and one novel. Last year, under a pseudonym, Koyuncuposted an article about Turkey's then Prime Minister, "Recep Tayyip Erdogan is Turkey's average. Recep Tayyip Erdogan is Turkey." In his article, Koyuncu claimed that Erdogan's religiosity is the religiosity of the average Turk; and that his vindictiveness is the vindictiveness of the average Turk.

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