{"id":874,"date":"2006-12-16T16:56:29","date_gmt":"2006-12-16T15:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/ijwp\/mt.php\/2006\/12\/16\/zeyno_baran_fabricating_exclusivity"},"modified":"2025-10-10T18:02:05","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T17:02:05","slug":"zeyno_baran_fabricating_exclusivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2006\/12\/16\/zeyno_baran_fabricating_exclusivity","title":{"rendered":"Zeyno Baran &#8216;fabricating exclusivity&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#39;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/16127716\/site\/newsweek\/\">a letter in this week&#39;s <em>Newsweek<\/em><\/a> refuting the claim by Zeyno Baran in last week&#39;s edition that there is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/15894450\/site\/newsweek\/\">50-50 likelihood<\/a> of a coup in Turkey in the coming year (see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2006\/12\/02\/zeyno_baran_new_treason_threat\">this post<\/a>).  The letter is from parliamentarian Egemen Bagis and accuses Baran of &quot;profusely fabricating exclusivity&quot; in alleging that a Turkish general confided their opinions of the Refah government in her; rather, the comments were made by the then chief of staff, Ismail Hakki Karadayi, in the Turkish newspaper <em>Sabah<\/em> in 1996, and repeated in several interviews.  Mr Bagis claims that his party are &quot;a democratically mandated, conservative, center-right political party&quot; and predicts that they will win the next elections and keep the country on a &quot;European Union path toward democracy, accountability, secularism, the rule of law and free markets&quot;.  He also repeats some of Baran&#39;s earlier words which indicate that she has changed her opinion of Turkish military treason since:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nLet&#39;s do a favor to this doomsayer and repeat some of her 1997 prophecy: &quot;The idea that the military will quickly tidy things up, restore civilian rule, and preserve the march toward democracy is false. Even shutting down the [ruling party] would not reduce its considerable electoral support &#8230; A stable, democratic Turkey is crucial for U.S. foreign policy objectives, including peace in the Middle East and stability in both the Caucasus and the Aegean.&quot;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#39;s a letter in this week&#39;s Newsweek refuting the claim by Zeyno Baran in last week&#39;s edition that there is a 50-50 likelihood of a coup in Turkey in the coming year (see this&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[33,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-muslim_world","category-zeyno_baran"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p17bgV-e6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=874"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42186,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874\/revisions\/42186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}