How it was developed the political crisis in Turkey

The officers’ caste of the armed forces in Turkey historically is a political party-state, overlapped with power and business deals of all the bourgeois gangs, and has the generals under NATO’s discipline. This military party provided stability and ultimately was the guarantee (with stances and military coup) of the capitalist dominance and the place of Turkey since the end of World War Two as a base of operations of NATO to control the oil and gas trade that flows from Middle East through that country. Turkey, with NATO nuclear warheads, played a strategic role in Yalta as gendarme of the oil pipes on behalf of the imperialist oil companies.
This place of Turkey in the world enters in deep crisis with the financial breakdown and the crisis of its debt from 1997 to 2001, in connection with Wall Street, when the stock markets fell due to the bankruptcy of all the companies of the so-called “new technologies”. In 2001, when Clinton left and Bush came, the Turkish bourgeoisie found their place out of the crisis placing Turkey as a true land aircraft carrier of NATO for the invasions to Afghanistan and Iraq and the US adventures in the whole Middle East.

Turkey came out of its crisis developing a powerful war industry, supported in the military technology of NATO, promoting strong investments in that industry made by the state and its financial capital, in association with Wall Street big bank. This way, Turkey (defined as a sub-imperialism of Wall Street and overlapped with Bundesbank due to the exports and imports) is today the sixth exporter of weapons of the world, including military high technology, behind USA, Russia, France, China and England.
The way out of the crisis was also, as a derivative from its military industry, to the civil production branch of electronics, with cell phones as Turkcell and it’s leader in television producing. Also, it is a big assembler in the auto industry, electrical appliances, textiles and it distributes all those goods in the Middle East and Eurasia. This is also what the crisis of this sub-imperialism is about, as it cannot go militarily and directly in the route of its trading and investments.
Turkey got benefits –since 2001/2003- from the passing of oil pipes and gas pipes through its land, since the oil barrel was at 130/140 dollars, which left in the state treasury and in the banks several funds and new incomes, while it developed a new consumption industry for the domestic market of food, cars, and so on, which expanded broadly.

This “boom” of Turkey, linked to the war and the US adventures in Maghreb and Middle East, created a new political and social phenomenon in Turkish life, a new bourgeois fraction that gets a lot of influence: Erdogan’s gang and his party, the AKP (“Justice and Development Party).

During these last years, this party got a strong social base in the rich peasantry and a new middle class. It developed an arrogant brutal repressive shock forces against the masses, such its police, the secret service and the state terrorists gangs, dedicated to persecute the workers organization and strike hard against the Kurdish nation, even making secret services that control the military party, whose officers caste is now purged and controlled by Erdogan’s gang.
This gang of Erdogan displaced the old fractions of the bourgeoisie that disputed business deals against him. Among the displaced, you could find Fethullah Gulen, Alevis, (the Alawite bourgeoisie of Bashar Al Assad) and also the officers of the military party, which was excluded from the very business deals of the war industry. This gang also displaced the fractions that disputed commissions for the passing of the oil and gas pipes. He took the export incomes in order to build a powerful importer engine connected to Europe, mainly to Germany, from which it imports machine tools for the military industry and the consumption goods.
The “moderated islamic” character of Erdogan’s party is just an expression of a bourgeois fraction that looks to the east to development of trading goods and products, and make sure the oil flows from the Muslim countries through Turkey. At the same time, this fraction looks at Europe, fighting to enter into the EU, since it needs Euro for its imports. Meanwhile, it is still tied to USA with NATO and the finance capital. This situation ended up in the development of a “bi-front” financial capital, that is to say, linked to Germany and USA.

Today, at the brink of the end of the growth cycle of the last decade, this financial capital is “locked” inside the national borders of the Turkish state and needs influence spheres.