do not know if Turkey is now closer or farther away in a Europe that still seems divided between those who want that country because of human rights and who does not want it because Islam.
The "package" of the referendum seems to be well packaged, but I'm afraid I do not deny that it contains more than a smokescreen: more democracy, women's rights, privacy, and so on.
I'll be militarist and undemocratic, but I jumped for joy when I make a few, and not just because of the risk of losing the only Muslim majority country to ally Israel.
That country was there to tell us that the "secularism" will also be born with Christianity but is a universal tool available to humanity and that too in a country with a majority Muslim theocracy is not a destiny. If Turkey, with all his quarrels, had a political, economic and cultural sites, is because it has developed its own peculiar way - not always nice but effective - to take the priests out of the way. It will be very trenchant and argued, but that's what I think.
Also I can not help but wonder if the trend - almost everywhere (and certainly in Italy) to undermine the principle of separation of powers in the name of democracy does not open to a future of populist democracy, based not on complex systems of checks and balances as a basis for sound constitutions but - like many popular dictatorships - including fascism - the charisma of the leader and the control of the media. Adieu
Ataturk, and what is serious: adieu Montesquieu.
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