“Old Turkey” is not simply a concept cited by AKP ideologues when marketing their “new Turkey” paradigms. There was truly a Turkey long in the past. “Old Turkey” was the Turkey of the Kemalist Republic. "New Turkey" is the AKP’s Turkey.
The social explosion on May 31 at Taksim, the most prominent city center of the country, gave birth to a new Turkey, or perhaps better to say, “the newest Turkey” from the AKP’s Turkey.