Ex-soccer player's resignation a turning point for the AKP
The resignation of Istanbul Deputy Hakan Sukur, one of Turkey’s all-time best strikers and a Gulenist, from the AKP seems to have come right in time for the all-out war between the government and Gulen movement.
One does not quite feel it yet in Turkey thanks to the whirlwind that has taken over the political scene of late, but what is supposed to be a laid-back time of retrospection as we prepare to enter a new year is upon us.
So today as I give you my thousand words on what has been going on in this rollercoaster of a country, I will ask you to look back in time with a couple of old videos.
The first is a sports clip that I first came upon Dec. 12 on The Guardian’s TalkingSport blog.
There he was, Hakan Sukur, the all-time top scorer of the Turkish soccer league, shown scoring 100 of the 383 goals of his club career with rhythmic beats of hip-hop music in the background.
