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Again the Muslim People Lost the Referendum!

News:

The results of the referendum for the change of 18 amendments have come. News Agencies

Comment:

The referendum results anticipated for months have come. According to it 51.4% Yes's and 48.6% No's have come out of the ballot. According to these results "the American Presidential System" replaced the "the English Parliamentarian System" in Turkey. No doubt this referendum was the most important election after the 29 October 1923 Republican system. The thing that makes this so important is that the American Presidential System has been enacted and the English Parliamentarian System has been abolished. With this result the English have lost another important political trench after they lost the army, jurisdiction and police. Also it looks like this result does not please the government. Because the government expected to pass the psychological border as in 55% especially that the two great cities, Ankara and Istanbul, voted No made the government mad. Since 2002 AKP has been able to win these two cities in all the elections until today.

The first analyses to the referendum results; while the government says that this is a great victory, CHP has stated that the elections are rigged and that actually the results were in favour of "No". As for the protests coming from abroad, chief of who are AGIT and some European countries have made some amount of statements. Naturally the result that came from the ballot has angered Europe. Because chiefly England and the other European countries have never been pleased of this result. They are aware of that Turkey is slipping from their hands and that it gets closer to America.

Also it has been a contentious campaign  between the representative of the "YES" front AKP and the representative of the "NO" front CHP. While AKP utilises all capabilities of the state in order to please America, CHP also has shown great passion and afford to please England. Both sides has turned this referendum to a life and death situation. Most probably while America will be pleased with AKP with the result that came from the ballot- apparently, US President Trump has called Erdoğan and congratulated him for his success- the English are very displeased because of the incompetence of CHP. But despite the displeasure of the English CHP has managed to win a serious amount of votes in the referendum. Of course the English will not bow to or be content with, this result. They may take some steps to destabilise the government. The English have enough tricks up their sleeves to play yet. They may make some manipulations to the economy, which the people care the most, in order to destabilise. Or they may play their terrorism card in order to instigate fear and insecurity among people. They probably will want to play all their political cards until 2019 presidency and parliament elections. They will field all their strength in order to pressure Turkey, which its dependency to America has increased with this result. In other words both imperialist Kuffar's intrigue will continue. One will do everything in their power try to find a place for itself the other imperialist Kafir America will try to protect its interest.

But like always Muslims will be the ones that will be hurt from these political conflict. Unislamic laws that displeasure our Lord will continue to be implemented. The law maker will again be men. The idea of "Freedoms" which is rebellious according to Islam will continue to exist. Chiefly America then the English, the Russians, the Jewish existence and other imperialist states will again continue to massacre the Muslims. This new system also will utilise everything it has in order to prevent the Khilafah "Caliphate" rising to power. The Presidential system will also, like the Parliamentarian system, no be able to protect the honour, lives and property of the Muslims. Because the most important thing for the imperialist Kuffar is their own interests and systems. They do not value anything but these interests and systems. They will do anything to protect these interests. But what is more important than all of this is that no doubt that the malady called "democracy" will continue to exist. In other words even though a system change happened the source of all this instability the "Secular Democratic System" still is its place. Even this is enough to be a serious loss for the Muslims.

So nothing has changed for the Muslims with the arrival of the Presidential System. "Business as usual" like in every election here to the losers of it are the Muslims.

Written for the Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir by
Yılmaz Çelik