The Parliamentarist Discourse and Turkey’s Failed Coup d'état

The failure of the recent coup attempt in Turkey and its comparison with the successful coup d'état staged by the Egyptian military can teach good lessons to political leaders in Ankara and across region. Perhaps the most important lesson of this coup attempt was that if a society chooses for parliamentary methods in order to pursue its goals, violent and non-civil actions would never succeed in that society. On the opposite, if following the coup attempt, the leaders of Turkey choose to jeopardize political and social freedoms more than before, the possibility of weakening of the parliamentary discourse in Turkey and across region and, as a result, resurgence of violent political and ethnic actions cannot be totally ruled out.