The December 31, 2015, returning from a trip to Saudi Arabia, to a question about the presidential system he dreams to establish in its favor, the President Erdogan reportedly said “” In a unitary system [like Turkey] a presidential system may well exist. We have examples in the world and also examples in history. You will see the example in Hitler’s Germany. “And the press is quick to accuse him of taking the Führer as a model, overwhelming him with absolute power suspicion, if not of Nazism. It is appropriate here to wash this firm supporter of the Ottoman Empire from malicious suspicion by analyzing its sincere and authentic thought in the light of proven and indisputable historical facts.
Indeed, a presidential regime has actually existed in Nazi Germany, January 30, 1933 to August 2, 1934, date of the death of President title, Marshal Paul von Hindenburg. It is through him, current President, Hitler was appointed chancellor, and only that, under the Constitution of Weimar. From January 33 to August 34, Hitler was therefore never president (because there already before) and Mr Erdogan, a recognized expert in the period from 1900 to the present, could not omit this fact known to all and s assimilate unduly Hitler. That is established.
But after 1934? we objected. After the death of Hindenburg, Hitler did he not been president? Nay! The day of the death of Hindenburg, Hitler made the Reichstag vote by deleting the office of President it replaces by “Führer und reichskanztler”, that is to say “guide and Reich Chancellor” title he held until his death. Hence it is easy to assert that Hitler never wore the title of President and that, therefore, the system he established after the death of Hindenburg was not a presidential system, but Simple autocracy. President Erdogan, he should emphasize again the infallible culture, could not of course ignore this “detail of history” and therefore could not refer to the period of autocratic Hitler after 1934 when he evoked the Nazi presidential system he wants to emulate.
What then thought our dear Reccep Tayyip speaking of presidential system under Hitler? It is now clear. He just thought of the period of a year and a half (January 1933-March 1934), the only one where a presidential system still existed, with Chancellor Hitler. Imagining president in a Nazi context, therefore saw the Hindenburg position, the only president title (with Davutoglu in the role of Chancellor Adolf?). But another point out, less than two months after its accession to the Chancellery, March 23, 1933, Hitler did vote full powers by the Reichstag and Hindenburg, the president, is reduced to a puppet state for year left to live. Other details as the expert in what historical truths Erdogan can have obliterated.
Thus, one can easily conclude that in wanting to be president of Turkey in a similar framework to that of Nazi presidential system, the Ankara Conducator has no dream to be another Hindenburg, that is, -dire a powerless puppet obeying the orders of an all-powerful Chancellor, for a very limited period of one short year. No big deal. Then he probably will retire or he will end up like the old marshal, simply. And that is the man, so humble, so modest, so eager to erase from politics, and knows all the details of modern history at the fingertips of wanting to inspire Hitler and wanting to establish in Turkey a Nazi! All these slanders, indeed, come from the Kurds. Because they keep repeating that after his triumphant election in eastern Anatolia, Erdogan made Führer. Gossips!
René Dzagoyan