Brief n. 36/August 2021 Turkey-Tunisia A Battle of Power Vacuum and Political Pragmatism

Using the alibi of defending the country from the danger of the “Green Peril” (Islamism), then they have been provoking the a-Nahdha party’s leader to the fatal mistake. [...] Tunisia did come along in light of the challenges that the country and the people to some extent have been facing in the last ten years of change and rupture that millions of Tunisians have proudly took the streets, and later have been voting for “new” Tunisia and total rupture with the old system. [...] Even though, there is a moment of doubt about the style of governance and the post-Ben Ali mult-partism lack of experience and trust; firstly among the legitimate new Tunisia political parties and elite, secondly, between the people and the politicians because of the latter could not deliver, notably the president who was elected with a comfortable majority that gave him a legitimate and a solid p. [...] A model that pro-islamist and anti-French values analysts in the region are in favoring, despite the harsh and tough resistance from liberal/secular movements in Arab countries and Tunisia is one of them, in this stance, Tunisia’s former president Lahbib Bourguiba was considered by the Arab secularists: the evolutive process that was led by President Erdogan in his fight with the army and the secu. [...] Tunisia got trapped between two ways of thinking, a dilemma that has been striking the so-called Arab “secular” states, the deep division between the elite and the masses on one hand, and the radical secularists and the traditionalists on the other.