No, sorry but what I gave was a accurate abbreviation of his speech. My verbal comprehension is fairly good.
He explained the past role of the military in Turkiye.
Yes, indeed he explained the past role of the military but his tone and suggestion was in support of the military dictatorships and suggested that unlike anywhere else in Turkey the dictatorships helped nuture liberal democracy.
The military had no power to be succesful,he explained why.
He said, now under the Erdogan government the military has lost it power to launch coups as Erdogan had purged the military. In addition he has set up his own police force and his own 'army within the army'.
In summary what he is saying is military rule traditionally in Turkey was benign. On every occasion the miltary went back to barracks leaving a better dispensation behind them with a slow evolution toward a liberal democracy taking place.
On the contrary he is saying Erdogan has used the power of votes to set up a authoritarian regime. He also makes comparisons between Erdogan and Hitler. He then is suggesting that he has divided society along secular/conservative, Sunni/Alevi, Kurd/Turk divides and risks tearing Turkey apart.
Essentially the guy looks back starry eyed to the days when the elite (less than 10%) of the highly educated Turks living primarily in large urban centres on the western seaboard of Anatolia in tandem with the secular military elite ruled rest of the ignorant mass of Turkish rural peasantry living in the huge central plateux of the Anatolian Turkey but then lost that power to the present order post 2000.
Now this dispicable , scheming but charasmatic authoritarian creature called Erdogan has come along and harvested the votes of all those ignorant peasants who have now moved in mass numbers into the urban centres of Turkey. He has built massive new housing estates and given them keys and in doing so reduced slums at the same time bought their votes.
I am not a expert on Turkish politics and am rather neutral to the going ons inside Turkey but this guy was just sheding tears and crying that the coup last year failed. Now that it has failed there is nothing in the way of the new 'Sultan' of Turkey ruling by illegal means till 1929.
This how I understood the long speach by this guy. This was predictable given that his audience was American and like I said he was playing to the American gallery.
*Oh also that Turkey has slid into a Islamic hell hole with women being pushed into waering Hijabs and walking behind their husbands. Female rights have been taken away and Turkey is now fast approaching Saudia Arabia - he showed this stupd chart where he had used various metrics to chart out his case. He also went on to explain that the next survey coming out in 2019 will be even worse. Frankly no offense to you guy's I was not impressed by his his intelligence or his ability to articulate.
And if I was to sum it up with one word this guy's long ramble I would uses the word 'sour grapes' and visualize it thus -