Bangladesh, April 10 -- The term "deep state" which is being bandied about a lot recently is of Turkish origin. It comes from the term "derin devlet" which means 'deep state' in that language. It grew after the establishment of republican political rule replacing the Ottoman empire in the early 1920s.

In reality, this rule of President Kemal Ataturk -after whom our local Banani has an avenue named, in case you are wondering who he is, was the "dad" of modern Turkey.

In his time, power in reality belonged to a small group of people largely made up of a "network of military, intelligence, and bureaucratic elements operating independently of elected officials to maintain a particular ideological or political status quo." People in front w...