Posted on 03/24/2016 5:57:13 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The situation in Turkey is bad and getting worse.
It’s not just the deterioration in security amidst a wave of terrorism. Public debt might be stable, but private debt is out of control, the tourism sector is in free-fall and the decline in the currency has impacted every citizen’s buying power.
There is a broad sense, election results notwithstanding, that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is out of control. He is imprisoning opponents, seizing newspapers left and right and building palaces at the rate of a mad sultan or aspiring caliph. In recent weeks, he has once again threatened to dissolve the constitutional court.
Corruption is rife. His son Bilal reportedly fled Italy on a forged Saudi diplomatic passport as the Italian police closed in on him in an alleged money laundering scandal.
His outbursts are raising eyebrows both in Turkey and abroad. Even members of his ruling party whisper about his increasing paranoia which, according to some Turkish officials, has gotten so bad that he seeks to install anti-aircraft missiles at his palace to prevent airborne men-in-black from targeting him in a snatch-and-grab operation.
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They better hurry and GET IT OVER WITH then...this animal just gets stronger by the day.
Get er done.
I know someone who would be happy to help. If he isn’t already.
AEI is an impressive organization.
https://www.aei.org/publication/could-there-be-a-coup-in-turkey/
“Should a new leadership engage sincerely with Turkey’s Kurds, Kurds might come onboard.”
Was just reading this morning about the Kurds plans for “self-governing.”
http://ekurd.net/kurds-self-rule-syrian-kurdistan-2016-03-24
“The notion of a federal system has been floated by Philip Gordon and James Dobbins, former officials in the Obama administration, and has been discussed not only among the Kurds but also in Washington as a potential solution for Syria, at least until a longer-term political solution is agreed to. Russia has also endorsed the concept.”
Roast Turkey with no leftovers, would make a wonderful Easter supper!
The experiment of a secular Islamic state has failed in Turkey, as I expect it will in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Bangladesh. Any time there are any political shortcomings in places like that, the political alternative is Islam.
I believe that is somewhat old news as there was a story some weeks ago that the Kurds declared a federal area already. Was in a Syrian newspaper maybe.
I believe that is somewhat old news as there was a story some weeks ago that the Kurds declared a federal area already. Was in a Syrian newspaper maybe.
If not, the Russkies will kick the shi’ite out of him and his minions..
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