Posted on 03/21/2017 5:35:56 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
If you examine Erdogan’s past, it is no surprise that he is an Islamist. Erdogan is the product of a Turkish imam-hatip school. These are Islamic religious schools that aren’t quite the “madrassas” we’ve heard so much about since 9/11, but they are much like them. The imam-hatip schools reserve 30 percent of their students’ time for religious instruction. They teach Sunni Islamic law — Sharia law — as the exclusive legitimate source of authority. Those schools teach the political ideology we refer to as radical Islam.
Erdogan repeatedly has made clear his allegiance to radical Islam again and again throughout his presidency. He became prime minister in 2002 and has ruled the country ever since. His presidency, which began in 2014, is about to be converted into a pseudo-caliphate by a constitutional referendum that will be voted on next month.
Since Ataturk, the Turkish army has had the duty of maintaining the secularism of the Turkish state. It has had its successes and failures, but as Ataturk recognized, Turkey cannot be an Islamic state and a Western ally. For decades, many (if not most) Turkish officers have been trained in the U.S. and England and have been assigned to officer exchange programs that enabled them to serve with American forces.
From Korea to Afghanistan, Turkish troops have been a strong presence in NATO deployments. Gradually, since 2002, Erdogan has been weeding out non-Islamists from the Turkish armed forces. Graduates of the imam-hatip schools weren’t permitted to become officers in the Turkish army, but that may soon change. Erdogan has said those schools are “the hope of Turkey and the entire Muslim nation.”
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This is an issue.
I do not believe that Erdogan or Turkey threaten NATO.
Erdogan threatens the stability of Turkey and his neighbors.
I’m not even sure Erdogan is mentally stable. (common local problem, he is an Islamist)
Or, the officers will kill Erdogan and be done with it
Even more problematic are the nukes at Incirlik that we’ve given them access to.
Actually, Caliph Uthmann had a Mein Kampf of his own and burned the original copies of the Koran because of his Suni despise for Shias who found an abomination to revere a political figure.
Of course, in the end, the Koran itself allowed this to happen.
He's been holding off sending all those "immigrants" to Europe, in exchange for 3-billion Euro and admission to the EU. After his last spat with Germany , the EU is definitely out. Watch for him to flood Europe with those pent up people. To him, IMO, the loss of 3-billion is best served cold - like revenge.
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