Posted on 07/20/2016 9:41:03 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
Recep Tayyip Erdogan could soon become the most powerful Turkish leader since Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, who founded modern Turkey, and arguably the most powerful leader “since the collapse of the Ottoman Empire” in 1923, Soner Cagaptay told me.
Cagaptay told me this on Sunday, just two days after roaring fighter jets, rolling tanks, and rebel helicopters had descended on Ankara, Istanbul, and the Turkish Riviera in an attempt to overthrow the Turkish president—two days after the insurrectionists had forced a television newscaster to read their manifesto on air, while Erdogan was reduced to FaceTiming with a TV anchor from an undisclosed location, flickering in and out of view as the anchor received incoming calls. How, between Friday and Sunday, had the itty-bitty man on the iPhone screen morphed into the second coming of Ataturk? Why did FaceTime triumph over tanks? And what does that tell us about the nature of Erdogan’s power, and how he might wield it after squashing last weekend’s coup?
Cagaptay, an expert on Turkey at the Washington Institute, has been warning for months of Turkey’s coming crackup. In a 2015 article for The Atlantic, he noted that Erdogan’s policies and power grabs in recent years had produced a toxic mix of political polarization, widespread opposition from the minority Kurdish population, and blowback from the Syrian Civil War, including attacks by ISIS and Kurdish militants. It was up to Erdogan, he wrote, to “tamp down tensions before they explode.”
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Tyranny 101, so of course Obama approves as he did the Arab Spring.
The world would have been less mental or in trouble and cleaner with an Irish Spring.
The one curious thing out of today in Turkey is that around 15,000 college professors/instructors were let go.
Normally, classes would start up in eight weeks for the fall semester. Something says to me that it’ll be impossible to conduct business as usual in Turkey if you were a college student.
As for the professors? I suspect that once the smoke clears....Germany will grin and offer up posts to every single one of them and bring them to teach in Germany. Erdogan will never get them back, and a bunch of students will decide to leave Turkey for Germany by next spring. Maybe this is all in Erdogan’s master plan, but it would really start to create a brain-drain within Turkey.
They let go the profs because of suspected ties to Gulen... Gulen’s schools are likely where they are from.
..., an expert on the US.. at the Ankara Institute, has been warning for months of the U.S.’s coming crackup. In a 2015 article for The Black Sea, he noted that Obama’s policies and power grabs in recent years had produced a toxic mix of political polarization, widespread opposition from the minority constitutionalist population, and blowback from the Iraq War, including attacks by ISIS and BLM communists and Nation of Islam militants. It was up to Obama, he wrote, to “tamp down tensions before they explode.”
I heard that 14 Turkish warships are “missing”??
Education in Iran
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The 1979 revolution continued the country’s emphasis on education with the new government putting its own stamp on the process. The most important change was the Islamization of the education system. All students were segregated by sex. In 1980, the Cultural Revolution Committee was formed to oversee the institution of Islamic values in education. An arm of the committee, the Center for Textbooks (composed mainly of clerics), produced 3,000 new college-level textbooks reflecting Islamic views by 1983.[7] Teaching materials based on Islam were introduced into the primary grades within six months of the revolution.
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The country’s 16 universities were closed after the 1979 revolution and were then reopened gradually between 1982 and 1983 under Islamic supervision.
While the universities were closed, the Cultural Revolution Committee investigated professors and teachers and dismissed those who were believers in Marxism, liberalism, and other “imperialistic” ideologies. The universities reopened with Islamic curricula.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_Iran
The question is, does he want to rule the Arabs (which would be on the whole a good thing, in my view), or does he want to reverse the defeat at the gates of Vienna, using the EU and NATO as his tools?
We just have to wait to see.
With this admin im not sure what side we are on....
Turkey bans academics from foreign travel
July 20, 2016 | Reuters
Erdogen’s final agenda is undoubtedly genocide of his enemies, both real and imagined. Ask any Armenian what the Turks are capable of.
“Erdogen’s final agenda is undoubtedly genocide of his enemies, both real and imagined. Ask any Armenian what the Turks are capable of.”
That haunting photo of the crucified Armenian girls illustrates everything anyone needs to know about Turkey. The century and names have changed - their nature hasn’t.
The main reason to purge all those teachers, is to replace them with Wahabbis (adherents of the Hanbali Fiqh).
Just because Erdogan is purging them, does not mean that they are secular. It is more likely that they are Gulenists, who follow the traditional islamic school of thought of the Ottoman Empire - the Hanafi school of jurisprudence (Figh).
Gulenists are also islamists, with a long term subversive agenda - Germany would not be well served by importing a bunch of them.
I’ve never seen that picture before. Absolutely horrible and sickening! That’s muslims for you.
It is a visual requiem for every person murdered by Moslems in the past one thousand, four hundred years.
Moreover, the demographics worked against secularism. The Islamic peasants outbred the cosmopolitan Turks who were my colleagues at the university. The result was the election of Erdogan in what appears to have been an honest election.
Very interesting comment. Thx for that.
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