A Nuclear-Armed Caliphate? (Turkey)

crisismagazine.com ^ | William Kilpatrick

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Much has been made of the Islamic State’s claim to the caliphate. But the Islamic State is fast losing ground in Syria and Iraq, and without a territorial claim, its claim to the caliphate is a shaky one. According to some sources, ISIS has already been preparing its followers for the fall of the caliphate.

Meanwhile, an Islamist power with a much better claim to the caliphate has been gathering strength. Whether the failed coup in Turkey was the real thing or whether it was staged, as some have claimed, President Erdogan’s hold over the Turkish nation has been immeasurably strengthened. As a result, he is now one giant step closer to doing what, some say, he has always wanted to do—namely, to re-establish the caliphate.

The last time the Muslim world had a caliphate, it was centered in Constantinople. The Turkish sultan (who was also the caliph) was the head of the Ottoman Empire—an empire that controlled far more territory than ISIS does or is ever likely to. Then in 1923, following the disarray left by the First World War, a secular government under the leadership of Kemal Ataturk came to power in Turkey and abolished the caliphate soon after.

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In Turkey, also, it was the military that acted as the guardian of the secular state. And so it remained until the election of President Recep Erdogan in 2002. Even then, Erdogan moved slowly in his efforts to re-Islamize Turkey. He gradually removed top military officers and replaced them with his own men; and he did the same with the police, the judiciary, and other key institutions.

[polymuser]

Yes. Glass Lake sounds appropriate.

[RoosterRedux]

It matters not that those nukes in Turkey belong to us or the Turks . It only matters who is guarding them , gives those orders to guard them and that the Turks never get their hands on them

We have a very small force at Incirlik and Turkey has the second largest army in NATO. Turkey could overrun our troops in no time and take control of the nuclear weapons.

In fact, Turkey gave the order and the base was immediately on lock-down (i.e. no flights in, no flights out and no commercial power).

Turkey has until January 20, 2017 to take action. After that, President Trump will no longer tolerate this kind of behavior from Erdogan.

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Excellent suggestion.

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The Antichrist will be Assyrian according to the Bible.

Some descriptive verses of the AC.

Isa 10:24

Isa 14:25

Isa 23:13

Isa 30:31

Isa 31:8

Isa 52:4 is a type and shadow of the end days by using the oppression of the Jews in Egypt as an example. Joseph was worshiped in Egypt as a shadow of Christ, but Egypt "forgot" Joseph during the rein of Pharaoh from Assyria, and put them in chains.

Mic 5:5-6

Zech 11:17 gives a physical description.

Dan 8:23-25 more description.

Dan 11:37-45 says he doesn't like women, honors armies as power, probably controls the wealth in the ME.

Many watch carefully the progress of evil in the ME, but having Turkey turn to the next caliphate with nukes would mean a quantum leap time wise for the Tribulation. 30-50 k ISIS for 50-70 million ISIS overnight would leap years into the future in a very short time.

[RoosterRedux]

As you probably know, ancient Assyria is not the same as today's Syria.

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Yes, I wanted to show that the AC could be from Turkey, Syria, or N Iraq.