Posted on 07/26/2016 1:31:04 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
The Turkish leader is attempting to get a tactical advantage over the US and EU, playing the hero for his domestic audience and to get his hands on Fethullah Gulen, political scientist from the Helwan University in Cairo, Dr. Maged Botros, told RT.
Turkey has banned all academics from leaving the country as the crackdown following the failed coup intensifies.
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Many Western leaders have called for "restraint and moderation" after Erdogan began his crackdown. The US Secretary of Defense has pledged allegiance to Ankara when asked whether Turkey's NATO membership could be affected by the recent turn of events.
RT: Why won't Ashton Carter condemn what's going in on in Turkey now?
Dr. Maged Botros: Well, actually if you have a simple political analysis, the analysis states that Erdogan wants to revive the Ottoman Empire. He wants to be an original power. So, internally he needs to have a very tight grip on the country, on the state, on the branches of government. So, what he did – he gives bait to some generals to start the coup. The coup failed of course with the help of the US. Now Erdogan is trying to have some extortion on the US like playing the hero for internal gains. So, he is trying to be a hero in front of his people by confronting the US and having some sort of conflict, confronting a superpower. So, this is a tactical thing to hand in Fethullah Gulen, his main rival and opposition figure-head. As a matter of fact, as a member of NATO, he cannot have or sacrifice his long-lasting strategic position in NATO. So, this is a tactical move, just to extort the US to get his hands on Gulen.
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It seems to me that the United States and Russia would have a common interest in taking this jay-bird out.
Turkey is full on Islamist now.
All vestiages of the Ataturk secular state are being swept away.
he’s a solid source turd if you ask me
Erdogan needs some internal stability to fully exploit this situation, including fianancially. He is surrounded by zealots that he knows will never be satisfied, whatever he does it will never be enough. He needs to refocus that aggression outwardly on a straw man or scapegoat. The more impossible the struggle the better. And, if need be, he’ll feed the revolutionaries to the guns.
Iran almost immediately went to war with Iraq after the revolution, BECAUSE they needed to. They marshaled all the extreme radical would be malcontents to the front line, sent them in waves to their death and had them clear mine fields by marching through them.
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