Each time the, what is now called Islamist, tried to take over Turkey for their own aims, the Turkish Military stepped in and stopped it. It preseved stability in a country with citizens of multiple religions.
Obama and Hillary over the past 8 years have used Erdogan to support the overthrow of Syria. Strongest visible point appeared in our news with the Benghazi disaster. (you know, the one that was "started by an internet video? /sarcasm)
But it is clear that Turkey was involved in running weapons into hands of Syrian rebels (i.e. terrorists, Nusera al Qaeda and ISIS). That failed to overthrow Assad.
Obama and Erdogan were best of friends. Hillary ran with the ball. And it failed.
On July 15, 2016 there was an attempted coup in Turkey. Following the coup attempt he purged the Turkish military. I've read reports describing a mass beheading of military on a large bridge. I'm told there is a video showing it. I do not know the number executed but it was a large number. Erdogan has arrested larger numbers of citizens and journalists, taken over broadcast news media companys (effectively nationalizing them in Turkey) and that effort is expanding. There are reports that the police now have been given an arrest list of close to 18,000 social media users for their comments.
Recently the support of ISIS and Nusera have backfired on Erdogan. In early January 2017 there was a major terrorist attack in Istanbul.
This instability along with the resulting currency issue is affecting the citizens ability to live normal lives. And many citizens live in fear of being arrested by this Islamist (Erdogan).
This is the point of relevance of this article to the situation, and the reason the financial crisis is important when we consider this NATO member, Turkey.
There are a number of embedded supporting links in the article. Please go to the link and read the entire article. It was hard to excerpt it effectively.
Remember we have a huge air base in Incerlik Turkey, where nukes are stored.
So Turkey will say to Europe “help us or we’ll send you 10 million more refugees”.And Europe will help them (to the tune of many,many billions) and Turkey will send them anyway!
The entire Muslim region from North Africa to the Mideast despite enormous oil wealth is chaotic, violent and an economic disaster. It simply underscores the harsh reality that Islamic culture is simply not compatible with the values, practices and institutions that constitute modernity. Take Libya as an example. Over $10 trillion dollars worth of oil have been extracted and sold in a country of fewer than 6 million people. They have very little to show for it. The reality is that the people who can are migrating toward the lands formerly known as Christendom because they know they will live better.
Well, that often happens when you lose a war and someone cuts off your stolen oil revenue.
The Turkish Lira has always been problematic, probably due to how poorly Turkey is run. When I was in Aviano in 1996 the Lira was essentially Monopoly money. Their economy was in hyper-inflation and their currency near free fall status.
To begin with, Turkey should be thrown out of NATO.
Turkey refused to allow us to use our bases there for the first gulf war and it cost us lives.
Turkey has turned its back on secularism and under Erdogan and has become a dictator.
Erdogan uses NATO as a threat cause he knows the one for all and all for one dictate.