Posted on 03/24/2025 3:58:10 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The man who took Turkey from a secular nation to an Islamist one may finally have driven his people to take extreme measures against him.
Last week, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Turkey’s Islamist president, arrested a political rival. That sparked several days of protest, and, today, it’s seemingly culminated with protestors invading the presidential palace. The big question is whether this ends with a brutal response or the end of Erdoğan’s reign. Obviously, I have no answer to that question, but I can provide a little, very superficial background to help make some sense of what’s happening in Turkey today.
Today’s Turkey is the remnant of the once formidable Ottoman Empire, which, at its peak in 1683, before it was beaten back at the Gates of Vienna, controlled vast swaths of central Europe and the Middle East for hundreds of years:
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The 71-year-old Erdogan has been involved in Turkish politics for almost fifty years, beginning when he joined an anti-communist student group in 1976. He allied that with joining the Islamist National Salvation Party, which lasted until a 1980 military coup in Turkey dissolved all major political parties.
When parties were reinstated in 1983, Erdoğan went right back to becoming involved in Islamic nationalism—that is, returning Turkey to its Muslim roots. He was politically successful, rising from office to office while always pushing for Muslim nationalism. His base was conservative Muslims anxious to turn back the clock on secularizing reforms.
From 1994-1997, Erdoğan was Mayor of Istanbul. That stint ended when he was convicted for trying to sneak Islam back into Turkish politics. As with so many revolutionaries, that didn’t stop Erdoğan. He went right back to pushing for Muslim nationalism, eventually becoming a party leader.
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Who thought it was a good idea to admit Turkey into NATO?
If we’re near the event called Ezekiel 38, my guess is he isn’t going anywhere soon.
There’s a history between him and Israel, including opposition to Netanyahu.
I suppose we’re gonna find out..........
Following the death of Erdogan’s political mentor the major political figures of the International Muslim Brotherhood met in Turkey for his funeral. Now two decades on, Turkey serves as the Ikhwan nexus of Ikhwan, a movement dedicated to the destruction of the West. Yet, NATO continues along with Turkey in the fold. NATO (read Pentagon) stupidity is legion.
Nobody, but we need their bases.
Hard to remove a dictator who has all the guns and has his hand picked courts on his side.
I hope Erdoğan is treated like he did his opposition. Erdoğan overtook the government by coup. There needs to be one against him to take it back but I find that unlikely.
What’s the big deal?
Arresting your political rival?
We do that!
"We see what is happening in Palestine, may Allah destroy Israel."
ZAP!
What did him in was his crappy economic management.
Think of it like Bidenomics but on steroids.
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