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To: La Enchiladita
I don't follow Turkish politics, but I've seen the case made that Erdogan seized on the Gaza flotilla issue because his popularity was plummeting. I doubt demagoguery over Gaza would alter the political fundamentals in Turkey.
4 posted on 06/21/2010 2:34:15 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: colorado tanker

Yes, with the election of the new Head of the opposition CHP (the party founded by Ataturk and which opposes Islamic elements within public spaces such as headscarves in schools, universities and official buildings) the AKP lost even more support as most of the anti-AKP block has started to unite under the CHP banner. The AKP was already struggling due to high unemployment, a deteriorating economic situation and heightened corruption. The AKP, which is an offshoot of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, like Hamas, and which is sponsored by Saudi Arabia and the global wahhabists is trying to use the same strategy that Arab countries use to divert attention from internal problems to an eternal enemy responsible for every single problem. He is trying to make the Israeli-Arab conflict an integral part of Turkish politics and for that Turkey had to be directly pushed into the heart of the conflict, because for the Turkish electorate the situation of Gaza is just not important enough to sway votes as it is not a problem that directly involves Turkey. Erdogan is trying to change that so as to be able to use it as an internal political tool.

The AKP will probably lose votes, but they are not ready to give up their power as a single party government because there is still much work to do for the final Islamisation of Turkey and the creation of the Islamic Republic of Turkey, for this they will use foul play and it is my belief that they will rig the polls (just like in the recent Iranian elections), they have no moral objection to such a thing because they see themselves as working for the promotion of islam and thus for allah and for this they see themselves obliged to do anything possible even if it is dirty and immoral.

Turkey’s only chance is for the US and EU to look away while the Turkish secularist establishment headed by the army does a clean up, which includes the execution of all political islamists.


7 posted on 06/22/2010 10:05:12 AM PDT by morrandir
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