[rmlew]

UPDATE: Hanefi Avcı was arrested and jailed on September 28. He is accused of having cooperated with a violent revolutionary organization, a charge as plausible as Winston Churchill having been an undercover operative for Stalin. It is a sad commentary on the state of Turkish justice that he has become a victim of the dirty tricks he described in his book.

[rmlew]

Hanefi Avcı, who played Emile Zola to this Islamist Dreyfuss Affair/Stalinist purge, was arrested. Where is the international media? This case has mainpulated evidence, charges of adultery, illegal wiretaps, blatently and poorly manufactured evidence and now press getting arrested. Where is the Economist, Wall Street Journal, New York Times...

Is the world elite so blind as to think the Islamist AKP and Gullen to be liberals here? Turkey is become Pakistan, if not Iran.

[Cicero]

Agreed. Things began to go obviously bad about the time that the Generals led Bush on until the last minute and then refused to let him use Turkish territory for the invasion if Iraq. That killed the planned northern front and led to serious extension of the war.

The Generals were, I suspect, encouraged to put a monkey wrench into the invasion by Chirac, who had a close working relationship with Saddam, and told Turkey that if they stiffed the U.S. it would help them get into NATO.

Well, Turkey was disappointed on that one. But meantime the Generals allowed a Muslim government to increase in power. The dream of joining the EU was scotched. And the Muslim government proved a lot stronger and more dangerous than the generals expected.

It’s a bad business. Turkey was the enemy of Europe and the Christian West until the deposition of the Sultan in the First World War. Now it looks as if they want to go back to being our enemy again. NATO no longer can count on Turkey to guard its flank.

A bad business.

[Jimmy Valentine]

If Erdogan gets awaywith ending Kemalism, and the mullahs get in the saddle Turkey will go backwards 150 years in a year just like Iran.

[StonyBurk]

What an interesting speculation— How would America respond if only this piece was written about american Military Officers
and a plan to remove the threat of the man from Kenya now defended by our mere politicians?