Get ready for Erdogan’s caliphate, Turkey’s ruling party official says

Hürriyet ^ | March/19/2015

[Paladin2]

Turkey has to be linked to ISIS.

[Pelham]

“Turkey has to be linked to ISIS.”

I doubt it. More likely we are going to see Dueling Caliphates. Get your popcorn ready.

[House Atreides]

IMHO Turkey’s leaders surreptitiously support ISIS and have plans to use it.

[Usagi_yo]

That’s not my question, my question is Obama encouraging him?

[boycott]

I believe Erdoğan and Obama are pretty close.

[Vermont Lt]

Well, the Queen is also the head of the church. Why not the head honcho in Turkey? Although I was under the impression that one does not declare themselves the head of a caliphate.

[BeauBo]

As long as Erdogan rules in Turkey, it is only a matter of time until he unveils himself as the true Caliph.

He will be the “good cop” moderate caliph, to rescue us all from the “bad cop” extremist ISIS caliph.

There is already some rumbling in Turkey that maybe they should go to Mosul, because they could take over from ISIS without all the death and destruction that a Shiite invasion would bring - because they have such unique relationships with the people there (because it used to part of their caliphate under the Ottomans).

[Veto!]

I like your dueling caliphates idea. Erdogan is very powerful but the Saudis are at the center of the caliphate movement. The world MUST be Wahabbi, So says the Saudi king, the sponsor of Obama and ISIL.

Take a look at “God’s Terrorists-The Wahabbi Cult and the Hidden Roots of Modern Jihad”

I haven’t read it but I think it’s time to do so.

[Paladin2]

Sounds like a plan.....

[elcid1970]

Agreed. Erdogan now lives in a Caliph’s palace, he is about to reopen Hagia Sophia as a mosque, and the Ataturk mausoleum may be closed indefinitely for repairs.

Israel & the Greeks on Cyprus best keep their powder dry, not to mention those on the island of Crete.

Where muzzies once were, they want it back. Right now.

[spokeshave]

I believe Erdoğan and Obama are pretty close.

I read on a thread here some time ago that they converse in Arabic.

[laplata]

IMHO Turkey’s leaders surreptitiously support ISIS and have plans to use it.

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Obama is very tight with the Turkish Prime Minister or President.

[laplata]

I believe Erdoğan and Obama are pretty close. I read on a thread here some time ago that they converse in Arabic. -------- That's right. Erdogen doesn't speak English and he and Obama were off in a corner chatting away without a translator.

[Mr. Jeeves]

IMHO Turkey’s leaders surreptitiously support ISIS and have plans to use it.

Same goes for the leaders of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and, sadly, the United States.

[Wally_Kalbacken]

Fuat Özgür Çalapkulu?

Geshundheit!

[Pelham]

Turks don’t usually speak arabic for what that’s worth.

[Pelham]

But there is this:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/12/12/why-turkeys-president-wants-to-revive-the-language-of-the-ottoman-empire/

[laplata]

Thanks.

[Jimmy Valentine]

One hundred years of progress under “Kemalism” and Erdogan is going to throw it all away I don’t think the Turkish people will accept a reversion to 7th century living