Posted on 05/31/2015 11:34:55 PM PDT by Rabin
Kurdish People’s Democratic Party (HDP). For the first time, is running as a political party instead of independent candidates. The ruling Party (AKP), has won every single election—presidential, legislative, and municipal—without serious opposition since first coming to power in 2002, is looking to introduce an executive presidency. After serving three terms as prime minister, the AKP’s charismatic leader, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, became the country’s first directly elected president by winning 51.8 percent of the popular vote in August 2014.
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Raben.
A military man I spoke with this weekend said he thinks that once ISIL has consolidated their power a little more they will ask to be recognized by a country, perhaps Russia, and ask to join the UN, and then get nukes from Pakistan. Should they succeed then I don’t see why the Kurds could not do the same thing.
Some of the dissidents from Chechnya, who are having a lot of Muslims go to Syria to join ISIS, believe that ISIS is itself a Russian creation to begin with.
Defectors like Alexander Litvinenko have tied Russia directly to Al-Qaeda, while others have tied terrorism in general to Moscow.
That ISIS might proclaim itself a country and ask Russia to support it is plausible to me— but, then again, Russia also holds itself up as being anti-Islamist, when it isn’t supporting them. Not sure how that cognitive dissonance will work in their propaganda.
Yes, the Kurds are an honorable and worthy people who love us. Only people in Iraq where our soldiers could mingle with without body armor, without weapons, and receive love and appreciation from for getting rid of Saddam. They have my support 100 percent. My dream is for an independent Kurdistan, but, this world tends towards either farce or tragedy, with very few happy endings.
DAIISH is an amalgamation of many countries’ covert operations drawn together by the umbrella commonly called ‘radical islam’ or islamist, but in reality made up of sadists, rapists and glory seekers.
No doubt the UN will, too.
As the referenced piece says, the support the ruling party has enjoyed for more than a decade is due to the economic reforms it implemented. These reforms included moving the budget close enough to balance so as to stabilize the value of the Turkish lira, as well as liberalizing the economy. But, that was a long time ago. The ruling party is now into crony capitalism combined with incremental increases in welfare-type spending. The economy has slowed down. And, the center-left and left parties are calling for increased welfare-type spending. The conservatives cannot win by attempting to out-promise the progressive left.
Considering the UN recognized the Khmer Rouge even after its removal from power, tells me it would have no compunction at all about recognizing ISIS as a state.
power, tells = power, that tells
Ping!
Think of it this way. In my mind if Russia created ISIS..
If Russia created or supported ISIS it wasn’t so they could have their own state.
Russia is strong allies with Assad in Syria and Russia also supports Tehran. Both for economic reasons mostly.
If Russia created ISIS.. it was to create a bad guy everyone could ‘hate’
And the Sunni’s just happened to be the odd man out.
Thanks gleeaikin.
Isis was created by the US.
By Barry Soetoro.
Rand Paul is that you?
That’s a good observation!
I hope the Kurdish people will win. I’m praying for them.
Russia has to play a subtle game because of the many Muslims in former territory that could attack or be persuaded to be business partners.
An interesting piece of information I had not known before is that Syria had experienced a record drought starting in 2006 and resulting in a doubling of the price of basic food stuffs by 2008, crowding into the cities, and general unrest. Here are many photos and also some useful charts and maps.
http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/WCAS-D-13-00059.1
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2015/03/150302-syria-war-climate-change-drought/
Do we really NEED to post the picture of John McCain with Isis again.I can’t help that you don’t like the truth, but I’m not going to try and converse with someone whose only response was as childish as yours.
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