Posted on 07/29/2016 9:19:45 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
The dire dimensions of the punitive measures instituted by Erdogan are beyond any limit conceivable in a state ruled by law. Over 2,000 entities suspected of having ties with Gulen have been shut down, including fifteen universities, 19 labor unions, 1,043 private schools, 1,229 foundations and 35 hospitals and health institutions.
The list of persons arrested is also beyond belief: No fewer than 8,000 military personnel, 2,000 magistrates and 1,500 policemen. In total, the number of individuals thrown in jail exceeds 80,000. A large number of them are academics. Education in Turkey has been decimated. Among others, 21,000 teachers from private schools have been stripped of their teaching credentials.
There are many reasons to believe that the proscription lists had been drafted before the attempted coup. Many of the academic and school staffs were targets of the proscription on account of their secret and not so secret support for the Kurdish population in the southeastern region of Turkey where the local population had come under bloody attacks by the army in the past year.
If this supposition is correct, the coup had been engineered to prevent the execution of the proscription. The Erdogan executive has proceeded to declare a state of emergency and the temporary suspension of the European Convention of Human Rights. A desperate appeal by a number of members of the European Parliament denounced another dramatic consequence of Erdogan’s subversion of democracy: The thousands who have been arrested cannot even hope to find lawyers for their defense since no lawyer can accept the job without the risk of ending up on a proscription list.
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Turkey is no longer a friend and ally to the U.S. It is an Islamic state.
Turkey is not descending into anything, it is returning to one man rule, just the way muslims love it.
An Islamic State favored and supported by Obama, the grease of a thousand pigs be upon them.
If that were the case, why did they not shoot Erdogan out of the sky when they had the chance. I think the coup was staged so that Erdogan could execute the proscription.
Barrack Hussein Obama - the gift that will keep on giving long after he is gone: death by the 1,000’s, then by the 10,000’s, then by...
Bingo!
It really is very simple. The majority of Turks are Sunni. They support Erdogan, who is a Sunni Islamist.
Gulen is a Sufi. Sunnis consider Sufis to be heretics and apostates. The Quran says they are worthy of death.
There are too many Turkish Sufis to kill at once and many Turkish Sufis are relatively prosperous and influential. So Erdogan must first deprive the Sufi heretics of their wealth and influence. The parallels with Hitler and the Jews are stark.
This also explains why Erdogan supports ISIS’ rebellion against Assad, who is an Alawite heretic.
But the US must be true to its NATO allies.
Erdogan wants to be the Caliph.
To muslims, restoring the Caliphate remains a goal on the way to Islamic supremacy.
Nato now has a member that intends to destroy the other members.
Erdogan is Obama’s homie. He supported him during the coup. Another great call by Obama /sarc.
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