Posted on 04/17/2017 6:13:49 AM PDT by pgkdan
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is claiming victory in a referendum that gives him extraordinary new powers.
The vote - much closer than many anticipated - makes Erdogan a virtual dictator. Turkey, previously a nominal parliamentary democracy, will now embrace a presidential system of government, granting the chief executive the power to issue decrees and exercise authority previously reserved for the legislature.
***SNIP***
It's hard to overstate the incredible transformation of Turkey over the last decade under Erdogan's rule. The country has gone from a secular democracy to a full blown Islamist state. Erdogan has cleansed the bureaucracy, the army, cultural institutions, and politics of the last vestiges of secularism that was the hallmark of Turkish society since the end of World War I. The army, former guarantor of this secularism, has been purged and remade in the image of Erdogan's notion of "Islamist democracy."
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How long will we allow this tyrant to stay in NATO?
Agree. Just waiting for him to move the capital from Ankara to Istanbul and name it Constantinople again. Lived in Izmir from 71-73 when the General Staff was firmly in charge and it wasn’t bad. Would not want to be anywhere near it now.
Ataturk’s reforms lasted less than 100 years.
Too bad.
True... seems the populace prefers seven day shiiters to mini-skirts!
Erdogan will appoint Judges bring back the death penalty a red line for the EU
Pure Dictatorship
In retrospect, I wonder how many Europeans will realize that once again, they didn’t see the rise of another Hitler until it was too late?
Erdogan is positively drooling with the thought of an Islamic conquest of weak, corrupt Europe. With him as “the big boss”, of course.
Getting very close to Civil War
He is and he's not making any bones about it. His Crescent vs the Cross comments should be taken very seriously. He's itching for a fight with someone.
And now he’s Enabled to Act.
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