[markomalley]

For your discernment.

[Netz]

So What Lays Ahead?

Resurgent Muslim Brotherhood activities.
Support for Radical Islam in Gaza.
Anti-Israel tirades.
Movement away from NATO.
Trouble in the entire Aegean area.
Increased Antisemitism.

[The Californian]

Bttt

[windsorknot]

Heil Erdogan!

[smokingfrog]

Bad news

[BobL]

Think of Egypt under the Brotherhood...pretty much the same there. Beautiful country, probably worth visiting soon, before they start stoning tourists for holding hands in public.

[Biggirl]

This is really very bad.

Could he be laying the possible foundation of a new Ottomon Turkish Empire?

[Shery]

I wonder if there will be a fight between Bahgdadi and Erdogan as to whom is the real caliph?

[WilliamofCarmichael]

Erdogan promised to be president for all Turks.. well the AKP promised to respect the Republic of Turkey's secularism but AKP apparently lied. I think that he only got 51% of the vote BTW.

These demonstrations against the AK Party are from a few years ago. So there are plenty of Turks to show up at future demonstrations.

Lest some think that all Turks are ready to give in to Islamism, Sharia law, and burkas.. well no they are not.

"Opinion polls that measure attitudes toward the AKP and its conservative values suggest that 32 percent to 38 percent of Turks (upward of 25 million people) would never support the AKP or want to live in a country shaped solely by its values."

This is the source of the images and details.. though it looks like these and other images are now missing from the site but are apparently still available from the source in Turkey (or if the photos are still with my reply there's maybe a cache somewhere from the last time I posted these).

The image on the banner is of Ataturk the founder of modern secular democratic constitutional Republic of Turkey. The photos are from demonstrations of a few years ago protesting the ruling AK Party's Islamist (political Islam & Sharia law) leanings and reminding the AKP that they promised the voters that they would respect Turkey's heritage of secularism.