Turkey Under Erdogan: Lurching Toward Sharia & A New Ottoman Empire

Clash Daily ^ | 11-2-13 | Audrey Russo

[ReformationFan]

“These descriptions are very ugly, it is offensive and an insult to our religion. There is no moderate or immoderate Islam. Islam is Islam and that’s it.” ~ Erdogan, PM of Turkey

Turkey took another step backwards this week … lurching toward Sharia … when 4 female MPs marked the end of a ban enforced since the early days of the Turkish Republic. The female MPs were wearing headscarves, as they walked into Turkey’s parliament in Ankara on Oct. 31st, designating the end of a prohibition vigorously imposed since the dawn of a secular Turkey.

On its face, this step seems harmless … but considering the steps since Erdogan’s reign, it’s anything but benign…

A little on Turkey’s birth as a Republic: The Turkish Republic was founded in 1923, after the fall of the barbaric, Islamic Ottoman Empire. (The Ottoman’s Motto: Devlet-i Ebed-müddet, “The Eternal State” … kind of makes them roommates with the Titanic.) Aside from the millions killed in expanding their Fiefdom … the Ottoman’s were responsible for the death of 1.5 million Armenian Christians, which they ethnically cleansed from their Empire.

But in 1923, a secular Muslim by the name Mustafa Kemal Ataturk became the first President of Turkey. He was determined to modernize the new Republic of Turkey and institute Western social reforms into this fledgling democracy. That meant rolling back the oppressive dictates of Sharia Islamic Law which guided the draconian empire.

All that progress has slowly but surely been chipped away under Erdogan’s Islamist reign. Here’s how the Caliphate-wannabe Erdogan has tried to resurrect the Ottomans.

[Usagi_yo]

I see an EU version that’s going to rise up in the mid east. Except for Israel of course. Who’s going to push it? How will an emergent Turkey going to contend with Iran?

[DemforBush]

This is worrisome, for more than one reason. Turkey has been the closest thing to a modern, democratic state in the Islamic world. If it really is trending towards a theocratic state, even gradually, it’s a bad omen indeed.

[dfwgator]

Kick them out of NATO, Now!

[Netz]

When is this Islamic dictator (hey NATO, is it ok that he’s a dictator?) going to be “taken out” by the PKK?

[Netz]

“...an emergent Turkey going to contend with Iran”?

How? Well, once a Muslim Brotherhood supporting Barak Obama lets Iran go nuclear, Turkey will sign non-agression pack with Iran. That i how this will play out, UNLESS, Israel strikes Iran. Then, all bets are off.