Posted on 01/14/2015 2:50:48 PM PST by george76
Qadhafi liked to surround himself with women (whereas Erdogan seems to prefer the opposite, ordering the fairer sex “know their place” and stay at home); and third, Erdogan’s multi-billion dollar embezzlement schemes make the madman of Libya seem, well, a bit modest and unambitious.
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Perhaps no leader was more hypocritical than Erdogan to send a representative, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, to show up in Paris and march in solidarity against the terrorist attack on Charlie Hebdo. Here’s why:
1.No sooner did Davutoglu return home, than Erdogan's Brownshirts raided newspapers planning to reprint the Charlie Hebdo issue and blocked websites publishing the post-massacre Charlie Hebdo cartoon
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2.Davutoglu traveled to France just after the two-year anniversary of the brutal assassination of three Kurdish activists at their office in Paris. Audio recordings strongly suggest that the hit was carried out by Turkish security services on behalf of Erdogan’s regime.
3.As Davutoglu visited Paris, Erdogan’s regime was hosting not only Hamas leaders, but specifically those Hamas leaders who have used Turkish territory to plan terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians.
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7.And, last but not least, the Deli murderer professed his fealty to the Islamic State (ISIS, ISIL, Daesh). Erdogan forgets without Turkey, there would be no Islamic State (ISIS, ISIL, Daesh). Not only did Erdogan open Turkey’s doors and airport lounges to tens of thousands of foreign militants traversing Turkey to join and train in the Islamic State, but he has provided safe-haven ... supplied ISIS and other like-minded extremist groups inside Syria. Simply put, historians will likely deem ISIS not simply an outgrowth from Al Qaeda, but rather the bastard child of Turkish intelligence and Qatari financing.
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Erdogan at his core is an Islamist who dreams of a new caliphate. He has provided ISIS with a secure northern border, supply lines, medical facilities and access to the outside world. He is truly duplicitous. However as long as Turkey remains a part of NATO, he cannot be touched. Otherwise the Russians would have made short work of ISIS and the other jihadists operating in Syria.
I like the idea, but because Turkey is in Nato, Putin cannot blast ISIS and jihadis in Syria? They're not on Turkish soil, so what's stopping him? Thanks for cluing me in.
Thanks for the post. Our son moves to Turkey next month to work. Trying to keep up on the news there.
Do you know if there is a ping list?
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