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Turkey’s Game-Changing Election
Carnegi Eeurope ^ | MAY 29, 2015 | Marc Pierini, Sinan Ülgen

Posted on 05/31/2015 11:34:55 PM PDT by Rabin

Kurdish People’s Democratic Party (HDP). For the first time, is running as a political party instead of independent candidates. The ruling Party (AKP), has won every single election—presidential, legislative, and municipal—without serious opposition since first coming to power in 2002, is looking to introduce an executive presidency. After serving three terms as prime minister, the AKP’s charismatic leader, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, became the country’s first directly elected president by winning 51.8 percent of the popular vote in August 2014.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: akp; an; election; erdo287; erdogan; hdp; isis; kurd; kurdistan; receptayyiperdogan; turkey; turkeyelection
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To: Lil Flower
Do we really NEED to post the picture of John McCain with Isis again.

Go ahead, but then I'll post a link identifying them as other people, and I'll probably be asking you to prove those guys are actually ISIS rather than generic looking Arabs. We'll see how well you do the second go around.

21 posted on 06/03/2015 11:12:31 PM PDT by Greetings_Puny_Humans (I mostly come out at night... mostly.)
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans
The Kurds are expecting Obama to help them. Forget it Kurds, we'd like to but our “leader’ already wet himself 2,000 times...
22 posted on 06/04/2015 3:31:48 AM PDT by Netz
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To: ConservativeMan55; All

Late developments: Iran sending troops to Assad, and Saudi Arabia admits to cooperating with Israel.


23 posted on 06/04/2015 7:52:02 PM PDT by gleeaikin
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To: gleeaikin

Where’d you see this??


24 posted on 06/04/2015 9:46:23 PM PDT by ConservativeMan55 (In America, we don't do pin pricks. But sometimes we elect them.)
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

Wouldn’t surprise me a bit if Russia was behind ISIS. Fits their M.O. Much of the terrorism of the 1970s was backed by Russia, for example the training camps in Cuba, and numerous acts of violence in North and South America.

The name “cold war” is a misnomer. Should have been called “covert” war. Russia/former Soviet Union is always up to something. Meet the new Russia - Acts a lot like the old Russia.


25 posted on 06/05/2015 2:45:54 AM PDT by greeneyes (Moderation in defense of your country is NO virtue. Le//t Freedom Ring.)
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To: ConservativeMan55; caww; BeauBo; SunkenCiv; All

It has been several days since I saw this. I would have to Google search, and I don’t have time for the next 48 hours. The Iran/Assad item I think I saw on line. The Egypt/Israel item I think I heard on radio. It was saying that this has been going on for a while, but that the Saudi’s were just now admitting it, so probably can find that on Google too.

On the subject of unusual pairings, did anyone hear Michael Savage the other day on Religion and savage behavior? He was cutting up Muslim fanaticism like crazy, but then had a lot to say about the Old Testament, and particularly items meriting the death sentence in Leviticus, which today are being carried out by ISIS/ISIL, but not by the rest of the “civilized” world. He also pointed out that he has looked at other world religions that have never sanctioned the cruelty of the Old Testament and Islam. I had read Leviticus a week ago and been struck with the similarities of some items there with extreme Muslim actions.


26 posted on 06/05/2015 12:26:55 PM PDT by gleeaikin
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To: gleeaikin

Living without the laws that make civilization possible is indeed a freeing experience, for a very short time.


27 posted on 06/05/2015 12:32:44 PM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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