Erdogan & The Emerging Dictatorship in Turkey (1 Viewer)

[SaintsInDome2006]

Prior threads on the referendum ending the age of Attaturk here and also about the in retrospect very sketchy looking coup attempt that started it all here.

 

[SaintsInDome2006]

>>The election ushers in a new era in Turkey, marking the end of a century-old parliamentary democracy and the transition to an executive presidential system, bestowing on Erdogan immense new powers he has long coveted.<<

Erdogan has won with 52.6% of the vote.

 

[Sinn Fein]

To answer Tim's question - of course we are still Allies. 

Any friend of Putin is a friend of ours.

 

[timschochet]

Didn't see this thread, sorry.

In any case this is very very bad.

 

[jomar]

POTUS should be calling to congratulate him any minute

 

[Sinn Fein]

New World Order - 

1. Russia, and its minions
   
2. China, and its minions
   
3. Europe
   
4. India
   
5. England/Great Britain and her colonies
   
6. The rest
   

 

[JbizzleMan]

POTUS should be calling to congratulate him any minute

This isn't funny because he really does prefer dictatorships. 

 

[SaintsInDome2006]

Didn't see this thread, sorry.

In any case this is very very bad.

I wouldn't underestimate the ability of someone like Erdogan to transform a nation with only a slight majority. Chavez wreaked havoc on Venezuela that way. I'm not sure they can be trusted in NATO right now but Otoh Turkey is key to NATO.

 

[timschochet]

I wouldn't underestimate the ability of someone like Erdogan to transform a nation with only a slight majority. Chavez wreaked havoc on Venezuela that way. I'm not sure they can be trusted in NATO right now but Otoh Turkey is key to NATO.

yeah Venezuela is nothing compared to Turkey. Turkey's position in the world- the fact that it borders Russia, Europe, Iran, Iraq...

Yikes. This is really a calamity.

 

[SaintsInDome2006]

Trump working on extraditing Erdogan foe Gulen, Turkish foreign minister claims

 

[Fan of Charles McCoy]

Gulen should consider either hiding or fleeing to Canada. The Canadians have shown a will to stand up to the Saudis, which the US is cozy with. I bet they would tell Turkey to go #### themselves as well. 

Canada, the current beacon of freedom and liberty.

 

[Van Dyman]

Trump working on extraditing Erdogan foe Gulen, Turkish foreign minister claims

I missed this somehow in November, but looks like the direction they've been headed. Apparently the idea is some ###-for-tat arrangement in which Turkey gets Gulen in exchange for giving the Saudis a free pass on the Kashoggi murder. Ick.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/white-house-weighs-booting-erdogan-foe-u-s-appease-turkey-n933996

 

[Angry spiders]

I missed this somehow in November, but looks like the direction they've been headed. Apparently the idea is some ###-for-tat arrangement in which Turkey gets Gulen in exchange for giving the Saudis a free pass on the Kashoggi murder. Ick.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/white-house-weighs-booting-erdogan-foe-u-s-appease-turkey-n933996

What the actual f....this isnt how America operates.....orange guy has got to go

 

[AAABatteries]

New World Order - 

1. Russia, and its minions
   
2. China, and its minions
   
3. Europe
   
4. India
   
5. England/Great Britain and her colonies
   
6. The rest
   

WE’RE #1!!!!

 

[SaintsInDome2006]

Trump lifts sanctions on Turkey despite their continuing jailing of several Americans, including US Consulate workers.

 

[SaintsInDome2006]

Turkey's Parliament has granted Erdogan emergency powers over the economy.