Posted on 07/22/2016 9:57:47 AM PDT by heterosupremacist
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is in a snit, and on a tear. Having survived last Friday’s military coup, the Turkish president has declared a three-month “state of emergency” and claimed a free hand in steam-shoveling old enemies.
As of this writing, he has “detained” 6,000 military personnel and 3,000 judges. Some are being held in a sports stadium, “a development,” observes The Independent, “that has ominous similarities with mass arrests in South American coups in the last century.”
Political prisoners are being refused contact with family and legal counsel, even by phone. For good measure, Erdoğan’s revoked the licenses of 21,000 teachers and demanded the resignation of 1,500 university deans. It’s worth pausing at this point to consider the precarious situation of Turkey’s 120,000 Christians. Most represent remnants of ethnic minority groups removed from the Turkish heartland during the final years of Ottoman rule – Armenians and Assyrians murdered during the First World War, Greeks expatriated according to the terms of the Lausanne Agreement. Consequently, their very presence in the country has always carried a whiff of subversion.
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Given that they have zero power and make up less than 1% in Turkey I don’t think Erdogan will risk stirring up a backlash by rounding them up. No, he’d leave it to his Islamic hordes to do the dirty work of persecution by oppression.
I hope you are correct. I don’t trust the Turks generally and Erdogan, especially!
The blood thirsty Islamists have been suppressed for a century in Turkey, when the local Imam’s start freelancing their followers, sending them against the Christians and Kurds, will Erdogan stop it? Can he stop it?
Erdogan is such a slime.
We can expect he’ll probably get full membership in the EU once the Caliphate is in place. It will be such an exotic place to visit with Erdogan and his harem too! Maybe they can conscript (kidnap) the firstborn Christian children again and start a Janissary army just like old times!
Now that Erdogan has the public admiration and backing of Trump, I expect he will feel free to round up all the Christians in Turkey!
You think ISIS is a problem, wait until Erdogan announces that Turkey is the caliphate and he is the caliph. They will flock to Turkey and islamists will have a modern military behind them. That will take some kind of work to deal with.
Scary!
Christians need to get out of there, quick.
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