[UCFRoadWarrior]

If they change the pro-military constitution, it means Turkey becomes more Islamic...and more Islamic Terrorism. The military has kept the Islamic nutjobs from running roughshod

[mainsail that]

Don’t like this, but I hope I’m proven wrong

[GeronL]

Shariah Turkey.

What’s the gravy?

[Armaggedon]

Turkey is becoming more Sharia compliant. Radical Islam is taking over. Turkey is no longer a friend of America. Obama will be pleased.

[Rappini]

I still can’t get over the fact that Turkey wouldn’t let the 4th ID cross into Iraq when we went to War.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

reforms would shackle the independence of the courts. . . The [reforms that] would give parliament more say in appointing judges masks an attempt to control the courts, which have sparred with Mr. Erdogan's [Islamist AK Party].

The ruling AK Party already jails military, journalists, educators, and anyone who opposes them. The courts have freed some of the victims of the Islamist (politcal Islam, Sharia Law advocates) AK Party.

The ruling [AK] party, whose reforms have won backing from the EU, says the hard-line emphasis on secularism and nationalism must be updated to incorporate democratic change, including religious freedoms. [It's about democracy and religious freedom, sound familiar?] [The AKP] lost a battle in 2008 when the Constitutional Court struck down a government-backed amendment lifting a ban on the wearing of Muslim headscarves in universities. [My comments]

"Democracy" and "religious" "freedom" for the Islamists (political Islam and Sharia Law advocates) but little or none for us.

So why aren't tens of millions of Muslims in Turkey "Islamophobes"?

Soon citizens of Turkey (99.9% Muslim) protesting against Islamism (political Islam & Sharia law) will be a crime, kinda like it's becoming here?

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Pray for the U.S. of A. we have our own version of Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the AKP.

The photos are from demonstrations of three years ago protesting the ruling AK Party's Islamist leanings and reminding the AKP that they promised the voters that they would respect Turkey's heritage of secularism.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks LibWhacker.

Street clashes mar voting at polling stations in areas with large Kurdish populations, as Kurdish party urges boycott

Free Kurdistan.

• Vote of confidence for all of Erdogan's policies
  (Islamists win in Turkey; WH "Hails Result")
• Reforms dividing Turkey?
• Turks Hit PKK With Chemical Weapons
• Report: Turkey used chemical weapons to kill Kurdish rebels
• Did Turkey Bomb Kurds With Chemical Weapons in 2009?
• Turkey was 'bent on provoking Israel' in the Gaza flotilla incident
• Turkey Building 10 Meter High Wall inside Jerusalem
• Cold Turkey: Commission shows Flotilla crew fired first at Israeli soldiers
• Turkey backs gasoline sales to Iran despite sanctions
• Turkey To Give Hizbullah Weapons

some nutty ka-ka:

• Turkey, with help from Germany, to become 'submarine manufacturer'
• [Exclusive] Turkey could join Korea's fighter plan
• Report: Turkey could host advanced U.S. radar to confront Iran missile threat
• U.S. Withdraws from Turkey Military Drill

some irony:

• Mystery Over Russian General Found Dead on Turkish Beach
• Russia, Turkey named 'most dangerous' web countries

some of the usual:

• Turkey: Nationalists Protest Orthodox Liturgy on the Assumption [media spin]
• the endangered Orthodox patriarchate of Constantinople [Catholic / Orthodox Caucus]
• First Mass in 88 years celebrated at Turkish monastery
• Bishop Chrysostom of Smyrna was lynched by Muslims today in 1922

[SunkenCiv]

...a referendum hailed by the government as a leap toward full democracy in line with its troubled bid to join the European Union.

Erdogan and his fellow Islamofascists used that moribund bid as a smokescreen -- while pushing for burkahs as a sign of "religious tolerance" in the EU. Sarkozy and Co in France -- that's in France, people -- say this:

• French Senate passes ban of full Muslim veils
• French Senate passes ban of full Muslim veils

Meanwhile, Dutch political corruption has prevented a party devoted to self-defense against Islamofascism in the Netherlands from taking power.