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RIP Turkey, 1921 – 2017
Foreign Policy ^ | 16 April 2017 | STEVEN A. COOK

Posted on 04/16/2017 2:46:23 PM PDT by BeauBo

Recep Tayyip Erdogan didn’t just win his constitutional referendum — he permanently closed a chapter of his country’s modern history... Whether they understood it or not, when Turks voted “Yes”, they were registering their opposition to the Teşkilât-ı Esasîye Kanunu and the version of modernity that Ataturk imagined and represented. Though the opposition is still disputing the final vote tallies, the Turkish public seems to have given Erdogan and the AKP license to reorganize the Turkish state and in the process raze the values on which it was built.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: blogpimp; caliphate; dictator; erdogan; muslimworld; nato; turkey; turkeyelection
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To: dfwgator

Before we kick them out of NATO we’d best sneak our nukes out of Turkey and as many other military assets as possible. Too many marxists in Greece for their own good, but they’re very poor marxists these days. They’d love $ from Trump instead of € with Merkal’s strings. So lease some replacement bases from them! Only serious question should be do we want bases on Greek half of Cyprus as it begs the question of whether to let Turkey keep the other half.


101 posted on 04/17/2017 2:30:03 PM PDT by JohnBovenmyer (Waiting for the tweets to hatch!)
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To: BeadCounter

See my post #100


102 posted on 04/17/2017 2:32:17 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra (Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
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To: Helicondelta

The Turkish home people voted “no.” The Turks throughout Europe swayed the vote. All the Turks I know hate him!


103 posted on 04/17/2017 2:42:41 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra (Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
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To: BeauBo

The West is turned from the West, unless something gives in France, Germany or Norway’s elections.


104 posted on 04/17/2017 2:55:08 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (“If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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To: BeauBo; All
Thanks a lot Vick! HOW THE BLOODY MESS STARTED

100 YEARS LATER

HMPH! There go the last of the Brudenels!


105 posted on 04/17/2017 3:18:49 PM PDT by mainestategop (DonÂ’t Let Freedom Slip Away! After America , There is No Place to Go)
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To: BeauBo

I wonder how the Armenians are holding up.


106 posted on 04/17/2017 4:00:18 PM PDT by Karliner (Jeremiah29:11,Romans8:28 Isa 17, Damascus has fallen)
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To: lodi90

You and your incessant anti-Russian nonsense ... ponderous


107 posted on 04/17/2017 7:51:27 PM PDT by Neu Pragmatist (Stop the Neo-Cons and Warmongers - No war with Russia- Support Trump in this endeavor)
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To: nutmeg

Bookmark


108 posted on 04/17/2017 9:19:56 PM PDT by nutmeg (CNN has *always* been FAKE NEWS)
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To: major-pelham
oh goody goody !

another oportunity for the CIA to stir up another "civil war" and flood the civilized world with islamodorks...can hardly wait for the next wave of ingrate immigrants...we can fund their living allowances with our "social security" [/sarcasm]

109 posted on 04/17/2017 10:55:55 PM PDT by KTM rider
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To: Travis McGee

Worth noting here that Mein Kampf was a Germanic version of the koran.


110 posted on 04/18/2017 2:27:03 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: BeauBo

Since most of Turkey never left the 15th century or earlier, getting the big cities like Ankara and Istanbul in line should not be too difficult.


111 posted on 04/18/2017 2:28:50 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: dp0622
Islam has a funny, built-in mechanism. Whenever a particular Islamic culture advances, grows, becomes more Western, there is a fail safe mechanism that they employ to deport themselves back to the 7th century.
112 posted on 04/18/2017 5:15:58 AM PDT by Netz ( and looking for a way ti IMPROVE mankind.)
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To: VanDeKoik

The EU is in terminal decline

the EU lacks the will to live


113 posted on 04/18/2017 5:27:32 AM PDT by bert (K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... Hillary is Ameritrash, pass it on)
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To: Netz

My guess is once they get too close to anything resembling too much tolerance, they crack.

They are drawing from a hateful book.

It can never end well in the long run


114 posted on 04/18/2017 8:31:17 AM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust Conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: BeauBo

So a dictatorship is part of Nato and the EU? Serious?


115 posted on 04/18/2017 2:15:37 PM PDT by MNDude (God is not a Republican, but Satan is certainly a Democratt)
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To: Jim Noble
Turkey has never been part of the West.

Anti-communist and part of NATO -- that was certainly "Western" in the Cold War.

But in any case, a country could still be "turned towards the West" without being "part of the West."

If they've turned away from the West, that will become clear soon enough.

116 posted on 04/18/2017 2:28:36 PM PDT by x
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To: BeauBo

It is a sad time for Turkey, and I don’t see how they’ll be able to stay in NATO much longer. With all that Erdogan stands for, I can see him easily joining the putin, Hezbollah, Iranian mad mullah alliance.


117 posted on 04/18/2017 10:58:05 PM PDT by elhombrelibre (Cogito ergo sum a conservative pro-American.)
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To: elhombrelibre; Jan_Sobieski; Lera; pastorbillrandles; SaveFerris

Great post elhombrelibre you are right it won’t be long until Turkey is out of NATO and into the ill fated alliance with Russia and Iran in a invasion against Israel as was foretold by the Prophet Ezekiel some over 2,000 years ago.


118 posted on 04/19/2017 1:35:31 AM PDT by StoneWall Brigade
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To: Chauncey Gardiner; AuH2ORepublican; fieldmarshaldj; dfwgator; BillyBoy; sickoflibs; NFHale; ...

Well a nation with a lot of fools, and as pioneers of secular democracy, it’s sad to see. I bet a lot of people in this country would have voted to give Obama dictatorial powers.

I am hearing though that these results are not legit, in fact there is little reason to believe they are. The Sultan stuffed the ballot box. I do not think he’s a jihadist, I think he’s a wanna be Putin style dictator (and now he can lose the wanna be part) who uses religious rhetoric to gin up the vote from ignorant rural peasants and wants to expand his countries power. And that’s bad enough.

Turkey is one of those countries with no one for decent people to vote for, not since the Sultan took over the center-right party.

I hope there’s a coup at some point, preferably a real one this time. The last one was either staged entirely or most the pathetic attempt since Venezuela 2002.


119 posted on 04/19/2017 4:45:06 AM PDT by Impy (End the kritarchy!)
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To: Impy; fieldmarshaldj; dfwgator; BillyBoy; stephenjohnbanker; NFHale; DarthVader

While the assclowns are “worrying” about Assad, they’re completely ignoring the much greater danger in the region - Turkey.

“Islam, this absurd theology of an immoral Bedouin, is a rotting corpse which poisons our lives.”

-Mustafa Ataturk

He is/was 1000000000000000% right.


120 posted on 04/19/2017 5:48:01 AM PDT by GOPsterinMA (I'm with Steve McQueen: I live my life for myself and answer to nobody.)
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