Posted on 07/16/2016 4:09:09 AM PDT by Biggirl
Turkey is in chaos and the future does not bode well for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his allies regardless of whether Erdogan can wrest control from an army group that announced on Friday it has taken over the country.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
But I read somewhere they bombed his room at the hotel where he was staying and missed him.
I know you are right but I pray you are not.
I know Turns. This was a put job by the black dog Erdogan and his Islamist fellow travelers.
First, Turkey’s much-heralded economic growth spurt of the 2000’s has come to a grinding stop.
Secondly, Turkey’s internal cohesion is at risk due to the rapid increase of its Kurdish-speaking minority and the relative decline of the ethnic Turkish population.
To prevent the Syrian Kurds from controlling the northern border of their country and linking up with their Iraqi compatriots, Erdogan covertly supported Sunni terrorists, including ISIS, as Michael Rubin explained last March in Newsweek. Erdogan’s back channel to ISIS blew up in Turkey’s face–literally–when ISIS suicide bombers killed 42 people and injured hundreds at the Istanbul Airport June 29.
Since the collapse of the Ottoman Empire after World War I and the foundation of the modern state, Turkey’s army acted as the guarantor of the country’s secular state.
http://atimes.com/2016/07/the-sick-man-of-europe-once-again/
This is not the last round.
...Who will soon be gone and real adults coming in.
And more....(From Daily Telegraph)
2:36PM
More judges hunted in widening crackdown
Turkish authorities have arrested 10 members of the Council of State, the country’s top administrative court, and are searching for 140 members of the court of cessation in a probe related to a failed overnight coup, broadcaster NTV reported.
Earlier, the Anadolu agency said that 2,745 judges had been dismissed.
Turkey’s government has said members of a “parallel structure” in the military were behind the coup - referring to followers of U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen.
President Tayyip Erdogan has long accused former ally Gulen, of building a parallel structure in the judiciary, military, education and media aimed at eventually toppling the state.
“...Johnny Turk is not some Church of England schoolmaster)....”
I’ve worked with Turks. You are indeed correct.
US planes already up will be allowed to land at #incirlik but Turks close airspace no new ISIS strikes launched. No word when airspace back
https://twitter.com/barbarastarrcnn/status/754311568003895296
US consulate in Ankara says power to Incirlik AFB has been cut; also access to the base #Turkey
https://twitter.com/CBSWalsh/status/754309527978270720
See link below:
The Counter-Coup Begins: Erdogan Purges 2,745 Judges, Prosecutors; Arrests Hundreds
Fox is reporting now that eight generals have fled to Greece seeking asylum and Erdogan is demanding their return....
I was thinking the same thing. If they had bagged Erdogan as their first move, the whole state would probably have collapsed like a house of cards.
NATO (USA really) has nuclear weapons stockpiled in Turkey. I think now might be a good time to remove them.
Thank-you, that is a great analysis.
The concept of an EU army has no teeth under the current membership. Add Turkey to the mix and an EU army becomes a threat to Russia and any other European state that is a non-member.
I see Turkey becoming the “sick man” of Europe once again and will drag down what is left of the EU.
With Russia, even if Turkey was to get in, it would hand the EU its rear end.
Second it.
I am not surprised. I see Mr. Erdogan trying to start a Muslim empire.
+1
Thanks for saving me the time to post the exact same thing.
There is no way in hell Russia will allow Turkey to take over Europe. Should Turkey attempt to do so, war with Russia is very likely. Should Turkey turn into a terrorist (ISIS) supporting state again war with Russia is very likely.
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