Posted on 03/20/2015 8:11:16 PM PDT by DeaconBenjamin
The head of a provincial branch of Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has stirred the pot by tweeting that the country should “get ready for the caliphate” of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
Fuat Özgür Çalapkulu, the head of the AKP in the eastern province of Siirt, sent the controversial tweet on March 17, hours after Selahattin Demirtaş, the co-leader of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), said his party “will never let you be president [in a presidential system].”
In his tweet, Çalapkulu said Erdoğan’s opponents had in the past claimed that Erdoğan could not even be a village headman, but in fact he managed to rise to the top of the Turkish state.
“Now they are saying he cannot be president [under a presidential system]. The caliph is coming, get ready,” he added, referring to Erdoğan as “the tall man,” like many of his supporters.
A caliph is a spiritual leader of Islam who claims succession from Prophet Muhammad. The word, stemming from the Arabic khalifa meaning “successor,” has been the focus of much debate since being claimed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
After his tweet triggered an outcry, Çalapkulu changed the status of his Twitter account to “protected,” ensuring that only confirmed followers have access to his tweets. He also released a written statement on March 19, saying he has a different “perception” of the word “caliph.”
“I use this word to refer to a leader who has command of all the problems, institutions and administration of his country; a leader who is the independent and powerful voice of the world’s downtrodden; the protector of the oppressed; a good, successful, pioneering and visionary leader,” he said in the statement.
Çalapkulu, who was appointed to his office 45 days ago, also stressed that his “peacefully expressed” views should be respected within the scope of freedom of thought.
Turkey has to be linked to ISIS.
“Turkey has to be linked to ISIS.”
I doubt it. More likely we are going to see Dueling Caliphates. Get your popcorn ready.
IMHO Turkey’s leaders surreptitiously support ISIS and have plans to use it.
That’s not my question, my question is Obama encouraging him?
Well, the Queen is also the head of the church. Why not the head honcho in Turkey? Although I was under the impression that one does not declare themselves the head of a caliphate.
As long as Erdogan rules in Turkey, it is only a matter of time until he unveils himself as the true Caliph.
He will be the “good cop” moderate caliph, to rescue us all from the “bad cop” extremist ISIS caliph.
There is already some rumbling in Turkey that maybe they should go to Mosul, because they could take over from ISIS without all the death and destruction that a Shiite invasion would bring - because they have such unique relationships with the people there (because it used to part of their caliphate under the Ottomans).
I like your dueling caliphates idea. Erdogan is very powerful but the Saudis are at the center of the caliphate movement. The world MUST be Wahabbi, So says the Saudi king, the sponsor of Obama and ISIL.
Take a look at “God’s Terrorists-The Wahabbi Cult and the Hidden Roots of Modern Jihad”
I haven’t read it but I think it’s time to do so.
Sounds like a plan.....
Agreed. Erdogan now lives in a Caliph’s palace, he is about to reopen Hagia Sophia as a mosque, and the Ataturk mausoleum may be closed indefinitely for repairs.
Israel & the Greeks on Cyprus best keep their powder dry, not to mention those on the island of Crete.
Where muzzies once were, they want it back. Right now.
I read on a thread here some time ago that they converse in Arabic.
IMHO Turkey’s leaders surreptitiously support ISIS and have plans to use it.
Obama is very tight with the Turkish Prime Minister or President.
Same goes for the leaders of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and, sadly, the United States.
Fuat Özgür Çalapkulu?
Geshundheit!
Turks don’t usually speak arabic for what that’s worth.
But there is this:
Thanks.
One hundred years of progress under “Kemalism” and Erdogan is going to throw it all away I don’t think the Turkish people will accept a reversion to 7th century living
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