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Posted: 4/16/2017 8:49:34 AM EDT
Today the people of Turkey will vote in a referendum to decide how much power Erdogen will have going into the future, this vote will also limit the power that the courts and the legislative body have to curtail him.
Here is a great BBC article detailing the issues. Erdogens Turkey IF the country votes yes, then we will probably lose Turkey as an ally going into the future, the anti western sentiment coming from the government threatens Turkeys ties to Europe and by extension the US. The cooperation between Turkey and Russia in the past few years have been unprecedented, and the cult of personality that both Putin and Erdogen have developed make them both fiercely nationalistic, combine that with mutual goals in the ME then we could see an aligning of these two powers. Votes have consequences, Turkey is going to choose today what it wants to be in the future, and I fear that it will not be the secular, western path that Ataturk set the country on at its founding. |
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Something tells me it's already been determined how the people will vote
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Something tells me it's already been determined how the people will vote View Quote I can hope that the voting procedures are such that any attempted shenanigans by Erdogen are found out. Such would probably lead to violence though. |
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Ataturk's dream died when they let Erdogan live through that coup last year.
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We need the rest of our Garands back before they go full snackbar. At least the Turk Navy was nice enough to return theirs.
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Anyone with brains adequate to pour piss from a boot saw the demise of secularism in Turkey coming at least as far back as 2003 when Erdogen became Prime Minister.
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Anyone with brains adequate to pour piss from a boot saw the demise of secularism in Turkey coming at least as far back as 2003 when Erdogen became Prime Minister. View Quote You know its a borderline country when the military traditionally throws coups to keep the government secular. Hardly the democratic model we as Americans like to think we support. Yet when it comes to countering Soviet aggression and keeping the Soviet navy bottled up in the Black Sea then we gain strange bedfellows. |
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It'll be interesting for future generations to see how long it took for a new Ataturk to rise again...
I think Erdogan and the death of the secularists are a done deal in that country, it's on the way right down the hole. |
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Sadly, You know its a borderline country when the military traditionally throws coups to keep the government secular. Hardly the democratic model we as Americans like to think we support. Yet when it comes to countering Soviet aggression and keeping the Soviet navy bottled up in the Black Sea then we gain strange bedfellows. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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Anyone with brains adequate to pour piss from a boot saw the demise of secularism in Turkey coming at least as far back as 2003 when Erdogen became Prime Minister. You know its a borderline country when the military traditionally throws coups to keep the government secular. Hardly the democratic model we as Americans like to think we support. Yet when it comes to countering Soviet aggression and keeping the Soviet navy bottled up in the Black Sea then we gain strange bedfellows. |
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Yup. Erdogan has Ottoman Empire dreams. Loves the Muslim Brotherhood and everything it stands for. View Quote https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/crime/item/7494-george-soros-allies-with-the-muslim-brotherhood I'm wondering if NATO is about to swing Islamist. |
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No suprise, look who else loves the Muslim Brotherhood. https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/crime/item/7494-george-soros-allies-with-the-muslim-brotherhood I'm wondering if NATO is about to swing Islamist. View Quote That asshole has his hands into so much bullshit. Watching and reading up on the Minerva Initiative right now... |
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Well, it's good to see the tie in with Soros for the whole R2P scam that Samantha Power was pressing so hard for in the UN (successfully), being the excuse to invade Qaddafi's Libya. That got the Arab Spring into high gear. It was her, Hillary and Sarkozy pulling Cameron into it that got it into gear. Then ISIL. Assholes. Didn't know it was Soros behind it though with his International Crisis Group. That asshole has his hands into so much bullshit. Watching and reading up on the Minerva Initiative right now... View Quote I think they're up to something with the whole Turkey snuggling with the Russians bullshit. I'm betting it's a posture to get a more Islamist friendly set embedded within NATO. If they feign a new alignment NATO will offer them a greater command role in the their region to woo them back into the fold and they'll get more sway at NATO headquarters. These assholes do everything for a specific goal. |
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With all that's going on in Turkey this whole scenario makes perfect sense.
Turkey has a shit ton of problems right now. . . dealing with a transition of power (via a new leader) won't be one. |
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Voted Yes View Quote |
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I reckon if the religious fanatics triumph it will set the Turks back a few centuries.
The "your-a-peons" were wise to not let them in the EU. |
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The Aye's have it...
Turkey is lost On the pro side, I would totally be down with a Turkish war wife... |
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Im not convinced that Erdogen didnt know about it before hand. It was incredibly neatly done how he wrapped up the attackers. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes |
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............and another supposedly secular westernized majority muslim country has flipped.
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Erdogan has used the coup to erase all opposition involved or not. Little more than the usual Islamic cleansing. Say so long to belly dancing.
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We need to get our people - aircraft - maintenance / support equipment - and the nukes out.
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I think the nukes are gone, Id suspect that they were moved after the coup and the resulting demonstration outside Incirlik
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It's time to reevaluate our relationship with them. They can't be trusted in any capacity.
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Voted Yes |
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Shit show. Open the flood gates for immigration. View Quote |
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Not sure how turkey and Russian ME views are aligned. View Quote Turkey's regional goals are somewhat foggier at this point. Erdogan's position can now be very fluid.... |
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I believe that their are US, or NATO nukes deployed in Turkey. Time to get them out.
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Fuck Turkey, it'll be even more of a Middle East shithole in the next few years. Expect the refugee crisis to get worse.
Can we annex Constantinople? |
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