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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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Erdogen has already said that all who vote no support the terrorists, or are Terrorists, or that they will be labeled terrorists...

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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Im not convinced that Erdogen didnt know about it before hand. It was incredibly neatly done how he wrapped up the attackers. 
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I was going to say the same. Ataturk is rolling in his grave.
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Fixed.  Who do you think tipped him off?
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yet Obama didnt allow Gulen to be extradited so..

The irony is that Gulen was by far the more islamist asshole than Erdogen. 
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Yep
Link Posted: 4/16/2017 10:38:55 AM EDT
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How many years until full on Turkey Civil War?
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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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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. 
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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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My thoughts also. I wrote Turkey off at that time.
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Yup. Erdogan has Ottoman Empire dreams. Loves the Muslim Brotherhood and everything it stands for.
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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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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. 
A secular government and a Muslim majority, ultimately only one will survive.
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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.
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Fuck erdogan
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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

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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...
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I think your're right 
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Reports already coming out that the gov is cheating
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That's my thinking as well.

They will be the next Iran.
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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...
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It's Brezeznski too, not only was he the CFR foreign policy advisor to the Obama administration but he sits on the board of ICG with Soros and that Muslim Brotherhood turd.

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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I hope the secularists have the fortitude to rise up.  After the poor showing during the "coup", I have my doubts.
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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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Well there goes the neighborhood
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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. 
My belief is that there really wasn't a coup, Erdogan was just running a Stalin-esque purge of his officer corps. It's always some sort of treason-type crime they get tagged with after the fact.
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............and another supposedly secular westernized majority muslim country has flipped.
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Pretty much.

Iran
Afghanistan
and now Turkey

Seems to only go one way.
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Fuck those terrorists, no matter the vote outcome.
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But muh democracy...
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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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Shit show. Open the flood gates for immigration.
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Oh Hell, that was always classic European 21st century style feelz.  Rather than be the big meanies and actually closing their borders, they decide they will maintain their aire of moral superiority on the topic, while paying Turkey to be the big meanies and hold back the migrants for them.  That was always horse-shit.  You have a border, and you have a mandate to spend 2% of your GDP on military expenses.  Figure it out Europe.
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Not sure how turkey and Russian ME views are aligned.
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I thought it was a little sanitary myself. Coups are messy, this one wasn't as though it was for show to cement power.
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Link Posted: 4/16/2017 6:40:41 PM EDT
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About that EU thing...
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Russia desires a port in the Med that allows year long access, Russia also wants access to the oil in the region. 

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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I'm in the camp that believes the Coup was a false flag by Erdogan...
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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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