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The Grand Turk
Turkey’s nightmares will come true if Erdogan refuses to back down
2018-08-19
[ARABNEWS] Depending on how you look at it, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey...
 is either a political genius with a keen sense of electoral timing, or his country’s worst economic nightmare. For Erdogan, politics is the art of survival ‐ and he is extremely good at that. He correctly judged voters’ temperament and called early elections on June 24. But what has been good for Erdogan at the polls has not been good for The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
, with the lira now in freefall and a major crisis brewing in Ottoman Turkish-American relations that, in turn, is pummeling the economy. Worse yet, Erdogan is just getting started.
Posted by:Fred

#4  Also what was not shared was that Israel released a Turkish Hamas collaborator and prisoner, Ebru Ozkan, in which he was allowed to leave Israel for Turkey in mid-July. Brunson, meanwhile, was released into house arrest on Wednesday [July 25th] but [Brunson] has not been permitted to leave Turkey.

It was understood Brunson would be free to leave Turkey, Erdogan renigged.
Posted by: mossomo   2018-08-19 17:09  

#3  . But what has been good for Erdogan at the polls has not been good for Turkey
Sing along with me the Deutschlandlied:
♫ Deutschland, Deutschland Turkey, Turkey über alles,
Über alles in der Welt,... ♫
Posted by: magpie   2018-08-19 11:45  

#2  The nukes have reportedly been removed from Incirlik.

Except for that one buried under the runways
Posted by: Frank G   2018-08-19 08:55  

#1  Omitted in this article is the fact that in 2017 Erdogan publicly declared that Brunson was a hostage who would be freed in return for Gülen.

Erdogan believed that his position was strong enough to obviate the need for even implausible deniability.
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660   2018-08-19 08:08  

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