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2019-11-06 The Grand Turk
Support for President Erdoğan surges after Turkey's Operation Peace Spring
[DAILYSABAH] Support for President Tayyip Erdogan surged last month after The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
launched Operation Peace Spring in northeastern Syria to clear the PKK's Syrian offshoot the People's Protection Units (YPG) from near its border, a survey by Metropoll showed Tuesday.

Erdogan's approval rating rose by 3.7 percentage points in October to 48%, the survey showed, recording its highest level since shortly after the presidential elections of June 2018, which were held before last year's currency crisis.

His disapproval rate fell 9.3 percentage points to 33.7%, its lowest level since the failed coup of July 2016. Some 18% of participants did not respond to the survey question or said they had no idea.

Four of the five political parties in the Ottoman Turkish Parliament have strongly supported Turkey's operation against the YPG. Only the pro-PKK Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) opposed it.

Posted by Fred 2019-11-06 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ]  Top
 File under: Sublime Porte 

#1 god forbid you speak out against him.
Posted by chris 2019-11-06 09:17||   2019-11-06 09:17|| Front Page Top

#2 There's been much discussion of whether Trump was right to pull out troops so Turkey could get at our (nominal) allies, the Kurds. This is why it was a bad idea. Many posts on this site about how letting Hitler get away with invading the Saar and Sudentenland was a terrible idea and lead directly to his increase in power and eventually WWII. How is this different? Yip-yip is an enemy. Best we start treating him like one.
Posted by Mercutio 2019-11-06 09:23||   2019-11-06 09:23|| Front Page Top

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