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| The Grand Turk |
| An Orwellian nightmare |
| 2015-09-04 |
| [Hurriyet Daily News] President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... has little love lost for Egypt's Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, who he sees as a dictator that ousted the country's democratically elected president in a military coup, and went on to stage-manage an election to give himself the appearance of being a democratic leader. Erdogan is right, of course, because that is exactly what el-Sisi did. El-Sisi can also be expected to stage-manage the two-tier parliamentary elections to be held in October and November. It is unlikely that anyone who is remotely suspected of being a member of the Moslem Brüderbund, for example, will be allowed to contest these elections. It is equally unlikely that liberals who are scathing about el-Sisi's rule will be allowed to do so also. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 how Erdogan can continue to blast at Egypt when he is doing much the same as el-Sisi One major difference between them is al-Sisi seems to genuinely care about his country's future (witness his Christmas visit to a Coptic church for example), while Erdogan is just making a traditional power grab. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2015-09-04 01:29 |
| #1 Must have read on the Net that Putin = Russia desires to set up a FTZ wid Al-Sisi = Egypt??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2015-09-04 00:52 |