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The Grand Turk
Sultan Erdogan: Invincible and Doomed
2018-06-27
Doomed? What a lovely thought.
[American Thinker] By far the most interesting thing about Sunday's Turkish elections was the endless speculations by pundits left and right about what would happen if Recep Tayyip ErdoÄŸan were to lose. These clueless if numerous pontificators forgot to ask themselves a simple question: when was the last time an Islamist dictator in full control of state power lost an election? Mindless as they are, these idle meditations have little to tell us about Turkey but a lot about the West's (and Europe's, especially) failure or unwillingness to understand what ErdoÄŸan is and is all about. For NATO and the West, the inevitable harsh payment due is just around the corner.
Eviction?
In the meantime, Turkey has a new sultan who can and will do whatever he seemingly wants – except that the time of sultans is long past, and this one is preprogrammed for failure.

In the old Ottoman days, upon the anointment of the new sultan, all male pretenders were dispatched with a silken cord. Now they are simply put in jail as "terrorists." In the old days, all the sultan had to do was run to the largely ignorant ulema to be told why introducing the printing press is a great sacrilege, but it took centuries for the empire to become the "sick man of Europe" and a technological and military anachronism. Today, the sultan is forced to dispatch his flunkies to the captains of finance in London to explain why raising the despised interest rates sharply will calm the markets and to plead for continued funds flow.
Posted by:Frank G

#1  also Erdogan put huge numbers of productive people in prison for imaginary crimes

also Erdogan has started putting military forces in Syria, Qatar and even in Somalia
Posted by: lord garth   2018-06-27 12:58  

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