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The Grand Turk
Erdogan's former allies mull formation of new party
2019-03-17
[AlAhram] Turkey’s Erdogan is busy attacking former allies. But will rhetoric alone save him at the polls

Once again, Ottoman Turkish President 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...
dug into his rhetorical quiver, pulled out the word "traitor," and fired it, not at adversaries this time but at former companions with whom he had parted ways. In a recent campaign rally in Tokat, he lashed out against fellow founders and members of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) whom he had cast aside, one after the other, in the course of his quest for autocratic power.
Posted by:trailing wife

#2  Whence commeth the night of the long scimitars?
Posted by: AlanC   2019-03-17 10:58  

#1  "former allies mull formation of new party" and immediately are shocked to discover they have actually been fellow travelers with Gulan.
Posted by: Jomoth Angusock5607   2019-03-17 08:20  

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