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2016-08-08 The Grand Turk

Erdogan: ‘We need to build a state starting from scratch’

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Posted by Fred 2016-08-08 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ] Top
File under: Sublime Porte

#1 It was like Ascot Opening Day, showing up is is important.

What's left of the press so dear is here,
But you won't find any queers to near.

Generals gleaming, Yippie steaming
Any second the Generals have to run,
Heart beats, Speed up,
I have never been so keyed up.

Good night Joe, where ever you are.

Posted by Shipman 2016-08-08 00:37|| 2016-08-08 00:37|| Front Page Top

#2 I'll give Erdogan credit for confining his purges to the public sector - he has fired generals, policemen, teachers (including full professors all the way to kindergarden teachers), but he has apparently left the private sector alone.

Posted by lord garth 2016-08-08 05:46|| 2016-08-08 05:46|| Front Page Top

#3 but he has apparently left the private sector alone.

The attacks on businesses and busimess owners and employees just aren't as much announced, lord garth. But Gulen-linked private schools were closed, and all the teachers lost their licences. Gulen-linked newspapers were confiscated, Gulen-linked businesses have been raided and people arrested -- accused of smuggling and organized crime, according to a report a few days ago -- and over $17.5 million seized. And on Thursday President Erdogan promised to cut off the revenues of Gulen-linked businesses because, he said, that is where the Gulenists are strongest.

Posted by trailing wife 2016-08-08 10:21|| 2016-08-08 10:21|| Front Page Top

#4 Long odds but Recip is in a race to the bottom with Maduro of Venezeula.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2016-08-08 10:50|| 2016-08-08 10:50|| Front Page Top

#5 Yet another tinhorn steps up to the plate:
"We will once again make this nation great!
"These losses you are sensing,
"Will respond to a cleansing,
"As we build our pure Islamic State!"

Posted by JHH 2016-08-08 15:37|| 2016-08-08 15:37|| Front Page Top

#6 Two poets in the same thread, hurrah!

Posted by trailing wife 2016-08-08 18:40|| 2016-08-08 18:40|| Front Page Top

#7 Haijaktku

Yippy bustles in
A halal hedgerow, my Queen
Just a spring cleaning

Posted by JHH 2016-08-08 19:16|| 2016-08-08 19:16|| Front Page Top

#8 forty centigrade
and a holiday: Turkey
with all the trimmings

Posted by Goober Forkbeard3911 2016-08-08 19:30|| 2016-08-08 19:30|| Front Page Top

#9 *happy sigh*

Posted by trailing wife 2016-08-08 20:21|| 2016-08-08 20:21|| Front Page Top

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