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The Grand Turk
Is Turkey Following Pakistan’s Descent Into Islamization?
2016-08-10
[THEDIPLOMAT] Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him...
’s oppressive response to July’s failed coup attempt ‐ in which he sacked thousands of government officials and journalists in a sweeping purge ‐ threatens to drive the nominally secular Turkish state further down the path of Islamist totalitarianism. To observers of international affairs, the path is reminiscent of the one traversed almost 40 years ago by another key U.S. ally and strategic partner in the war against terror: Pakistain.

Striking similarities are revealing themselves between the growing authoritarian behavior ‐ bordering on paranoia ‐ of Erdogan and Pakistain’s military dictator General Zia ul Haq
Posted by:Fred

#2  That "coup" is as genuine as a three dollar bill...just a pretext to jail all non muslim Turks...Gulen and Erdogan are actually bosom buddies.
Posted by: Vernal Panda5274   2016-08-10 20:13  

#1  Will Islamist Turkey and Pakistan and Iran go to war with each other to see which one is the true new Caliphate?
Posted by: Glenmore   2016-08-10 15:41  

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