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2016-07-08 The Grand Turk

With the country’s changing political culture, is a Turkish spring in the offing?

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Posted by Fred 2016-07-08 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top
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#1 "Turk(ex)it"?

Posted by Skidmark 2016-07-08 00:43|| 2016-07-08 00:43|| Front Page Top

#2 And a pony --- the only way to dislodge an Islamic government is military coup: like they had in Egypt, or like they used to have in Turkey before Erdogan castrated the military. Hell, the only example I know of an ideologically based government overthrown without military coup is "Perestroika" --- and that was a KGB operation.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-07-08 02:53|| 2016-07-08 02:53|| Front Page Top

#3 grom

In Tunisia in 2014, a govt dominated by an Islamist party was defeated in a parliamentary type election.

Of course that means a 65% Islamist govt became a 30% Islamist govt.

The Revolution from the bottom in Romania in 1989 is an example an ideological collapse.

so there are a few, but its not the general rule

Posted by lord garth 2016-07-08 12:13|| 2016-07-08 12:13|| Front Page Top

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