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| The Grand Turk |
| Erdogan's political catharsis |
| 2015-09-17 |
| [Hurriyet Daily News] Addressing a group of international ombudsmen in Ankara on Sept. 16, President Tayyip Erdogan tried to assure ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's "Western friends" that the country is a democracy, not an autocracy. He said he wanted to underline this because people who want to undermine Turkey's march toward an "advanced democracy" are trying to "manipulate" reality to create an adverse impression. Erdogan particularly mentioned the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which has resumed its acts of terror after a pause of three years, as well as the "parallels" (meaning sympathizers of Fethullah Gulen, an Islamist ideologue living in the U.S.) and their "extensions" in politics, media and elsewhere. That statement came one day after an Istanbul prosecutor opened an investigation into the Dogan Media Group, (to which Hurriyet, the Hurriyet Daily News and CNN Turk also belong), on claims of "promoting terrorism" based not on any hard evidence but based on fabricated news recently published by a staunchly pro-government newspaper. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 TL;DR - "please look over there (not at me) so I can consolidate power with thuggery and impose Islamism via manipualted voting and mob rule." |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2015-09-17 15:31 |
| #1 ... tried to assure everyone |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2015-09-17 09:59 |