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Clipping Erdogan’s wings
2020-11-28
Hope springs eternal.
[AlAhram] This year has marked the beginning of the end of Ottoman Turkish President His Enormity, 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. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important...
’s regional ambitions as well as the end of his political honeymoon with Europe.

In a year that has witnessed a lot of political changes, Ottoman Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has also had much better years in his long political career. This year’s events have not only brought Erdogan’s megalomaniac ambitions in the Mediterranean and the Middle East to a halt but may also have witnessed the end of his honeymoon with Europa
Posted by:trailing wife

#7  This is the first I've read of a Turkish connection to the attempt on JPII. It's always been portrayed as a lone wolf -- insane, maybe a tinge of Islamic motivation, but never connected to anything bigger.

I'll grant they may not have had Turkish government sponsorship back then, but I have little doubt they do now. Erdogan and the AKP need to go.
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2020-11-28 14:02  

#6  ^ Heh
Posted by: Frank G   2020-11-28 12:42  

#5  Don't look like no Grey Wolves to me. More like Red Binder Clip-Heads
Posted by: Dino de Medici7193   2020-11-28 12:40  

#4  Are those uniforms for real? They look silly.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2020-11-28 12:36  

#3  /\ But we have the CUBE ?
Posted by: Besoeker   2020-11-28 08:41  

#2  In late 2016 Ali Ertan Toprak, the leader of the Kurd community in Germany -- having very detailed information on Turkish activity in Germany -- informed Deutschlandfunk public radio that "Imams posted to [Erdogan sponsored] Ditib mosques in Germany are Turkish civil servants. ... And they are also utilized to control the Moslem communities they look after and to report critical remarks to the [Turkish] state," Toprak added, "these are Stasi methods that should not be allowed in Germany," he added, referring to the former East German intelligence service.
On December 5, 2016 in remarks to KNA in Dusseldorf, Ercan Karakoyun, the chairman of a Gulen-related education trust, claimed: "Every imam functions concurrently as an informant for Turkey."
Posted by: b   2020-11-28 08:39  

#1  Smack the Punk
Posted by: Frank G   2020-11-28 06:25  

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