Comments on: Meanwhile, in Turkey…

By: Fred

Fred — Sun, 21 Aug 2016 07:48:40 +0000

ATATURK VERSUS ERDOGAN: TURKEY’S LONG STRUGGLE

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Sat, 20 Aug 2016 18:53:13 +0000

Someone else linked to Gulen’s background, so people who read that, should know in general that Gulen has connections to money and Islamic teachers.

By: LindaF

LindaF — Sat, 20 Aug 2016 16:02:32 +0000

Don’t like Ergodan, but the Gulen group is NOT scholars, as they have been reported to be. Islamicists using their positions as teachers to run what are essentially indoctrination centers – some of them in this country. Also, the Gulen charters use the schools to import their followers into this country, on the grounds that suitable Americans can’t be found to teach in their schools (ridiculous!).
Turkish educational credentials are too often inflated, bought, and meaningless.

By: OM

OM — Sat, 20 Aug 2016 15:00:23 +0000

“Erdogan’s choice over succession mechanisms will shape that future. Even this fact speaks volumes to the one-man regime that Turkey is becoming.”

Burak Kadercan is an Assistant Professor of Strategy and Policy at the United States Naval War College.

from

http://warontherocks.com/2016/08/dynasty-or-collapse-erdogans-choice-and-what-comes-next-for-turkey/

A long article if you have time.

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Sat, 20 Aug 2016 14:22:29 +0000

Islamism is a retrograde force that has now broken out of the ME. Yet those people did not want to admit that the Left was not progressive. In the Iranian revolution, Leftists loved Khomeini and did everything in their power to give Islam power over the people. IN the end, they got purged and had to flee, to places like the US. Where they brought their Leftist "progress" even further. With unmodified Civil Service rules, the Left will proceed unchecked even if Trump wins, harboring as it does in all the interstices of the Federal power structure. Which is also why Trum can't be the Hero Savior of the white nationalists and the Republicans who feel betrayed.

By: Frog

Frog — Sat, 20 Aug 2016 02:14:51 +0000

It is indeed hard to be hopeful about the future. Totalitarianism is afoot over the entire earth. The USA will be its greatest victim, with one foot already in the grave.

Flagrant criminality in the highest echelons of our government, in the White House, Departments of Justice, State, Education, EPA and Hillary. These people don’t need no steenking Constitution. Get Kimberly Strassel’s book, “The Intimidation Game.”

With unmodified Civil Service rules, the Left will proceed unchecked even if Trump wins, harboring as it does in all the interstices of the Federal power structure.

By: J.J.

J.J. — Fri, 19 Aug 2016 23:06:09 +0000

It is hard to be optimistic about the future. In the 1950s some of the Muslim countries (Turkey, Egypt, Iraq, and Algeria come to mind) were becoming westernized and the religion was moderating. Radical Islamic writers and activists began their campaign to re-Islamicize the Muslim world in the 1960s. It’s succeeding.

Although Turkey was never a truly modern country, in 2003 when we invaded Iraq, people pointed to Turkey as a model of what might happen in Iraq after Saddam was deposed. So much for that. Islamism is a retrograde force that has now broken out of the ME. Anyone who doesn’t see this is whistling past the graveyard.

By: Nick

Nick — Fri, 19 Aug 2016 21:34:26 +0000

It’s hard not to be cynical, when you can guess that the most horrible things taking place are never going to make the newswires.

By: miklos000rosza

miklos000rosza — Fri, 19 Aug 2016 20:26:20 +0000

In a terrifying scene in Proust, the lesbian daughter and her lover spit in the face of a framed photograph of the girl’s father, and laugh.

Erdogan and his wretched minions are spitting in the face of Kemal Ataturk, the father of modern Turkey, over and over again, taking the country back into the dark ages of the late and unlamented Ottoman Empire.

I wonder how Orhan Pamuk feels about all this? I wonder if he remains in Istanbul?

By: sri

sri — Fri, 19 Aug 2016 20:04:05 +0000

the link The Mapping Journey Project