You see,I know all of this because I am very interested in Turkish affairs.The problem with all of this is that the Turkish nation doesn't say to Erdogan :" Yo! You infested our country with these rats in the first place in your quest for power!".By the time you get to ask these questions to him,the whole state aparatus will be subordonated to him.
Like, i said... i was always against anyone who uses religion.
But Gülenist a.k.a Hizmet Movement was mostly seen positive by Turks prior to these incidents. People saw them as faithful, helping poor people's children to get educated, many schools at abroad seen as trying to spread Turkey's influence around the globe, charities etc....
None knew that, he got such intentions......
But to me Erdoğan is partially at fault. to letting one group to be nested in the state institutions but i don't know, every government in Turkey has done the same thing, all the other parties does the same thing. I dunno.
eah,but you signed some treaties with us (EU) about human rights and all.You just can't play the "leave us alone while we hang traitors" card.It's called a sane foreign policy.
I hope, we will end our EU journey....then we can exchange insults when you try to interfere.
It would be unacceptable for Turkey to reintroduce the death penalty in response to Friday's failed coup, Austrian Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz said in an interview published on Monday before a meeting with his EU counterparts.
"The introduction of the death penalty would of course be absolutely unacceptable," Kurz said in an interview with Austrian newspaper Kurier.
"There must be no arbitrary purges, no criminal sanctions outside the framework of the rule of law and the justice system," Kurz said. "Austria will push at the foreign ministers' meeting ...to set very clear boundaries for Erdogan."
I mean WHO THE FVCK is this guy.....what does he thinks, he is....I would be very happy if our FM goes on to TV and says "suck my dıck, little biatch"......
We will do what's necessary, EU can watch silently or bark from the sidelines.
FYI,cooperation with Russia means Assad stays and a 180 u turn on Turkey's policies until now.
If it's for the benefit of Turkey, so be it.
Your survival in the last 200 years,believe it or not,was tied to Western umbrella against Russia.It was the Anglo-French in the 19th century,than you were lucky Russia got in a civil war in WW1 ,than NATO came.Everyone reading a little bit of history knows that Russia's ambitions extend to the Mediteranean and glorious return of Constantinople.Let's see your partnership unfolding.......I know,you will say "Turkey invincible!"...but it won't hurt a little bit of reading about historical and future geopolitical ambitions of your would be future allies....just in case...
You guys can construct sentences with "if"s....but the fact is, we stand undefeated on Anatolia for 1000 years.
No I can't because history tought us that in these purges it's not only the guilty who suffer.Amid the chaos and cries for revenge,all opposition gets decapitated.
As i said before nobody touched opposition and opposition backs government......what are you talking about ?