- Turkey’s government would have to prove cleric, Fethullah Gulen’s wrongdoing in failed coup attempt before US could extradite him
- Gulen has condemned attempted coup by military officers in Turkey
- Prime Minister Benali Yildirim said 161 people were killed and 1,440 wounded in the overnight violence and 2,839 plotters were detained
- Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government is blaming chaos on Gulen, who lives in exile in Pennsylvania
- US Secretary of State, John Kerry, said US had no prior indication of coup attempt, which came as Erdogan was on vacation
And close all of his godforsaken muslim charter schools, too. Then start cleaning out those rattlesnake dens of Jamaat al Fuqra.
Obama aligned himself with the Ayatollah when Iranians wanted Democracy, He sided with the Muslim Brotherhood against democracy in Egypt. Obviously his Turkey Islamic radicals will be his choice for support.
In fairness I don’t think they could have said anything else. What Kerry and Obama (and their successors) had better start thinking about is whether Turkey is to be allowed to remain in NATO. Ergodan is a Muslim Fundamentalist (or Islamic Terrorist, take your pick). The reason the coup failed is that for years now Ergodan has stripped the military of any high ranking officers who believed in a secular state with religion on the side so to speak. With those officers replaced with his own he then went after the middle and junior ranks pretty well purging those who weren’t Islamic (remember, Islam is a political movement first and a religion second or fifth or something). He’s been slowly changing Turkey from a once vibrant, western oriented Muslim country with free worship to one that is slowly but assuredly turning into another Iran and the population, like frogs in a slowing heating pot, won’t realize what’s happening until they women wake up in Burqa’s and the men with half grown beards and all the liquor is gone. Those troopers that surrendered are dead meat and in probably the most painful way they can think of to elicit the names of people to purge. I feel for them trying to save their country and failing.
Just further proof that religion and politics should not be mixed, there OR here. Unfortunately that is very difficult to do in an Islamic culture. Turkey and Egypt have had some success with it, but it is a constant struggle, as we can see in this case.
As far as trying to keep Turkey in NATO, I don’t think we have any choice. Turkey is too strategically important to the West to let slip away to the enemy side, and everybody knows it. Especially Putin.
Vietvet, are you claiming that the atheist based governments, like China, Cuba, Venezuela, USSR, etc… are superior to those such as our own based on Judeo-Christian philosophy?
Oh, fuck this shit. What I really want them to consider is INDICTING HILLARY.
@JohnS: If there were an Olympic event called Jumping to Conclusions, you would be a gold medalist. Either that or you are doing some serious tongue-in-cheek trolling. I’m tending toward believing the latter, actually, based on many of your previous provocations on this site.
However, on the tiny chance that you might be asking what for you might constitute a serious question, let me ask you a question in return:
Do you really think that advocating separation of Church and State is the same as promoting an atheist-based Government?
If your answer is no, then your question is stupid.
If your answer is yes, then you are stupid.
No offense intended, of course.
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Personally, I enjoy seeing Erdogan’s public appearances in front of a portrait of Turkish hero Ataturk.
The Ataturk that forced Turkey to catch up a few centuries by adopting a western alphabet and separating the government from that barbaric, regressive ‘religion’.
Gulen is a major buddy of Hillary.
vietvet, good / tu reply, but don’t waste your breath
the guy is like that trick birthday candle you can’t blow out, and stupid can’t be fixed
@:: I still think he’s probably just trolling everyone here. Or else he thrives on rejection.
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