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Turkey’s President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan has lashed out at Egypt’s President Sisi, describing him as a murderer. Showing utter contempt for Sisi’s government, he described it as a regime.
“As for the president of the Egyptian regime. Don’t ever speak about us! You are a murderer of democracy in your country. You are a murderer!”, Erdogan thundered while addressing supporters over Turkey’s military operation in Syria.
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Boris Johnson’s paternal great-grandfather was Turkish activist Ali Kemal of the Ottoman Empire.
English, German and French also run in his veins. In fact, one of his German ancestors was said to be the illegitimate daughter of Prince Paul of Württemberg and thus a descendant of King George II of Great Britain.
US President Donald Trump has threatened to destroy Iran if it ‘threatens the US again’.
Does he mean he will fire a nuclear bomb at Iran? I don’t think he can do that, because of the political fallout such an action will bring on.
Israel, Saudi, Turkey Won’t
A passage I read from an article in the Wall Street Journal reminds me of the old Erdogan. I am talking of the Erdogan that had zero problems with the European Union.
Then, the most important goal of Turkey seemed to be to join the EU:
At the start of his national political career, Mr. Erdogan cut a more accommodating figure. When he became prime minister in 2003, Turkey was two years into a bailout plan run by the International Monetary Fund, receiving billions of dollars of loans in exchange for implementing the fund’s recipe of fiscal and budget rigor.
Carrying out the remaining IMF measures, Turkey reaped the benefits with lower inflation and a jump in exports, becoming a darling of emerging-market investors. Europeans greeted Mr. Erdogan as a strategic partner and, in December 2004, the European Union formally granted Turkey the right to begin accession talks, kicking off large aid and investment programs.
At a conference around that time at the European Parliament, Franco-German lawmaker Daniel Cohn-Bendit walked up to the Turkish leader, video of the meeting shows. “Mr. Erdogan, I have a present for you,” the lawmaker said, handing him a coin. “The first euro in Turkish.”
With the flow of money, Turkey became a construction site, as Mr. Erdogan, who had developed a penchant for infrastructure projects when he was Istanbul’s mayor in the 1990s, launched train, highway and bridge projects. Istanbul’s skyline, which counted 19 high-rises when he became prime minister, now has 98, according to the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, a Chicago-based nonprofit.
In 2007, his honeymoon with the EU took a hit. Several European leaders, such as then-President Nicolas Sarkozy of France, publicly said they would veto Turkey’s membership to the bloc.
In 2008, the IMF assistance program expired. Mr. Erdogan minimized the fund’s role, instead crediting his own stewardship for Turkey’s economic miracle and vowing to follow his own course.
Today, Turkey is threatening to flood the EU with refugees amid bitter back and forths. Today, Turkey, a NATO member, feels more comfy buying missile defence systems from Russia than from NATO countries. Is Turkey still a Western-oriented country?
No. Turkey, like Russia, can’t be a FULL European country. Turkey’s place is as a Eurasian giant. That’s Turkey’s true self.
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