Turkey's last hope dies Published July 16, 2016 FoxNews.com Friday night’s failed coup was Turkey’s last hope to stop the Islamization of its government and the degradation of its society. Reflexively, Western leaders rushed to condemn a coup attempt they refused to understand. Their reward will be a toxic Islamist regime at the gates of Europe. So a great country is destroyed by Islamist hardliners before our eyes—and our president praises its “democracy.” That tragically failed coup was a forlorn hope, not an attempt to take over a country. Turkey is not a banana republic in which the military grasps the reins for its own profit. For almost a century, the Turkish armed forces have been the guardians of the country’s secular constitution. Most recently, coups in 1960, 1971 and 1980 (with “non-coup” pressure in 1997) saw the military intervene to prevent the country’s collapse. Each time, the military returned the government to civilian rule as soon as that proved practical. Friday night, mid-grade officers led a desperate effort to rescue their country again. They failed. The West cheered. Soon enough, we’ll mourn. So who is the man our own president rushed to support because he was “democratically elected?” Recep Tayyip Erdogan is openly Islamist and affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood. With barely a murmured “Tut-tut!” from Western leaders, Erdogan has dismantled Turkey’s secular constitution (which the military is duty-bound to protect). Erdogan has packed Turkey’s courts with Islamists. He appointed pliant, pro-Islamist generals and admirals, while staging show trials of those of whom he wished to rid the country. He has de facto, if not yet de jure, curtailed women’s freedoms. He dissolved the wall between mosque and state (Friday night, he used mosques’ loudspeakers to call his supporters into the streets). Not least, he had long allowed foreign fighters to transit Turkey to join ISIS and has aggressively backed other extremists whom he believed he could manage. And his diplomatic extortion racket has degraded our own military efforts against ISIS. That’s the man President Obama supports. And the leaders of the ill-fated coup? What did they stand for? Mustafa Kemal Ataturk’s legacy and a secular constitution. One of the great men of the last century, Ataturk (an innovative general by background) pulled Turkey from the wreckage of World War One, abolished the caliphate, suppressed fanatical religious orders, gave women legal rights and social protections, banned the veil, promoted secular education for all citizens of Turkey, strongly advocated Westernization and modernization…and promoted a democratic future. The officers who led the collapsed coup stood for all those things. President Obama and Secretary of State Kerry opposed them. By Saturday morning, it was clear that the mullahs and mobs behind Erdogan had won. Erdogan will use the coup as an excuse to accelerate the Islamization of his country and to lead Turkey deeper into the darkness engulfing the Muslim world. http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2016/07/16/turkeys-last-hope-dies.html Looks like The islamic caliphate has truly returned and will be a bigger theeat than ISIS could ever be.
Why would anyone be surprised that Obama supported an islamist and muslim brotherhood thug? He installed them in Egypt and was fit to be tied when the military kicked their sorry asses out.
Obama himself is a "Leftist, Islamist, muslim brotherhood terrorist thug".... a "wolf in sheep's clothing" from day one. America needs to wake up to that fact.
Now we know why obama took Erdogan's side. Erdogan Unleashes Unprecedented Crackdown: Fires All University Deans; Suspends 21,000 Private School Teachers Zero Hedge, by Tyler Durden Original Article Posted By: KarenJ1- 7/19/2016 12:23:40 PM Post Reply Over the weekend, after the initial reports of the purge unleashed by Erdogan against Turkey´s public, we previewed the upcoming, far more dangerous counter-coup as follows: "it was the next step that is the critical one: the one where Erdogan - having cracked down on his immediate military and legal opponents - took his crusade against everyone else, including the press and the educational system." Doing the things obama dreams of doing. Total dictatorship. Islamic state.
In reality, Obama is one of the more down to earth, decent American presidents you've had, and you are a raving lunatic.
As opposed to George W. Bush Sr. or Ronald Reagan ? Do we really need to go over US funding of various regimes since 1980 ? Are you not aware that the US in their overzealous plan to confront the "communist threat" often meant funding guys like Saddam Hussein or Bin Laden ? Obama has actually tapered off military aggression, a welcome change from the usual American military habits.
You should just stick to calling people racists. I don't think foreign policy is your forte. Iraq was a Soviet client state. That's why all their military gear was Soviet-supplied. Obama has pretty much destroyed the middle east. He tried to destabilize Egypt, he overthrew Khaddafi in Libya and created a failed state, leading to refugees and ISIS. He meddled in Syria, leading to a bloody civil war and many more refugees. Iraq was under control when he took office. Now it is bordering on being a failed state.