Dr. Can Erimtan
21st Century Wire
Turkey’s first elected President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (aka the Prez) and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin have met on numerous occasions previously, but their recent meeting in Sochi came after a relatively long dry spell with Russo-Turkish relations at sub-zero temperatures.
21st Century Wire says…
One of the top places you can see in Riyadh, as told by its taxi drivers, is ‘Chop Chop Square’ better known as Justice Square, where in the early daylight hours beheadings take place.
On a past visit to the ‘Kingdom’, it was disturbing to find out that only metres away outside Justice Square, a small children’s fairground was set up and ready for operation.
Ladies and gentleman, welcome to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
(MEE) Turkey will not wait at Europe’s door forever and is ready to walk away from EU accession talks if rising Islamophobia and hostility from some member states persist, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told Reuters in a wide-ranging interview on Tuesday.
Here is a visual breakdown of Erdogan’s victory last weekend, that will grant him unprecedented power in Turkey.
Notice a voting pattern across Turkey?
Here is a summary of the components of the referendum as outlined in this Reddit comment (commenter appears to be from Germany)…
With power now consolidated under firmly under his control, Turkey’s Sultan Erdogan wasted no time instructing his proxy rebel army in Northern Syria to begin their campaign to wipe out SDF Kurdish forces.
The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) pose an existential threat to Turkey, more than ISIS ever will, and with the recent referendum in his rear view mirror, Erdogan can now focus forward in his push to prevent any Kurdish state from taking hold in Norther Syria.
(ANTIMEDIA) Turkey — Turkey’s President Erdogan is firing back against those accusing him of trying to become a dictator. From a Reuters report on Monday:
“A defiant Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan denounced the West’s ‘crusader mentality’ Monday after European monitors criticized a referendum to grant him sweeping new powers, won with a narrow victory laying bare the nation’s divisions.”
21st Century Wire says…
With a 51.5% vote and turnout of 25 million voters, President Erdogan claimed victory in Sunday’s referendum. With final results due to be released up to 12 days after Sunday’s referendum, the main opposition Republican Peoples’ Party (CHP) claim that unstamped ballots were given to voters and the recent result must be annulled as a result.
I've been to Turkey a dozen times; I love the country. On my first trip there I was just a kid in a VW camper van on the way to India. But I stayed for a month, visiting parts of the country few tourists ever see. And I've tried tried going back as frequently as possible, always to new parts of the country I hadn't been to-- as well as to Istanbul over and over.
