Turkey’s Slow-Motion Coup d’etat, Türkiye’nin ikinci hükümet darbesi

Spare a thought for Turkey.  Türkiye'yi düşünceye ver. In the months since the July 2016 coup attempt, Turkey has had a second, slow-motion coup.  President Tayyip Erodgan has arrested thousands of journalists, lawyers, professors, soldiers, policemen, prosecutors and university administrators.   This has effectively stopped any opposition. Today, (December 5th) Wikileaks published a cache of over-57,000 e-mails of Berat Albaryrak, Erdogan’s son-in-law.   It is a fascinating look into the workings of the Turkish power elite.  The most shocking allegation to emerge from...

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So We Lost

So we lost. We know now that more than ten-years after the invasion of Afghanistan - it will all end in failure. Like much connected with this odd war, there was no formal announcement, no hauling down of flags, rather the news came last month in a secret report written by NATO officials and leaked to the BBC which says that the Taliban will probably take over once western forces leave the country. The report was, in part, corroborated by the...

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