Turkey's Tayyip Erdogan compares Germany's ban on some political rallies to "fascist actions"

[AsianTrumpSupporter]

Merkel says no justification for Erdogan's Nazi comparisons

This Austrian survivor of WW II would probably agree:

 

[theHawk]

That Islamo piece of shit, Erdogan, needs to get kicked out of NATO. We aren't going to war to protect those radical Islamists.

 

[Sunni Man]

Erdogan is a great leader and admired by the Turkish people. ..... ...

 

[American_Jihad]

Is Turkey Lost to the West?

Pat Buchanan
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Posted: Mar 14, 2017 12:01 AM

Not long ago, a democratizing Turkey, with the second-largest army in NATO, appeared on track to join the European Union.

That's not likely now, or perhaps ever.

Last week, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan compared Angela Merkel's Germany to Hitler's, said the Netherlands was full of "Nazi remnants" and "fascists," and suggested the Dutch ambassador go home.

What precipitated Erdogan's outbursts?

City officials in Germany refused to let him campaign in Turkish immigrant communities on behalf of an April 16 referendum proposal to augment his powers.

When the Netherlands denied Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu landing rights, he exploded, saying: "The Netherlands ... are reminiscent of the Europe of World War II. The same racism, Islamophobia, xenophobia, anti-Semitism."

When Turkey's family and social policies minister, Betul Sayan Kaya, drove from Germany to Rotterdam to campaign, Dutch police blocked her from entering the Turkish consulate and escorted her back to Germany.

Liberal Europeans see Erdogan's referendum as a power grab by an unpredictable and volatile ruler who has fired 100,000 civil servants and jailed 40,000 Turks after last summer's attempted coup, and is converting his country into a dictatorship.

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The upshot of all this:

Turkey, a powerful and reliable ally of the U.S. through the Cold War, appears to be coming unmoored from Europe and the West, and is becoming increasingly sectarian, autocratic and nationalistic.

While anti-immigrant and anti-EU parties across Europe may not take power anywhere in 2017, theirs is now a permanent and growing presence, leeching away support from centrist parties left and right.

With Russia's deepening ties to populist and nationalist parties across Europe, from Paris to Istanbul, Vlad is back in the game.

Is Turkey Lost to the West?

 

[Sunni Man]

Turkey hasn't been a part of Europe and the west for several centuries. ....

 

[American_Jihad]

Turkey hasn't been a part of Europe and the west for several centuries. ....