19 Dec Turkey’s PM Erdogan faces threat from wounded ally
Its fascinating to see PM Erdogan and the Fethullah Gulen movement having a fall out. This may have the potential to do damage to the PM. The BBC News has a brief report here. Another slightly more detailed report is here. And Euronews has a video report as well.
Vernon
Posted at 14:03h, 19 DecemberAn Islamic scholar as President of Turkey? That would be something.
Gene
Posted at 23:54h, 19 DecemberThat’s precisely what I was thinking!
Merry Christmas everybody.
Praise the LORD.
Gene W.
David W. Lincoln
Posted at 18:09h, 20 DecemberIf the situation can be related to poker, it looks like we have the entrance of a wild card.
One other thing, Joel, what do you think of the coverage of Sky News on the situation? I am profoundly wary of letting the BBC be the voice of Britain. Call it the aftermath of reading “Bias”, “Arrogance” and the other books by Bernard Goldberg.
Joel
Posted at 18:30h, 20 DecemberNot sure David. I’m not familiar with Sky News’ coverage specifically.
David W. Lincoln
Posted at 19:35h, 21 DecemberWell, it looks like they are more open to directing attention, than the BBC, when something is not covered.
http://news.sky.com/
David W. Lincoln
Posted at 19:44h, 21 DecemberThe Jerusalem Post has weighed in
http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Erdogan-blames-international-groups-for-corruption-scandal-that-rocked-Turkey-335727
Vernon
Posted at 03:54h, 22 Decemberhttp://edition.cnn.com/video/standard.html?/video/world/2013/12/21/cnni-live-watson-turkey-graft-probe.cnn&hpt=hp_t3&from_homepage=yes&video_referrer=http%3A%2F%2Fedition.cnn.com%2F
David W. Lincoln
Posted at 20:05h, 22 DecemberBloomberg has weighed in
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-12-20/turkey-will-either-lose-erdogan-or-democracy.html