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Get ready for Erdoğan’s caliphate, Turkey’s ruling party official says

Mar 20, 2015 7:02 am By Robert Spencer

Fuat Özgür ÇalapkuluFuat Özgür Çalapkulu has come under some fire for saying this, but in reality, many (both for and against) have remarked upon Erdoğan’s desire to restore the Ottoman caliphate. That desire also explains why Erdoğan has been slow to move against the Islamic State in any really effective way, despite cajoling from John Kerry and others: he is likely hoping that the Islamic State will weaken or destroy some of his enemies, such as the Kurds, and that he can then move in and reap the benefits of their own renegade caliphate.

“Get ready for Erdoğan’s caliphate, Turkey’s ruling party official says,” Hürriyet Daily News, March 19, 2015 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

The head of a provincial branch of Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has stirred the pot by tweeting that the country should “get ready for the caliphate” of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

Fuat Özgür Çalapkulu, the head of the AKP in the eastern province of Siirt, sent the controversial tweet on March 17, hours after Selahattin Demirtaş, the co-leader of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), said his party “will never let you be president [in a presidential system].”

In his tweet, Çalapkulu said Erdoğan’s opponents had in the past claimed that Erdoğan could not even be a village headman, but in fact he managed to rise to the top of the Turkish state.

“Now they are saying he cannot be president [under a presidential system]. The caliph is coming, get ready,” he added, referring to Erdoğan as “the tall man,” like many of his supporters.

A caliph is a spiritual leader of Islam who claims succession from Prophet Muhammad. The word, stemming from the Arabic khalifa meaning “successor,” has been the focus of much debate since being claimed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).

After his tweet triggered an outcry, Çalapkulu changed the status of his Twitter account to “protected,” ensuring that only confirmed followers have access to his tweets. He also released a written statement on March 19, saying he has a different “perception” of the word “caliph.”…

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Filed Under: caliphate, Featured, Turkey Tagged With: Fuat Özgür Çalapkulu, Justice and Development Party (AKP), Recep Tayyip Erdogan


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  1. john spielman says

    Mar 20, 2015 at 7:12 am

    oh, i

  2. john spielman says

    Mar 20, 2015 at 7:15 am

    SORRY MY NOTE PREMATURELY POSTED. I meant to say I’m sure that the Arabs and Persians will welcome a neo Ottoman empire with open arms (sarc)

    • Avenger says

      Mar 21, 2015 at 9:48 pm

      Excellent point John. Neither will Russia, Greece, The Kurds, Bulgaria, Serbia, or Hungary. The Turks have no friends because they are the lowest of low and have screwed everyone.

  3. Charli Main says

    Mar 20, 2015 at 7:41 am

    Well, this time round the Ottoman Caliphate won´t have to invade Europe.
    Cameron, Merkel and Hollande will put out the red carpet and invite them in.
    After all, just think of all the ” enormous contributions ” 75 million Ottoman Turks will make to European society. Just ask the Muslim Council of Britain´s sock puppet, David Cameron; if in any doubt.

    • Spot On says

      Mar 20, 2015 at 9:51 am

      With EU becoming an Ottoman empire partner, Europe is screwing themselves and B.O. has us on a fast track to copy them…we’re screwed.

      Also with the Fed controlled market ballooned, good jobs scarce, third world illegal work force in place, Muslims moving here by planeloads, Washington now kissy kissy with Iran and hating Israel, and home grown terrorists here, there may be a rough road ahead if anybody even cares to look ahead anymore.

  4. allan carr bryan says

    Mar 20, 2015 at 8:30 am

    And this 2 faced asshole wants to a part of NATO or the EU, I’m not sure which. We cannot trust him!!!!!!

  5. Prinz Eugen says

    Mar 20, 2015 at 8:39 am

    Too many caliphate wanna-be’s! That will only lead to more wars, more beheadings, more burnings, more genocide and an excess of peaceful islamical terror! Can you feel the love and tolerance? Eventually one group will take power, — then Europe and the US will be next on the list.

    The Turks best be booted out of the NATO and never (ever!) be allowed in the EU. How many more times will they be allowed to march into Europe to conquer? Has every nation tossed away its history books?

    Must admit, I do not know if our sultan Barry Sotero wants Erdogan, iran or some other moslem brotherhood punk, to be the caliph! Bit he surely wants that supremacist caliphate for his holy crusaders!@

    • Lookmann says

      Mar 20, 2015 at 10:00 am

      ‘1.The Turks best be booted out of the NATO and 2.never (ever!) be allowed in the EU.’

      1.Possible but not sure whether NATO has the foresight to do it.

      2.Both Germany and Bulgaria already host millions of Turkish Muslims and still are welcoming them.

      It was the present day East Europeans who withstood the barbaric Ottoman attacks and saved Western Europe !

      Now it is ‘open gates’ for the barbarians!

      God save Europe!

  6. mortimer says

    Mar 20, 2015 at 9:35 am

    The preliminaries for a coup d’état are in place…most of the journalists have been imprisoned.

    • Ernie says

      Mar 20, 2015 at 2:14 pm

      Dear Mortimer , many generals of the Turkish army , and policemen are in prison also . You read the signs well !

  7. el-cid says

    Mar 20, 2015 at 9:36 am

    It is because of the failure of the Western world to celebrate its culture and achievements and the electing of apologists and liars like Obama that this kind of movement can go forward in a modern secular democracy like Turkey. If we don’t declare our system as superior, why should they think it is? Obama has been overtly promoting Islam as a system of government.

    Ataturk clearly understood that Sharia Law was anathema to progress, tolerance and democracy. He purged religion from the apparatus of the state and Turkey thrived. 100 years later, all that progress is being systematically reversed. Why?

    This time, the Caliphate will succeed at the Gates of Vienna. The forward positions have already been established throughout Europe and there are no borders or walls to keep them out.

    • Mac-101 says

      Mar 20, 2015 at 9:57 am

      And da BIG QUESTION is why do the ELITES want the destruction of Western Civilization? How are da BIG MONEY Powers to be gonna benefit?

      • Ernie says

        Mar 20, 2015 at 11:25 am

        Dear Mac-101 , the ELITES , BIG MONEY-POWERS need SLAVES . Thus they want everything reeking of democracy or freedom destroyed . It, the ultimate satanistic wet dream of : one world , one leader , one religion , one law , one coin etc. It’s called : THE NEW WORLD ORDER .

    • Avenger says

      Mar 21, 2015 at 12:33 am

      @el-cid
      Ataturk accelerated Sharia in Turkey by eradicating 3,000,000 infidels (Christians) and closing or destroying their churches. This action set his nation back decades in economic development but the putrid nation was rescued by continual military and economic aid from the U.S. and Britain. I don’t want to go into the reasons why because I’m sick of posting them.

      If Turkey does attempts to reform itself as a caliphate it will be destroyed and annexed by its neighbors.

  8. th9joker says

    Mar 20, 2015 at 1:26 pm

    Erdogan should promote his plan with a campaign poster, something like this perhaps?

    http://memedad.com/meme/529227

  9. TH says

    Mar 20, 2015 at 4:30 pm

    I have been expecting that for some time now, and he already has a palace worthy of any Caliph with some 1000 luxurious rooms.

  10. Ed Troy says

    Mar 20, 2015 at 8:39 pm

    I said a long time ago that the “Arab Spring” was going to end badly; as the Arab Winter. I even pointed out the probable “Caliphate”. Erdogan has always been an absolute asshole, and has always been for the rise of Islam over civilized mankind.

    I don’t know what to say other than the fact that civilization must push back against the Muslim hordes of barbarians, of which ISIS is only a recent example. (But, between the Muslim Obambi, the fact that the UN is dominated by 7th century barbarians known as the “Organization of the Islamic Conference”, we might as well just give up. Of course, that means that we must either draw in our legs up and kiss our ass goodbye, or nuke the moronic, barbaric, Muslim nations. I say nuke them.)

    To see some of my comments over the years about these barbarians, see:
    http://howcanpeoplebesostupid.com/worlds-muslims-must-resolve-islamic-state-issue-5058
    http://howcanpeoplebesostupid.com/the-new-libya-be-afraid-be-very-afraid-4089
    http://howcanpeoplebesostupid.com/the-fall-of-gaddafi-the-fall-of-libya-4051
    http://howcanpeoplebesostupid.com/libyas-self-proclaimed-new-leader-and-the-mark-of-the-islamist-3585
    http://howcanpeoplebesostupid.com/egyptian-situation-will-probably-end-badly-with-another-islamic-theocracy-3463
    This is just a sample of what was obvious a few years ago. The situation has only gone from bad to worse.
    Ed

  11. DP111 says

    Mar 21, 2015 at 3:25 pm

    Its exactly 100 hundred years since the Sykes-Picot agreement created the political boundaries of the Muslim world.
    The agreement is now out of date. I believe that we re-visit the ME, but this time not as nation builders but as nation creators.
    First priority is to create two or three Christian nations, along the Med sea. All to be offered EU and NATO membership.

    Turkey is another place thatr needs attention.Turkey was once a Christian country. Now barely 0.1% of the population is Christian. I dont see why it shouldnt be once again. Constantinople is to the Orthodox church what Rome is to the Catholic church.

    Turkey is full of Greek, Roman, and Christian sites, and is really part pf the Western world. It surprises me that the Allies didnt throw the Turks out of Anatolia, after the defeat of the Ottoman empire.

    This intervention will be termed as a Crusade, which we will deny, but in effect that is what it will be. Curiously, Pope Francis has stated that military intervention in the ME is the only way we can save Christians in the ME. Strangely, that was precisely the reason why the original Crusades took place.

    • Myron J. Poltroonian says

      Mar 21, 2015 at 8:34 pm

      As Yul Brynner said in The Ten Commandments: So let it be written, so let it be done.”

  12. Myron J. Poltroonian says

    Mar 21, 2015 at 8:22 pm

    I’ve made this observation now for the past several years. I wasn’t being prescient, just being real. This is the “Nation” whose actions in the name of “The Religion Of Peace” inspired me to pen what I call “Nation Renaming”:

    How about this. Instead of “Nation Building”, after throwing out their terrorist supporting regimes in the Middle East and/or the so called “Tribal Areas”, let us try (preemptive) “Nation Renaming”. Yes! Lets let them be known as “NukeStan” [pronounced: Nuke’-Es-Stan.] (Only until or unless they change their evil ways, of course.) Two or three examples should be enough. If not, then reduce to molten glass those places they hold most dear. (Mecca, Medina, etc. .. .)

    I do have a serious question though: Have you ever stopped to examine why so many of you had the reaction to this thought you just did? The only reason I can come up with is the fear (based on reality) of real world, barbaric, pre-planned violence, committed against civilians where you and other innocents live. You are asking for civil, restrained “reactive defense” towards those who despise you for living and breathing on the very same planet as they. We, in the West, view reporters and artist’s, women and children, Doctors and Nurses, their patients and the elderly, for example, as “hold harmless” bystanders and completely off limits in any combat. The radical terrorists, practicing the “Religion of Peace”, as it is referred to by the politically correct in charge of leading us in this war declared on the West, do not so consider it to be. To Jihadist’s, it is a holy call to arms. A call to subjugate or destroy all nonbelievers. It is a war which has been declared against all of humanity (not just the West) that either does not believe as they do or submit to their will. They only gain strength and power in their world, by our appearance of weakness, and revel in the throat-slitting, baby-killing, Mosque; Church; Synagogue; Temple; Alter desecration and marketplace bombings, as well as the suicide killings of any and everyone in or around such places committed by these vermin who hide behind women’s skirts (or burkah’s (sic)) and set up rocket launchers in or next to Mosques, schools and hospitals, et cetera.

    The only difference between Christianity and Islam (other than the fact that Jesus and Mohammed were about as polar opposite as “Prophets” as one could get) is the fact that Christianity has undergone it’s Reformation during the Age of Enlightenment and Islam has not. And It never will until it’s so-called moderate coreligionists get over their extremely real fear of retribution and scourge the fanatics from their midst. Thus far, unfortunately, they seem “under motivated” to do so. It appears that without a very real consequence for their immoderate inaction, they will remain ineffectively on the sidelines, awaiting to see who will win so they may claim loudly and enthusiastically, they were with them all along. I, for one, intend it to be us and not the barbarians who are on the winning side. As I’ve noted before: “If you want to know what life would be like under a Caliphate, ask an Armenian”.

    Addendum:
    In a recent posting of this commentary I was gently taken to task for conflating Islam with Christianity by someone’s reply, as if I viewed both as being strictly religions only (which Christianity has primarily become since the Reformation), whereas Islam is, strictly speaking, not just a religion, but a Socio-Religious-Political System. I wrote what I did in a manner to try and breach the western mindset’s fog of presumption that, “Everyone basically wants the same things we do, so all we have to do is try to reach out a little harder with kindness to win them over to our “Enlightened” mindset of tolerance.

    This was my response:
    Er, I know all this. I also know that the western mind (developed over the past three to four millennia) is reticent to accept the reality of the middle eastern religio-political thought process and mindset. A process and mindset that has, I might add, been subtly refined on the surface (the “Two Faced” part) but reenforced and ingrained to achieve one goal – total domination – over the past millennia and a half.

    My grandparents on my father’s side came to this country to escape the tender mercies of the Ottoman Empire back around the turn of the last century. They acculturated, had and raised three children here and insisted on speaking only English and practicing American customs (except, of course, for some of the food) in their home. They never taught their children, and my cousins and I never were raised, to hate the sons and grandsons of those who murdered 1½ million Armenians. After all, it wasn’t their fault what their parents or grandparents did. All that changed for me on September 11, 2001.

    There is only one way for this to be over and, as I noted before, I intend for us – Western Civilization – to be on the wining side. What-Ever-It-Takes. Harsh? Yes. Vital? Absolutely!

    • Avenger says

      Mar 21, 2015 at 10:49 pm

      Excellent post Myron and very sobering. We cannot allow ourselves, like Drakken stated earlier, to give muslims any mercy or quarter on the battlefield or to those who are squatting in countries where they live as parasites.
      I do believe we can exterminate them ( in the ME ) without going nuclear. I wouldn’t want the destruction of the natural flora and fauna that would occur using this type of weapon. There are many conventional weapon systems the West could use to accomplish this endeavor but it would have to be a multi nation effort. The exception would be Mecca where an underground nuclear devise would blow a hole so deep and wide that the Red Sea would permanently swallow it.

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