The President of Turkey’s dissenters range from a 16-year-old arrested for insulting him to a former Miss Turkey who was punished for sharing a poem critical of the Turkish president. In fact, free speech is now being rebranded as a form of terrorism. It’s part of a troubling pattern in Turkey, where President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is becoming increasingly tyrannical in his Islamization of Turkey.
The Islamization of Turkey under Erdogan has also included a proliferation of the use of Islamic symbols, rally appearances with the Quran, and the expansion of Islamic banking.
In fact, Erdogan’s AKP government entertains ambitions to make Istanbul an Islamic financing hub, according to A-Monitor.
Erdogan also encouraged other state lenders to work toward tripling the Islamic banking share of the market by 2023.
And despite Erdogan being increasingly anti-American, he accused America of intolerance toward Muslims, yet three months ago, he opened a gigantic Ottoman-style mosque in Lanham, Maryland, while churches remain forbidden in Turkey.
Now Erdogan is using the recent coup attempt to claim sweeping new powers for himself; some say that the coup was staged precisely in order to give the tyrannical leader a further grip on power. Erdogan vehemently denies this claim.
“Turkey’s Parliament to Give Erdogan Sweeping New Powers as Crackdown Widens”, NBC News, July 21, 2016:
ANKARA, Turkey — Turkish lawmakers convened Thursday to endorse sweeping new powers for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that would allow him to expand a crackdown in the wake of last week’s failed coup.
Nearly 10,000 people have been arrested while hundreds of schools have been closed in the crackdown. In addition, 58,881 civil service employees have been dismissed, forced to resign or had their licenses revoked as of Thursday.
Turkey’s 550-member parliament is set to approve Erdogan’s request for a three-month state of emergency. Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party account for 317 members in the chamber.
In an address to the nation late Wednesday, Erdogan announced a Cabinet decision to seek the additional powers, saying the state of emergency would give the government the tools to rid the military of the “virus” of subversion. He didn’t specify exactly what the state of emergency would entail.
Under the Turkish Constitution, the emergency measures allow the government to “partially or entirely” suspend “the exercise of fundamental rights and freedoms,” so long as it doesn’t violate international law. Lawmakers can sanction a state of emergency for a period of up to six months…

ICH says
But its all good cos his bum boy obama calls him up
and they have good talks about their kiddies
Dexter L. Wilson says
Pat Robertson was explaining that this coup would not work and it would set the leader up to make Turkey more Islamic to be ready for Ezekiel 38 to be part of the group to gather to attack Israel. We are closing approaching the completing of the End of Days.
john spielman says
he just needs to let his hair grow longer and his mustache narrower to look like his hero Adolf H
K smith says
Kind of like the Enabling Act after the Reichstag fire.
Hindu American says
This was a sham. The coup did not fail. It succeeded. This was Erdogan’s staged “reverse coup” against the secular bureaucracy which was made to look as if it was against him. This way he managed to get rid of most if not all opposition, and consolidate all legislative and administrative powers. He already has the army’s backing. Oh, those that were killed or arrested are just statistics and pawns in Erdogan’s scary game of chess.
Hitler played this game, too.
Wait till Erdogan demands (and gets) recognition from the EU parliament and the weak-kneed euro-liberals.
Atheist kaffur says
100 % correct this was Erdogan’s false flag the gift rom allah. The new sweeping powers is the other dead give away this will not end well.
Hamit says
99% correct.
I agree on everything you say as a Turkish citizen.
However there is a 1% chance that the coup was planned by not his rival enemy GULEN but the KEMALIST forces, which were raised by ATATURK (THE great Turk who established Turkey and modernised the country) unfortunetly the arabic mix roots the 49% of Turkey is getting stronger everyday.
Using ISLAM to brainwash people with lack of intelligence they are succeding.
Erdogan is a war criminal and he needs to stopped!
Free Turkey…
Angemon says
Eat your heart out, Obama.
Aspy says
Aahh! The monster starts to grow horns.
Watch out all non-believers.
Champ says
Erdogan could even look more like Hitler if he shaves the sides of his mustache. Seems he wants to go down in history as a ‘Man Worse Than Hitler’ ..and he just may achieve that.
“Nearly 10,000 people have been arrested while hundreds of schools have been closed in the crackdown. In addition, 58,881 civil service employees have been dismissed, forced to resign or had their licenses revoked as of Thursday.”
Of the 10,000 people arrested, I wonder how many Erdogan hopes to execute? As many as he can!
Champ says
…hopefully Erdogan will NOT achieve that goal!
umbra says
erdogan also wants to remove sufficient opposition in the turkish parliament to affect changes to the turkish constitution. It may only be a matter of time before he removes or arrests some opposition members of parliament to get his 2/3 majority.
Jack Diamond says
There are also 90 B61 nuclear bombs at Incirlik Air Base. Another wonderful ally.
umbra says
These weapons should have been pulled out years ago. erdogan’s turkey is unstable and unreliable for stationing nukes.
berserker says
I could not care less about Turkey. People appear to want Erdogan. They can have him. Let them have their Islamic paradise. I simply want Turkey out of NATO and the EU.
billybob says
This is really bad news. The world does not need yet another Islamic state.
citycat says
I don’t either way if Erdogan created the attempted coup, but he sounded very upset over the death of his friend.
خَليفة says
Wonder if he didn’t plan the whole thing, just to have an excuse to expand his powers. This wouldn’t be the first time a dictator has done such a thing.
Kufar says
Erdogan’s behaviour is straight out of the muslim potentate’s handbook. I suspect his ultimate goal is to re-establish the ottoman caliphate with him as it’s blood soaked ultimate authority
Mirren10 says
”Under the Turkish Constitution, the emergency measures allow the government to “partially or entirely” suspend “the exercise of fundamental rights and freedoms,” so long as it doesn’t violate international law. Lawmakers can sanction a state of emergency for a period of up to six months…”
I’ll bet Obama is wishing he had the same chance as his BFF Erdogan …
Doesn’t he ask him for advice on how to bring up his daughters ? I shudder to think what advice *that* would be.
Angemon says
Something involving a rusty can lid, black garbage bags and forced marriages, I’d wager.
WorkingClassPost says
I can’t credit erdog with the guts or the intelligence to start the coup, but he has certainly capitalised on it big time.
In one respect it’s a setback, because there was obviously a large movement building up against him and islamism which is now being squashed, but the whole world knows it and cannot/will not cover for him anymore.
It’s also a lesson for any of our institutions that believe islamic states can be democratic and trusted – forget it.
Freedom and democracy have no place in islam: lesson one.
Islam has no place in a free and democratic system: lesson two.
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SuchindranathAiyerS says
Erdogan promoted himself to Mahdi (Allah incarnate) from Caliph in 2015. His powers temporal will be truly Islamic now. With gang rapes, massacres, beheadings, sex slavery and so on as demonstrated by Mahomet on the Benni Quraisa at Mecca and celebrated in the Quran and the Hadiths as the very prototype of Islam.
Pal says
Turkey’s secret pact with Islamic State exposed by its operative behind wave of ISIS attacks: The elephant in NATO’s room: state-sponsorship of Daesh:
https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/turkeys-secret-pact-with-islamic-state-exposed-by-operative-behind-wave-of-isis-attacks-6b35d1d29e18#.y6qs9otmd