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turkey is not even a democracy anymore:
Akyol recounts how in the days leading up to the election, “staunchly pro-government figures” fired the editors-in-chief of Bugun and Millet dailies, and Kanalturk and Bugun TV channels, while Koza Ipek Holding, which owns Ipek Media, was placed under some form of a government trusteeship.
On Oct. 24-25, the Turkish Armed Forces attacked the People’s Protection Units (YPG) in Syria, which Erdogan links directly to the PKK, for allegedly infiltrating a Turkish red line across the Euphrates River in Syria. As Fehim Tastekin reports, “The critical question now is what Ankara hopes to achieve by fueling the tension. If the YPG returns fire, the government could hit three birds with one stone: It could claim to the international community that the PYD/YPG is a terror organization and in that way try to prevent the PYD [Democratic Union Party] from opening offices abroad. It could also use it to obstruct US and Russian cooperation with the YPG against IS. It could also try to influence Turkish public opinion by delivering a massive blow to the HDP [Kurdish-led Peoples' Democratic Party] because of its support of the autonomy movement in Syrian Kurdistan. To prevent this scenario, the Syrian Kurds will have to keep their cool and act rationally.”
Read more: http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/orig...#ixzz3qH9aWO00
talking then hiding behind NATO and Saudi dollars
