It's funny how the media was far more outraged by the supposed attempt by the Turkish military to restore the republic than by the Islamist tyrant's escalating crackdown which has now seen 10,000 arrested. That's war crime level detentions. If the Turkish military had done this, they would be screaming their heads off. Yet 10,000 arrests by Islamists, just like the Muslim Brotherhood's torture and abuses in Egypt, get a pass.
And that has to change.
Turkey is swiftly turning into an actual totalitarian regime with no holds barred.
Turkey entered its second day under a state of emergency as President Recep Tayyip Erdogan signaled that the three-month period approved by parliament may not be enough to complete a purge of those responsible for last week’s failed coup.
Erdogan told Reuters that there’s no obstacle to extending emergency rule, which took effect at 1 a.m. on Thursday and was later endorsed by parliament. It allows the government to issue decrees with the force of law, and detain suspects for longer periods without trial.
And then the emergency rule will just be made permanent and Erdogan will declare himself a sultan. All of this is happening with the complicity of the US and the EU. And I don't just mean the radical left.
Too few, even Republicans, were willing to come out against the Arab Spring or to back the Egyptian military's restoration of the government. That's why Trump's mention of it in his acceptance speech was important. We should have backed the Turkish military to the hilt. And by "us" I don't mean Obama, who has never met an Islamist Jihadist he didn't love, but Republicans and conservatives.