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Turkey's Government Enables Terrorists

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Posted By: FlyRight, 5/27/2024 7:47:25 AM

Turks earning the minimum wage cannot afford their rents, and have difficulty paying utility bills. Many people cannot even afford to buy food, while Erdogan's government has chosen to spend its resources on aggressive wars and cooperation with terrorist groups and regimes in the region such as Hamas, Islamic State (ISIS), the Muslim Brotherhood, Al-Qaeda-affiliated groups in Syria, and the Islamic Republic of Iran. In 2012, the Turkish government reportedly donated $300 million to Hamas as the group set up shop in Turkey. A Turkish nongovernmental organization with ties to the government, the Foundation for Human Rights (IHH) [which also organized the 2010 Mavi Marmara flotilla],

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Reply 1 - Posted by: DiegoDude 5/27/2024 9:23:27 AM (No. 1725756)
Quite a difference from when I was stationed there in 83-84.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: chumley 5/27/2024 9:54:37 AM (No. 1725791)
I spent a couple years there as a teenager, and it was brutal then. Poverty and wealth existed side by side. There were beggars on every block, many of them very old or crippled. We were warned never to "offend the Turks" as you could be at the wrong end of an honor killing. They were nice enough as long as you could do something for them, otherwise they were indifferent or even hostile. Busses and cars shared the roads with horse carts and pedestrians. Traffic signs were just a suggestion. They did have some of the most beautiful women in the world and they dressed European, but they didnt talk to strangers often. Now they like terrorists too? Glad I didnt stay.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: formerNYer 5/27/2024 10:21:04 AM (No. 1725815)
Never trust the Turks.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: bpl40 5/27/2024 10:37:40 AM (No. 1725832)
One way or the other, ALL Muslim countries do.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: DVC 5/27/2024 10:49:00 AM (No. 1725851)
Of course they do. They are Muslims, terrorism is their standard behavior. Islam is a cancer on humanity.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: stablemoney 5/27/2024 10:53:31 AM (No. 1725861)
Turkey can spend whatever it likes. Government deficits don't matter. Ask any left wing nut. Ask Paul Krugman.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: DVC 5/27/2024 1:03:49 PM (No. 1725962)
And Turkey murdered millions of Armenians in the beginning of the 20th century. I have visited Armenia and talked to people who knew relatives who were exterminated. Turkey is an anti-Christian nation, always has been. Armenians are some of the earliest Christians, their church was founded in 300 AD, and their church is still distinct and unique. I attended an Easter service in Yerevan at a 1200 year old chapel that was hidden from Russians by building a warehouse and office complex right around it during Soviet times. Soviets sought out ancient churches and blew them up. They never found this chapel, perhaps 25 by 40 feet in size. In the early 2000s the Armenians tore down the surrounding camouflage buildings, revealing the ancient chapel, intact. Easter service there was pretty special.
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