Re: Coup in progress in Turkey
I would suggest Erdogan is more Putin than Mullah Omar. Consensus seems to be that this guy is more interested in autocracy than theocracy, though elements of the latter may well feed into the former. The discourse of secularist-vs-Islamists seems to have run it’s course in Turkey. It’s something different now.
It’s so strange, the reaction to the coup is so strikingly similar to the usual outcome of a revolution…purges and mass arrests. A few days ago, I was willing to give him the benefit of the doubt. But this net he cast is just way too wide.