From Fox News an opinion piece ....
" What does Turkey’s destructive president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, have in common with the Saudis, Pakistanis, Iraq’s Sunnis and the conservatives of Germany’s Weimar Republic? They all thought that they could exploit and control fanatics. One might as well try to befriend poisonous snakes.
To his credit, Erdogan initially facilitated the growth of Turkey’s economy. To his discredit, he has all but destroyed Turkey’s democracy, reignited the Kurdish conflict for his own political advantage, suppressed the media, imprisoned opponents on ludicrous charges or concocted evidence, and dismantled the modernizing constitution that was the primary legacy of one of the great men of the 20th Century, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.
And he thrust Islamization upon a country that had been a model of tolerance in the Muslim world.
Erdogan’s version of Islam follows the pattern of the Muslim Brotherhood: subversive, but rarely engaging in deadly violence. It has, in the past, exploited the ballot, rather than relying on the bullet. In Turkey, that meant radicalizing the inherently conservative rural population and the country folk transplanted to the sprawling improvised settlements around Turkey’s major cities. ... "
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http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2016...ys-price-for-trying-to-befriend-fanatics.html
