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Bedrosyan: What’s Next for Turkey?
The April 16 referendum in Turkey—to revise the constitution and grant expanded powers to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan—passed by a slim margin, as 51.3 percent of voters said “Yes” amid claims of significant illegal voting procedures.
Opposition parties have stated that the winning margin of 1.1 million votes was only achieved by the action
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Armenians are the only people in the world who knew and warned that the true nature of Turkey was authoritarian and anti-human rights.
The US, Europe, and Israel have always fooled themselves about Turkey (and Azerbaijan).
Armenians warned them, but they would not listen.
Now the Russians are cozying up to Turkey and Azerbaijan – two countries whose goal is to eventually destroy Russia.
Putin is making a huge mistake, and Armenians will pay the price.
onnik- we, as Armenians have always paid a price for everything.
Raffi, do you really think pigs might still fly . . .
Erdogan has been rattling his anti-democratic, anti human rights for years, but his recent spate of vindictive megalomania has revealed him up for what he is: an authoritarian Islamist. He has been able to get away with his obnoxious behavior because of American’s fetishistic reliance on Turkey’s bases for staging wars in the middle east (incirlik air base being one). When America wakes up to itself, perhaps Erdogan, like Assad, will become relegated to the category of “dictator”.
Turkey is arming itself at an aggressive rate with its own domestic weapons manufacturing. Turkey’s proclivities against its neighbors such as Greece, Cyprus, Syria, Iraq are now backed up by false public announcements about the Lausanne Treaty. The Treaty which defined the borders of modern Turkey states clearly that Turkey gives up all its rights on any islands more than three miles from the Asia Minor coastline, yet Erdogan and the opposition party debate out loud in parliament how to get back 139 (or 132 or just 18) islands supposedly illegally occupied by Greece! This nationalistic frenzy is not going to end well.