Istanbul terror: Turkey’s president pays the price for trying to befriend fanatics

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Istanbul terror: Turkey’s president pays the price for trying to befriend fanatics
Ralph Peters

By Ralph Peters Published June 29, 2016 FoxNews.com
 
Lt. Col. Ralph Peters discusses how to fight terrorism.

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.

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2016/06/29/istanbul-terror-turkey-s-president-pays-price-for-trying-to-befriend-fanatics.html

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Ralph Peters:
"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."

Recep Tayyip Erdogan:
"These descriptions are very ugly, it is offensive and an insult to our religion. There is no moderate or immoderate Islam. Islam is Islam and that's it."
(Source: Milliyet, Turkey, August 21, 2007)

Fishrrman:
Whom to believe?