Spurning Erdogan’s Vision, Turks Leave in Droves, Draining Money and Talent

[TomSea]

Spurning Erdogan’s Vision, Turks Leave in Droves, Draining Money and Talent

By Carlotta Gall

    Jan. 2, 2019

ISTANBUL — For 17 years, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan won elections by offering voters a vision of restoring the glories of Turkey’s Ottoman past. He extended his country’s influence with increased trade and military deployments, and he raised living standards with years of unbroken economic growth.

But after a failed 2016 coup, Mr. Erdogan embarked on a sweeping crackdown. Last year, the economy wobbled and the lira plunged soon after he won re-election with even greater powers. As cronyism and authoritarianism seep deeper into his administration, Turks are voting differently — this time with their feet.

They are leaving the country in droves and taking talent and capital with them in a way that indicates a broad and alarming loss of confidence in Mr. Erdogan’s vision, according to government statistics and analysts.

Read more at: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/02/world/europe/turkey-emigration-erdogan.html

If this "crisis" about leaving Syria has shown us anything, it certainly seems to have exposed the Turks as being someone "untrustworthy".  I'd love to say they are good guys, we are missing something and things like that.

[Sanguine]

No, the Turks under Erdogan are not good guys.

[Fishrrman]

TomSea wrote:
"If this "crisis" about leaving Syria has shown us anything, it certainly seems to have exposed the Turks as being someone "untrustworthy""

The Turks are muslims.
As such, they cannot be considered "trustworthy", and never have been.

[Absalom]

Mustapha Kemal of Gallipoli had a vision which set Turkey free of Ottoman neurosis.
Erdogan is a fraud and a hustler w/fantasies of Al Capone!!!