{"id":11958,"date":"2015-09-07T13:32:40","date_gmt":"2015-09-07T18:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=11958"},"modified":"2015-09-07T13:32:40","modified_gmt":"2015-09-07T18:32:40","slug":"powder-kegs-exploding-violence-escalates-in-turkey-yemen-as-mid-east-tips-towards-chaos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=11958","title":{"rendered":"Powder Kegs Exploding: Violence Escalates In Turkey, Yemen As Mid-East Tips Towards Chaos"},"content":{"rendered":"

Powder Kegs Exploding: Violence Escalates In Turkey, Yemen As Mid-East Tips Towards Chaos<\/a><\/h3>\n

On Friday we checked in on two of the world\u2019s most important conflicts: 1) that which is unfolding in Turkey where President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an has effectively granted Washington access to Incirlik (you know, for \u201canti-terror\u201d sorties) in exchange for NATO\u2019s acquiescence to a brutal crackdown on the Kurds as AKP looks to usurp Turkey’s fragile deomcracy, and 2) that which is unfolding in Yemen, where a Saudi-led coalition isfighting to restore<\/a>\u00a0the government of Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi.<\/p>\n

In Turkey, Erdogan has successfully undermined the coalition building process necessitating new elections in November when he hopes the escalation of violence across the country will prompt voters to restore AKP\u2019s parliamentary majority allowing the President to rewrite the constitution and consolidate his power. Journalists are\u00a0being arrested<\/a>, a terror \u201ctip line\u201d has been set up, a 24-hour Erodgan Presidential TV channel is in the works, and the country has, for all intents and purposes, been plunged into civil war with ISIS acting as a smokescreen for Erdogan\u2019s power grab.<\/p>\n

As for Yemen, the Iran-backed Houthis have been driven back by Saudi and UAE troops but the problem, asWSJ noted<\/a>\u00a0last week, is that the ragtag militia in Aden is \u201ca motley group that spans the spectrum from southern secessionists to ultraconservative Salafi Islamists to supporters of al Qaeda.” In other words, it doesn’t seem all that far-fetched to suggest that should restoring Hadi ultimately prove to be impossible, an independent South Yemen could end up falling into the hands of extremists, which would be ironic not only for the fact that it would represent the latest example of US foreign policy gone horribly awry, but also because according to at least one source, the Saleh government – whose fighters are now allied with the Houthis – for years worked with AQP while accepting US anti-terror funding. Notably, were Yemen to split in two, it would also effectively create a permanent Iranian colony on Saudi Arabia’s southern border.<\/p>\n

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Powder Kegs Exploding: Violence Escalates In Turkey, Yemen As Mid-East Tips Towards Chaos On Friday we checked in on two of the world\u2019s most important conflicts: 1) that which is unfolding in Turkey where President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an has effectively granted Washington access to Incirlik (you know, for \u201canti-terror\u201d sorties) in exchange for NATO\u2019s acquiescence […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[8779,3504,441,446,6710,553,6793,655,701,1068,818,819,1174,2773,862,864,901,4318],"class_list":["post-11958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-erodgan","tag-houthis","tag-iran","tag-isis","tag-mohammad","tag-nato","tag-newspaper","tag-propaganda","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-swift","tag-turkey","tag-twitter","tag-us-foreign-policy","tag-volatility","tag-war","tag-war-on-terror","tag-yemen","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11958"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11959,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11958\/revisions\/11959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}