{"id":17653,"date":"2016-02-11T13:00:28","date_gmt":"2016-02-11T18:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=17653"},"modified":"2016-02-11T13:03:41","modified_gmt":"2016-02-11T18:03:41","slug":"turkeys-revival-of-a-dirty-deep-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=17653","title":{"rendered":"Turkey\u2019s Revival of a Dirty \u2018Deep State\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Turkey\u2019s Revival of a Dirty \u2018Deep State\u2019<\/a><\/h3>\n

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Turkey\u2019s embattled President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is resurrecting the \u201cdeep state\u201d alliance of secret intelligence operatives and extreme rightists that he so notably challenged just a few years ago while putting hundreds of military officers and other opponents on trial for conspiring against Turkish democracy. In a remarkable about-face, Erdogan is now emulating the ruthless tactics of previous authoritarian rulers at the expense of Turkey\u2019s evolution as a liberal state.<\/p>\n

Like many of his secular predecessors, Erdogan has reverted to waging an all-out war against radical Kurdish separatists, the PKK. He is dramatically expanding the once discredited National Intelligence Agency, which in years past recruited Mafia criminals and right-wing terrorists to murder Kurdish leaders, left-wing activists and intellectuals. And he appears to be forging an alliance with ultranationalist members of the National Action Party (MHP), who supplied many of the ruthless killers for those murderous operations.<\/p>\n

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Turkish President Recep Erdogan.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

These developments should alarm U.S. and European leaders. They are ominously anti-democratic trends in a country that once promised to meld the best of Western and Near Eastern traditions. They are also helping to drive Turkey\u2019s\u00a0secret alliances<\/u><\/a>\u00a0with Islamist extremists in Syria and its\u00a0violent opposition<\/u><\/a>\u00a0to Kurdish groups that are leading the resistance to ISIS in that country.<\/p>\n

Erdogan successfully cultivated a democratic image after his moderate Islamic party, the Justice and Development Party (AKP), gained a two-thirds parliamentary majority in the November 2002 elections. Then in 2008,\u00a0with public support for his party sagging<\/u><\/a>, Erdogan oversaw the\u00a0mass indictment<\/u><\/a>\u00a0of more than 200 former military officers, academics, journalists, businessmen and other opponents of the AKP.<\/p>\n

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Turkey\u2019s Revival of a Dirty \u2018Deep State\u2019 Exclusive:\u00a0NATO keeps backing\u00a0Turkey, one of its members, despite its aid to the Islamic State and other jihadists fighting\u00a0Syria\u2019s secular government \u2014 and even though\u00a0Turkey\u2019s erratic President Erdogan\u00a0may be leading NATO into a risky showdown with Syria\u2019s Russian allies, writes Jonathan Marshall. Turkey\u2019s embattled President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is […]<\/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":[8253,6963,199,204,1239,446,447,7430,474,3153,1908,818,12330],"class_list":["post-17653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-akp","tag-consortium-news","tag-deep-state","tag-democracy","tag-is","tag-isis","tag-islamic-state","tag-jonathan-marshall","tag-kurds","tag-pkk","tag-recep-tayyip-erdogan","tag-turkey","tag-turkish-national-intelligence-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17653","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=17653"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17657,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17653\/revisions\/17657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}