{"id":19204,"date":"2016-03-27T11:01:19","date_gmt":"2016-03-27T16:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=19204"},"modified":"2016-03-27T11:02:08","modified_gmt":"2016-03-27T16:02:08","slug":"could-there-be-a-coup-in-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=19204","title":{"rendered":"Could there be a coup in Turkey?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Could there be a coup in Turkey?<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The situation in Turkey is bad and getting worse. It\u2019s not just the deterioration in security amidst a wave of terrorism. Public debt might be stable, but\u00a0private debt<\/a>\u00a0is out-of-control, the\u00a0tourism sector is in free-fall<\/a>, and the\u00a0decline in the currency<\/a>\u00a0has impacted every citizen\u2019s buying power. There is a broad sense, election results notwithstanding, that President Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan is\u00a0out-of-control<\/a>. He is imprisoning opponents,\u00a0seizing newspapers<\/a>\u00a0left and right, and building palaces at the rate of a\u00a0mad sultan<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0aspiring caliph<\/a>. In recent weeks, he has once again threatened to\u00a0dissolve the constitutional court<\/a>. Corruption is rife. His son Bilal\u00a0reportedly fled Italy<\/a>\u00a0on a forged Saudi diplomatic passport as the Italian police closed in on him in an\u00a0alleged money laundering<\/a>\u00a0scandal. His outbursts are\u00a0raising eyebrows<\/a>\u00a0both in Turkey and abroad. Even members of his ruling party whisper about his\u00a0increasing paranoia<\/a>\u00a0which, according to some Turkish officials, has gotten so bad that he seeks to install anti-aircraft missiles at his palace to prevent airborne men-in-black from targeting him in a snatch-and-grab operation.<\/p>\n

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Pedestrians walk along Istiklal street, a major shopping and tourist district, in central Istanbul, Turkey March 20, 2016, a day after a suicide bomb attack. REUTERS\/Osman Orsal.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Turks \u2014 and the Turkish military \u2014 increasingly recognize that Erdo\u011fan is taking Turkey to the precipice. By first bestowing legitimacy upon imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdullah \u00d6calan with renewed negotiations and then precipitating renewed conflict, he has taken Turkey down a path in which there is no chance of victory and a high chance of\u00a0de facto\u00a0<\/em>partition. After all, if civil war renews as in the 1980s and early 1990s, Turkey\u2019s Kurds will be hard-pressed to settle for anything less, all the more so given the precedent now established by their brethren in Iraq and Syria.<\/p>\n

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Could there be a coup in Turkey? The situation in Turkey is bad and getting worse. It\u2019s not just the deterioration in security amidst a wave of terrorism. Public debt might be stable, but\u00a0private debt\u00a0is out-of-control, the\u00a0tourism sector is in free-fall, and the\u00a0decline in the currency\u00a0has impacted every citizen\u2019s buying power. There is a broad […]<\/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":[13129,2321,3053,1908,818],"class_list":["post-19204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-american-enterprise-institute","tag-coup","tag-public-debt","tag-recep-tayyip-erdogan","tag-turkey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19204","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=19204"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19206,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19204\/revisions\/19206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}