{"id":67044,"date":"2016-07-25T06:45:40","date_gmt":"2016-07-25T10:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=67044"},"modified":"2016-07-25T06:16:54","modified_gmt":"2016-07-25T10:16:54","slug":"so-were-supporting-democracy-in-turkey-yeah-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=67044","title":{"rendered":"So, We “Supported Democracy” In Turkey? Yeah. Right."},"content":{"rendered":"

Headline pretty much says it all:<\/p>\n

Turkey seizes more than 2,200 institutions
\nas post-coup crackdown intensifies<\/i><\/a><\/center> 
\nMany of the institutions seized were “social, educational or health-care institutions and facilities”.\u00a0 The stated reason for seizing them?\u00a0 “National security.”In a related matter, Turkey has announced it will hire 20,000 teachers<\/a><\/i> to replace those fired in purge which followed the coup’s failure.\u00a0 During that purge, a total of 13,000 have been jailed; more than 50,000 have been fired from all fields of employment because of being suspected “coup supporters”.<\/p>\n

Oh, and did I mention that 62 of those arrested for treason in Turkey are schoolchildren between the ages of 14 and 17<\/i><\/a>? Or that they’ve issued arrest warrants for 42 journalists<\/i><\/a> linked to a Turkish expatriate living in the US who opposes the current Turkish regime? Well, yeah – both of those are true too.<\/p>\n

But don’t worry.\u00a0 According to the current \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 gang of feckeless, naive idiots running US foreign policy<\/del>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Administration, that’s just the Turkish democratic process at work. Hell, it must be – the President publicly pledged to “support the democratically elected government of Turkey”<\/i><\/a> after the coup failed.<\/p>\n

Meet the new boss
\nSame as the old boss<\/i><\/p>\n

“Democractic process” my ass.\u00a0 Here, the “old boss” referenced had the title “Sultan”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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