{"id":67114,"date":"2016-07-28T06:45:08","date_gmt":"2016-07-28T10:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=67114"},"modified":"2016-07-27T17:13:05","modified_gmt":"2016-07-27T21:13:05","slug":"just-more-of-that-turkish-democratic-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=67114","title":{"rendered":"Just More &#8220;Turkish Democracy&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote the other day about the \u00a0 \u00a0 <del>boneheaded idiocy exhibited by the current gang of fools in DC<\/del>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=67044\"><em>current Administration&#8217;s reaction to the recent failed Turkish coup and its aftermath<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 Well, it looks like the other shoe is about to drop.<\/p>\n<p>Turkey is continuing in it&#8217;s support for &#8220;democracy&#8221;.\u00a0 It appears that the Turkish \u00a0 \u00a0 <del>Sultan<\/del>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has decided to order <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/2016\/07\/27\/turkey-shuts-down-130-media-outlets-after-failed-military-coup.html\"><em>130 media organizations shut down<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 Among those ordered closed were 45 newspapers, 23 radio stations, 16 TV stations, 15 magazines, and 3 news agencies.<\/p>\n<p>But not to worry, friends.\u00a0 We&#8217;re merely &#8220;supporting the democratic government&#8221; of Turkey via supporting \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <del>Sultan<\/del>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 President Ergodan!<\/p>\n<p>That must be the case.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2016\/07\/barack-obama-turkey-coup-225642\"><em>Our POTUS said so<\/em><\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote the other day about the \u00a0 \u00a0 boneheaded idiocy exhibited by the current gang &hellip; <a title=\"Just More &#8220;Turkish Democracy&#8221;\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=67114\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Just More &#8220;Turkish Democracy&#8221;<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[220,9,238],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-floggings-will-continue-until-morale-improves","category-foreign-policy","category-government-incompetence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}