“Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit,” says Yahweh Sabaoth. (Zechariah 4: 6)
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The Atlantic—Erdogan Is Dividing Turkey Against Itself:
Since 2003, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been a guiding light for the ascendant global class of anti-elite, nationalist, conservative leaders. And all along, he has played the political underdog, rallying support by demonizing those who oppose him. Just weeks ahead of a constitutional referendum that, if passed, would further consolidate his authoritarian grip on the country, he has even taken to internationalizing this strategy, lashing out at various European leaders as “Nazis” for criticizing him.
It may be a reasonable gamble from his perspective; after all, it has brought him success in the past. He has boosted his popularity by relying on a steady supply of domestic adversaries to cast as the latest “enemy of the people.” But this has also polarized his society to such an extent that even the security services, the traditional bulwark of Turkish unity, have become politicized and weakened at a time when the country faces violence on multiple fronts—along with the implosion of Turkey’s relationships in Europe. Amid a divisive campaign ahead of the April 16 referendum, terrorist groups ranging from the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) to the Islamic State exploit these divisions to turn Turks even more bitterly against each other.
Today, as evidenced by surveys measuring expected support for Erdogan in the referendum, Turkey is about evenly split between pro- and anti-Erdogan factions: the former, a conservative right-wing coalition, believes that Turkey is a paradise; the latter, a loose group of leftists, secularists, liberals, Alevis (liberal Muslims), and Kurds, think they live in hell.
For years, Turkey’s vaunted national-security institutions, including the military and the police, had helped the country navigate its perilous political fissures, first in the civil war-like street clashes pitting the left against the right in the 1970s, and later in the full-blown Kurdish nationalist insurgency and terror attacks led by the PKK in the 1990s. However illiberal and brutal their methods, including several coups d’état and police crackdowns, the military and police kept Turkey from imploding. But this has changed since Erdogan’s unprecedented purge of the security services in the aftermath of the failed coup of July 15.
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SnyderTalk Comment:
Saying that Turkish President Erdogan is divisive is an understatement. At home and abroad, he is fomenting anger and mistrust. All the while, he is moving aggressively to establish himself as the heir apparent to Saladin.
It’s also fair to say that Erdogan has a gigantic ego, and what better place to house it than a gigantic palace. The one that Erdogan built for himself at the Turkish people’s expense cost almost $800 million.
It’s a palace fit for a sultan. Actually, it’s bigger and more lavish than the real Sultan’s Palace in Istanbul. I’ve been there and seen it inside and out. The Sultan’s Palace doesn’t compare to Erdogan’s palace.
Below is a video that provides interesting insights on the house that Erdogan built:
I bring this up to make a point. President Erdogan’s opinion of himself knows no bounds. He is determined to make his name great for all time and take his place alongside the greatest names in the history of the world. Nothing can stand in his way, or so he thinks.
This is no small matter. In the process of trying to realize his ambitions, Erdogan can lead the world into chaos. He’s well on his way to doing that already.
In the past, I’ve compared Erdogan to Hitler. It’s warranted.
People of Turkey, beware of the danger in your midst.
Switching Gears
See “10 killed in explosion on Saint Petersburg subway”:
Some 10 people were killed Monday in an explosion on the subway in Saint Petersburg, Russian authorities said.
President Vladimir Putin, who was visiting the city on an unrelated trip Monday, said investigators were looking into whether the explosion was a terror attack or if there might have been some other cause. He offered his condolences to the families of those killed.
Now see “St. Petersburg subway blast: At least 10 killed, security camera could hold clues”:
A bomb blast on a subway train in St. Petersburg, Russia, killed at least 10 people and wounded some 43 others Monday, Russian officials said, as police urged people to be on the lookout for possible suspects in the apparent terror attack.
One of the blasts came from a device filled with shrapnel, Sky News reported. An unexploded device turned up at a different subway station rigged with shrapnel and up to 2.2 pounds of explosives, according to the Interfax news agency.
I don’t know if this was a terrorist attack or not, but it sure looks like one. Whatever the case may be, when you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas. Putin should know that.
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“If My people who are called by My Name humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, will forgive their sin and will heal their land.” (2 Chronicles 7: 14)
Change that Yahweh calls “good” begins in the hearts of believers—people who are recognizable because they are different.
We are different because we belong to Him and are called by His Name. We are Yahweh’s people, His followers.
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“The glory which You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one, just as We are one; I in them and You in Me, that they may be perfected in unity, so that the world may know that You sent Me, and loved them, even as You have loved Me. Father, I desire that they also, whom You have given Me, be with Me where I am, so that they may see My glory which You have given Me, for You loved Me before the foundation of the world.” (John 17: 22-24)
See “His Name is Yahweh”.
