Turkish Spring ?

[LeftEyeNine]

Lennie or Mouzi explain this for me please, Turkey sits proudly on the first place when it comes to patrol-prices. I don't buy it, and most certainly don't understand it. No way it can behigher than in compact countries like Norway and the Neds, who are two and tree

Taxation is as old as money ?

[Beskar]

Taxation is as old as money ?

Even older than money!

[The Outsider]

Seriously this bloody dictator needs to go. Arresting people for their tweeter messages? having your loyal dogs attack people in the street with machetes? arresting doctors because they were tending to the wounded protestors? using relegion as a shield and a means of provocation? Enough is enough Turkey wont be another Iran (no offence) people will not abonden the secular regime and the revolutions of Ataturk and the republic. So I say Viva La Republic, To Hell With the Tyrants!!!

[LeftEyeNine]

His recent attempts at provocating his "civil" supporters gave fruit. The local shopkeepers around where protests are held grab their bats and sticks to beat protesters. Recently RTE called for the neighbors who are disturbed from the noise that protesters at home do by clinging pots and pans to inform police about that specific neighbor - in other words snitching about them.

By the way oil is 5 TL as of now and both electricity and natural gas have been subject to increase in their prices.

He, whose government's sole pillar they call "economical success" was the hot cash flow through aggressive privatization of state properties and services and the sustaining of such flow via creation of a debt system where getting yourself into credits and credit cards was never so easy -hence the evergrowing banks and their unwavering support for the economical route-, now calls for discarding those "credit cards et cetera". Mister, whole nation is under a blanket of debt which you have encouraged in the first place.

RTE never seemed so clueless and desperate. Although I despise the guy, overall, I don't like the situation - some economic crisis is banging at the door.

[HopAlongBunny]

Thank you for the update LEN

Freedom through finance! This always ends well

[Fragony]

Scary stuff. Erdogan is a very dangerous man.

[Philippus Flavius Homovallumus]

His recent attempts at provocating his "civil" supporters gave fruit. The local shopkeepers around where protests are held grab their bats and sticks to beat protesters. Recently RTE called for the neighbors who are disturbed from the noise that protesters at home do by clinging pots and pans to inform police about that specific neighbor - in other words snitching about them.

By the way oil is 5 TL as of now and both electricity and natural gas have been subject to increase in their prices.

He, whose government's sole pillar they call "economical success" was the hot cash flow through aggressive privatization of state properties and services and the sustaining of such flow via creation of a debt system where getting yourself into credits and credit cards was never so easy -hence the evergrowing banks and their unwavering support for the economical route-, now calls for discarding those "credit cards et cetera". Mister, whole nation is under a blanket of debt which you have encouraged in the first place.

RTE never seemed so clueless and desperate. Although I despise the guy, overall, I don't like the situation - some economic crisis is banging at the door.

Well - the dubious upside is that if your economy tanks your government might change.

The downside is that Erodgen is doing the old Tyrant shtick of creating civil strife to shield his miss-management of the economy. This whole thing is really starting to look manufactured.

[Fragony]

LOL Turkish girlfriend of my sister doesn't understand Ramadan.

https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...ps356a5a3a.jpg

Don't tell her yet but I am going to marry her one day

[LeftEyeNine]

"Whoever the nation points to through ballot box, everybody has to submit to them"

Latest from RTE. And he is complaining about what's going on in Egypt every other day with "democracy"-oriented speeches.

[Rhyfelwyr]

Ex-army chief given life for plot to overthrow Erdogan

As much as Turkey's military should be reigned in, I'm not sure it is happening in the right way or for the right reasons.

[Fisherking]

More one party politics!

[Fragony]

Ex-army chief given life for plot to overthrow Erdogan

As much as Turkey's military should be reigned in, I'm not sure it is happening in the right way or for the right reasons.

Also journalists, writers, academics, 275 total, undermining the state and all that. Not all for life though. Leftists and europhiles were appalled, but maybe mr Wilders was right, and Erdogan is, in fact, a total freak

[Yesugey]

Ah, these protesters are good and well educated people who only react against the RTE governmentns, but they are too foolish to understand that they still live in Middle East.

10 years ago, they support RTE for the name of democracy, and celebrated the arrestment of the generals who intervenes with politics, as "a step to democracy".

They made fun with people say "There is a danger that Turkiye can become like Iran."
They laughed to people who say "There is a danger that Kurdish people will divide the land".
They accused the generals as "You are lying about the true intensions of Over-Islamics and Kurds, because you want to hold the power and money for your own good. If we give Over-Islamics and Kurds freedom and rights, they will even clean the terrorists of their own themselves."

Yea, well, there you have it. Over-Islamics are banning alcoholic drinks day by day. They putting their own men to all parts of the government. Kurds openy support Pkk terrorists, calls it as their own army.

All of these is th fault of the Gezi Protesters. The Gezi protesters are the people who forgot that they are living in middle east, the lands that culturally attached to the brute force.

[Vladimir]

I thought this was an interesting and depressing peice: http://m.gulfnews.com/opinion/how-tu...ends-1.1223309


While Ankara’s foreign policy struggles in the Middle East may have been inevitable, its isolation elsewhere seems self-inflicted