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Originally Posted by JJ_BPK
It's not like they havn't tried,,and succeded in the past..
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What's worrying me a bit is all the little things I'm hearing about with Turkey, mostly related to ANZAC Day.
I'm blown away at how much hospitality the Turks show to Aussies, Kiwis, and Poms visiting their country to mourn their respective war dead.
Ataturk was a pretty interesting character.
But what worries me(beyond the extremely poor behaviour displayed by some Aussies/Kiwis getting drunk and wearing national flags like frickin' superman on the day) is how Ataturk seems to be getting sidelined in favour of Allah by the Turkish state, and things like the associated Turkish drink Raki(alcoholic beverage) being sidelined as well.
With Turkey's long economy boom(although quite fragile economy for the next chapter of the GFC) it seems like they've gone against the tide of which way to go on the continuum of secularism versus theocracy. They seem to be going the wrong way from what you'd expect.
All I know is I'd like to visit there someday(my paternal grandfather served in the Turkish Army apparently so I've got family there I'd like to meet someday) with my boys after visiting ANZAC Cove.
Anywho…..back on point…..lots of strange stuff happening in Turkey……not least of which the emasculation of the Turkish military's "right to reboot a secular Turkey" when they culled Turkey's senior military leadership a few years back under the current civilian leadership.
Just wild speculation…..but what's the chances the Turks would use a false flag attack as a basis not to get sucked into Syria, but to deal with the semi independent Kurds in Northern Iraq again?
http://oilprice.com/Energy/Crude-Oil...with-Iraq.html
A potentially very profitable security buffer?
Interesting times…..and I'm just throwing out SWAGs
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