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Turkey’s Erdogan Wants To Crush The Kurds And Recreate The Ottoman World
- Consumed by the need for grandeur, despots tend to share their monstrous plans, then execute them.
Running to be reelected in a race warped in his favor, Turkey’s President Erdogan campaigned by demonizing minority Kurds to create a…
- Newsweek
In troubled times, people worship self-assured leaders, and Erdogan sees himself as the anointed vessel of Ottoman resurrection.
He allowed Islamic State to murder Kurds and unleashed his army on them.
He must and can be stopped.
Kurds, formerly referred to as…