why is the west now silent about turkey

dave3974: Where are the strong voices from Western capitals calling for restraint and moderation in Turkey? Where are the major literary figures and actors denouncing what look very like gross violations of the rule of law and due process, threatening free expression? Why isn’t opposing repression in Turkey a fashionable cause? It’s not that far away, and a lot of us know it quite well.

What is happening there is distressing and frightening, and not permissible in any nation considered to be part of the civilised world. How is it possible, so soon after a failed putsch (conducted, I might add, with amazing incompetence), for the authorities to possess and act on such long lists of suspects?



Whatever the Saturday coup was, fake or real or a mixture of the two, what we are seeing now is a genuine seizure of absolute power.



What protections do these suspects have? Where are the ‘Human Rights’ we are always making such a fuss about in other places whose governments we are not so scared of? People even talk as if it is true that ‘democracy’ and ‘the ‘rule of law’ have been *saved* in Turkey by the defeat of the putsch. Have they? Neither looks very healthy to me just now. How long before a snap election, its polling stations patrolled by chanting angry Islamist mobs, and its campaign reported on by a slavish pro-Erdogan media, gives Mr Erdogan the super-majority he needs to become Executive President, the post he has always longed for?

ghostgeek: Turkey shows what happens when an Islamist party gains power via democracy. The only way to remove it is by force.

Nobody cares about what is happening in Turkey for two reasons. They have the second largest army in NATO, and they have done a deal to stop refugees flooding into Europe.

It is pragmatism in action.

dave3974: never trust an islamic politician

ghostgeek: That much is true.

briansmythe: Where are all the actors and literary figures ? who do they think they are the moral police,
Its like any group who jumps on the Islamic bandwagon , When it all starts going wrong they distance them selves and hope every one will forget what they said lol

briansmythe: Dave do u really think that that coup in turkey could of been fake or a mixture of the two, Really
lol

I K R: I'm not convinced it was real...even if it was he's used it as an excuse for a massive power grab

dave3974: true , but it should ensure that turkey is kept out of the eu for at least 12 years

briansmythe: yeah that's one good thing that came out of it

I K R: well isn't part of the reason they want Turkey to join because they want to prevent a new Turkish caliphate? Though I agree its a good thing not to have Turkey in the EU....Its high time they stopped pussy footing round Erdogan and playing nice to get him board.....He's no intention of being a "team player" in the EU

briansmythe: Turkey warns airport travelers that Sweden has the highest rape rate in Europe amid underage sex scandal
But fails to mention that the very high Swedish rape rate is the direct result of Muslim immigration. Or that “Turkey allows adults to have sex with children under the age of 15

davidk14: .

Turkey has always been Islamic. However, Turkey is leaning towards radical Islam. Let's not forget that Turkey and Israel had a close relationship up until recently.

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