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Category Archives: Turkey
Ten Convenient Beliefs For Leaders Of Turkey Now
Stephen Turner’s convenient beliefs are operating at full presidential and strategic throttle in the Presidential Palace, the Foreign Ministry, MIT (Milli İstihbarat Teşkilatı), and the energy and defense strategy rooms right now. With the U.S.-Israeli campaign in its second month, … Continue reading
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The Jurisdictional Wars: Alliance Theory and the Battle for Turkey’s Master Institutions
Turkey’s high-status actors do not compete for power by admitting they want it. They compete by deploying moral languages that frame their authority as necessary, patriotic, democratic, or stabilizing. This is the central insight of David Pinsof‘s Alliance Theory. Moral … Continue reading
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Is Turkey The New Iran (Islamist Autocracy)?
The claim that “Turkey is the new Iran” is less a factual description than an alliance signal circulating inside Western policy debates. Alliance Theory helps explain why that frame appears and who benefits from it. First look at the coalitions … Continue reading
What is Turkey’s Strategy?
ChatGPT says: Alliance Theory would describe Turkey’s strategy as classic swing-power alliance maximization. Turkey is not trying to fully belong to any single bloc. It is trying to make itself indispensable to several rival blocs at once, so that no … Continue reading
Reports Turkish troops have sealed off Incirlik US/NATO nuclear air base
REPORT: TURKEY has sent police to surround the Incirlik air base it operates with the United States — and where a large stockpile of NATO nuclear weapons is held — ahead of a visit by a senior US official tomorrow. … Continue reading
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‘The ABC of Merkel Youth is Always Be Chopping’
Comments at Steve Sailer: * Erdogan seems pretty competent in putting it into practice. And he seems to be taking the country in the direction that a small majority or plurality of Turks want it to go. He seems to … Continue reading
‘At least 9 casualties reported from German restaurant [suicide] blast’
REPORT: A man has been been killed and up to 11 others injured – some seriously – after the blast ripped through the Eugens Weinstube wine bar at about 10pm on Sunday local time (8pm British time). The incident is … Continue reading
Fake Coup In Turkey
Comments at Steve Sailer: * Who … whom? A false flag? Yes! It wasn’t a successful coup. Indeed, it was the “keystone cops” at play. Consider: 1. Most coups (and certainly most Turkish coups) take place early in the morning … Continue reading
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What Happened In Turkey?
Comments at Steve Sailer: * What amazes me is how the Gulen cult became the second most powerful political force in Turkey because Gulen identified test prep centers as a crucial choke point in Turkish society. The problem is that … Continue reading
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Forced secularization always unravels in a Muslim country?
Comments to Steve Sailer about Turkey: * Every less intelligent race is prone to conspiracy theory thinking, which is just another word for magical thinking. Blacks love it and it’s very entertaining listening to a black man hold forth about … Continue reading