@Lash,
Lash wrote:I'm hearing a lot of chatter that the US uses Erdogan as a puppet in the region, we ran the coup to benefit Erdogan, we support his authoritarian moves, and we are pressing the UN to look the other way.
I'll look for articles if anyone has the stones to write about it.
The US takes a shady position backing such a mini Mussolini.
I believe you that such chatter exists, but note that this chatter is entirely untrue. The world at large comes up with all sorts of anti-American nonsense all the time.
We do pretend that Turkey is a democracy (wrongly in my view). And we do support Erdogan in his role as the supposedly democratically elected leader.
But we did not cause (or even participate in) the coup. We do not support, and in fact oppose, his authoritarian moves.
