Turkey and Erdogan were bribed to be a time-bomb for the EU, Syria, and Iran.

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    [–]magnora7[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

    For being bribed he sure is making nobody happy.

    Isn't that the truth!

    But I think that's just more evidence of the bribe. The only way he is keeping power is not by popular will, but rather because he has some huge flow of cash supporting him. Perhaps it is embezzlement, but Turkey's economy is not that great... it seems like they suddenly got access to a huge stream of money about 20 or 10 years ago. Which would also make sense why the US was so mad about them using that money to buy Russian-manufactured arms.

    Also he could be doing a combination of embezzling taxpayer money, and also getting huge "foreign aid" both above and below the table, that is basically a bribe to control Erdogan and his government.

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      [–]magnora7[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

      I guess he is fairly popular, 43% approval: https://ahvalnews.com/recep-tayyip-erdogan/erdogans-approval-rating-sees-sharp-drop-latest-offensive-syria

      Your explanation of events makes a lot of sense.