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

i am a bit busy (getting ready to build a new shed, redoing a bathroom, the spring is here, etc) atm, but i will post stuff as i go. in turkey the real power was held by the army, and erdogan changed that with purges and concentrated power in his own hand. he purged the gulenists and also reduced the influence of the 'elders' (babas? or smthing like that they are called), he purged the teachers, the journalists, etc, reduced the power of the parliament, the government, the courts, and concentrated everything in his hands. so it's probably not hard for him to get rich. putin did the same in russia, they are following the same pattern.

edit: but i don't have anything concrete about the jesuit connection other than that erdogan went to visit bergoglio in the vatican and bergoglio also visited him in turkey afterwards..