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Abundant tweets about civil liberties & national security. "Has a longer memory than an elephant & keeps more records than Jim Comey.” Legendary potty mouth.

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    emptywheel‏ @emptywheel 15 Jul 2017

    What was the point where Erdogan might have gone down a different path?

    4:47 PM - 15 Jul 2017
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      1. Woodencrantz and Bernenstern are dead‏ @FuzzyMarth 15 Jul 2017
        Replying to @emptywheel

        Erdocrantz and Gulenstern

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      1. PeteyOnBlogs‏ @PeteyOnBlogs 15 Jul 2017
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        Don't think he ever wanted to. I think the decision to quash the corruption investigation when it got close was the point of last return.

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      1. (((Barak)))‏ @ThunderJew1775 15 Jul 2017
        Replying to @emptywheel

        Back in 2002, if the Turkish PR system didn't have a crazy threshold that let him take power with 1/3 of the vote…

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      2. Joanne Leon‏ @joanneleon 15 Jul 2017
        Replying to @emptywheel

        Don't remember what year but at one point Erdogan had reconciliation of sorts with Kurdish party. When he scratched that, bad turning pt

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      3. kirk murphy‏ @kirkmurphy 15 Jul 2017
        Replying to @joanneleon @emptywheel

        My hazy recollection is that he turned on the Kurds and the partial rapprochement when his party lost an election....

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      4. Joanne Leon‏ @joanneleon 15 Jul 2017
        Replying to @kirkmurphy @emptywheel

        I'm no expert on Turkey but the complicated frenemy relat w/Gulenists seems to have driven him to extremism, from what I've read

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      1. vera bunse‏ @verabunse 15 Jul 2017
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        Some of the above combined with the rejection by the European Union.

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      1. gringx‏ @NormieDeGuerre 15 Jul 2017
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        1998 if Amnesty had shut up and let him rot in jail for his Islamist-flavored Turkish nationalist poem?

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