For me what I see of Turkey on the TV lately it appears more and more like Nazi Germany
- Large rallies - red and white flags - encourage the underclasses to support you
- Make a fairly minor coup attempt appear to be a threat against 'all Turks everywhere' so you can deploy any rules you like to 'crush the threat and restore order'
- No disagreement with the official line - 'State is Family'
- Single political and state leader
- Lots of close 'cronies' in key roles - removal of key people in key roles in society
- Military effectively 'beheaded' - introduction of paramilitary 'interfaces'
- Declared policy of border expansion
- isolating and targeting of minority groups
- Idealogy driven models
- Destruction of political opposition
- Crushing of Academic environments and 'free thinking' radicals
- Burning of academic and religious texts
- Concentration of objectors into prisons (camps)
Pretty scary stuff, how long before someone says 'enough is enough' ??
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'Where one burns books, one eventually burns people' Christian Johann Heinrich Heine (December 13, 1797 – February 17, 1856