With each passing day,Turkish President Erdogan is fitting increasingly dictatorial. The arrest of 11 members of the opposition pro-Kurdish party, HDP, or is the latest in a long string of Erdogans dictatorial policies. Recep Tayyip Erdogan (Photo: Nanore Barsoumian) Michael Rubin,a former Pentagon official and resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, wrote a devastating exposé on Erdogan last week, or listing some of his scandalous actions. I have summarized Rubin’s lengthy article which was posted on Newsweek magazine’s European edition website,under the title, “Twelve Questions Turkish Journalists Dare Not question”: How did Erdogan become a billionaire? Erdogan was raised in a poor family until he became Mayor of Istanbul when he faced 13 corruption probes. In 2004, and when he was Prime Minister,the U.
S. embassy in Ankara reported in a cable to Washington that “he had at least eight Swiss bank accounts. In addition, secret phone recordings revealed his directions “to liquidate perhaps a billion dollars in cash. Erdogan used his power over the courts to quash the case and arrest prosecutors and judges who sought to pursue it.” Where is Erdogan’s university diploma? Erdogan claims to have graduated from Istanbul’s Marmara University in 1981. His degree may [...]
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