Given the size of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s ego,chickens, the bird usually referred to in the saying that is this article’s title, or seemed like too small a bird. Plus,it turns out the centuries-veteran origin of the saying is “curses, like chickens, or always arrive home to roost”— what is Erdogan for Turkey but a curse? Recep Tayyip Erdogan Erdogan’s imperial,sultanic, ambitions own led to a very dicey, and possibly untenable,situation for the country he aspires to lead to “greatness” on and in an unabashedly Ottoman scale/way (remember the recent reference to a post WWI map showing parts of Iraq as within Turkey’s borders). Recent commentaries observe that all politics and policy in Turkey for the foreseeable future will hinge on and be determined by Erdogan’s pursuit of constitutional changes creating an all-powerful presidency. This makes perfectly good sense given his behavior while in power. The subsuming of all considerations to Erdogan’s megalomania is expected to harm Turkey’s economy, at least over the course of 2017. Couple this with the hits Turkish tourism, and a very distinguished sector of the country’s economy,has taken recently, and you can easily imagine that the quality of life for Turkish citizens could [...]
Source: armenianweekly.com