Erdogan taunts Obama over coup attempt in Turkey (Implications with Russia, Syria, and Iran)

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Good looking out breh, I wasn't being lazy or nothing just figured I'd ask people who had more understanding of it then me before I did some research.

Turkey was behind a lot of the stuff that happened in Egypt and elsewhere supposedly during the Arab spring. Also Qatar and maybe Bahrain from what I remember. I know Turkey played a key roll in Egypt though.
 

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Turkey was behind a lot of the stuff that happened in Egypt and elsewhere supposedly during the Arab spring. Also Qatar and maybe Bahrain from what I remember. I know Turkey played a key roll in Egypt though.
I never heard of turkey being involved in the arab spring before.

man what the fukk is up with all this intertwined bullshyt? you pull one thread and 20 more unravel. this shyt is plotted too thickly.
 

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I never heard of turkey being involved in the arab spring before.

man what the fukk is up with all this intertwined bullshyt? you pull one thread and 20 more unravel. this shyt is plotted too thickly.

I was out a bit earlier tonight but you're going to want to look for articles from when the Arab Spring was taking place. The Ottoman Empire used to hold sway over most of the Middle East and North Africa and who/what country wouldn't that control/power back. In Egypt Sisi ultimately won out but they say the Muslim Brotherhood/Morsi were backed by Turkey and they were doing the heavy lifting. To a lesser degree you have the Sunni/Shiite allegiance thing going on but most of North Africa is Sunni from what I know so they're more inline with Saudi/Turkey anyway.

I just did a quick google and some things have changed since but here we go

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/23/opinion/turkeys-failed-foreign-policy.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/05/opinion/in-the-arab-spring-watch-turkey.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/09/world/middleeast/turkey-iran-saudi-arabia.html?_r=0
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I never heard of turkey being involved in the arab spring before.

man what the fukk is up with all this intertwined bullshyt? you pull one thread and 20 more unravel. this shyt is plotted too thickly.
Turkey and Qatar heavily support the Muslim brotherhood, a party that played a prominent role in the arab spring.
 

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the last thing Turkey needs on it's plate is economic warfare
That would push turkey into the Russian camp. A security dilemma nato could never overcome. Europe will not use economic warfare as long as erdogan runs turkey. He'll definitely retaliate. Not to mention Europe is in no position to damage their own wobbly economies. While he likely floods them with Syrians further fracturing EU beyond just UK leaving.

Turkey holds a lot more cards then everyone realizes.
 

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I was out a bit earlier tonight but you're going to want to look for articles from when the Arab Spring was taking place. The Ottoman Empire used to hold sway over most of the Middle East and North Africa and who/what country wouldn't that control/power back. In Egypt Sisi ultimately won out but they say the Muslim Brotherhood/Morsi were backed by Turkey and they were doing the heavy lifting. To a lesser degree you have the Sunni/Shiite allegiance thing going on but most of North Africa is Sunni from what I know so they're more inline with Saudi/Turkey anyway.

I just did a quick google and some things have changed since but here we go

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/23/opinion/turkeys-failed-foreign-policy.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/05/opinion/in-the-arab-spring-watch-turkey.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/09/world/middleeast/turkey-iran-saudi-arabia.html?_r=0
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man good looking out to all yall who been hipping me to some new information I wasn't aware of.:salute:
 

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:ohhh: interesting times. Look forward to a more robust Islamic presence in the world
 
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