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Erdogen is a terrorist and criminal himself. He will destroy Turkey with his greed and lust for power. He should be treated as a pariah, but many western nations still kid themselves that he can be moderated. Anyone who is even slightly progressive in Turkey will be killed off, leaving just the extremists.

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1 person causes sanctions? Nope.

The old Turkey pre-Erdogan is long gone. Turkey has become a dictatorship with the recent changes giving 1 person crazy powers to overrule judges and representative branch of the govt. Erdogan jailed over 3000 people without due process. I'm still unable to find 3 friends who were in the sweeps in 2014.

Over 1100 former Turkish govt officials have left to seek asylum in Germany.

Turkish govt owns the telecom infrastructure there and has been caught spoofing major SSL certificates for western businesses.

It isn't the same old Turkey. The world needs to watch this man closely. Of course, Russia loves the current problems between Europe, USA and Turkey.

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White House National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow on Trump administration sanctions against Turkey, the trade agreement with the European Union, the future of trade talks with China and Mexico and the upcoming second-quarter GDP data -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fylCuwNUDM0

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Islam is on the march in Turkey (as in other countries) with restoration and expansion of the Caliphate as it's aim. Ataturk would be rolling over in his grave!

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Seadog, agreed.

Its an islamic Turky now, with all the nightmares that entails.

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So.... screw another sovereign state's due process if a us citizen is involved? Ok. Got it.

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Discrimination and ill treatment of non-Muslims (such as Christians) in some Islamic countries is common. Thousands of Coptic Christians have fled from Egypt to Australia as refugees because of such ill treatment. To make things worse,the Copts are the first peopleof Egypt,having been there since before the Romans and certainly since before the Arabs.

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Erdogan is another dictator and he has Turkey bitterly divided. Where democracy has been suspended. Funny how fellow authoritarian and country dividing leader Trump only steps in when "a great Christian family man and wonderful human being. He is suffering greatly. This innocent man of faith should be released immediately!"

Many innocent men and women of faith are being persecuted because of Trump's anti-Muslim rhetoric.

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Erdogan is another dictator and he has Turkey bitterly divided. Where democracy has been suspended. Funny how fellow authoritarian and country dividing leader Trump only steps in when "a great Christian family man and wonderful human being.

Trump authoritarian? If that were true, liberals would not be in this country. They would be on a 24/7 lockdown, people like Maxine Waters would be muzzled and the Democrats would be in the unemployment line.

He is suffering greatly. This innocent man of faith should be released immediately!"

He’s an American, so are you saying because he’s a Cristian man, he doesn’t deserve his freedom, he should be held as a bargaining chip?

Many innocent men and women of faith are being persecuted because of Trump's anti-Muslim rhetoric.

Well the last President didn’t do anything when thousands of Yazidis and other ethnic minorities were being brutally slaughtered in Syria, Sinjar genocide and did nothing, don’t go there.

Many innocent people are dying, but the President has the right and duty to get and bring American citizens home as a top priority.

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One can have authoritarian tendencies even if he's unable to (fully) govern like one. We do know he gets wood around functioning dictators and tends to eschew our blander democratic allies.

Anyway, one definition of authoritarianism is "a general aggressiveness directed against deviants, outgroups and other people that are perceived to be targets according to established authorities." Is that a bell I hear?

Anyway, two authoritarians and the Christian proselytizer they're fighting over--it's really hard to divide my "sympathies" here.

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Does this mean Trump got burned from someone else who violated supposed agreement that they made? Taste of his own medicine? It's only fitting that another egotistical wannabe-dictator did that to Trump.

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It isn't the same old Turkey. The world needs to watch this man closely. Of course, Russia loves the current problems between Europe, USA and Turkey.

Well,, Turkish air force shot down the Russian jet and the pilot was shot, also the Russian ambassador to Turkey was assassinated by Turkish security on live TV, Russia as such is in the same boat as Europe and US.

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