ought to be good for society.

it is as if he would catch his people in a trap. My people are going to learn the principles of democracy, the dictates of truth and the teachings of science. Superstition must go. Let them worship as they will; every man can follow his own conscience, provided it does not interfere with sane reason or bid him against the liberty of his fellow-men."

- Kemal Ataturk

Remember?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025307504

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/europe/turkey/140729/turkish-women-laughing-protest-deputy-prime-minister

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Monday that he will not accept Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi as legitimate, and lambasted the countries that recognized his legitimacy.

Erdoğan said he turned down the offers of some countries' leaders who suggested the Turkish president reconcile with Sisi during the Second Turkey-Africa Partnership Summit last week.

“I said I will not reconcile [with Sisi] or accept him [as legitimate],” Erdoğan said while addressing a meeting of an association promoting women's rights in Ankara.

Turkey fiercely criticized the coup that overthrew former Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi last year. Former military leader Sisi toppled Morsi, who was elected in a free vote in July 2013, only a year after Morsi came to power. Turkey had forged a close alliance with Morsi before his ousting.

http://www.todayszaman.com/diplomacy_erdogan-reiterates-refusal-to-accept-egypts-sisi-as-legitimate_365206.html

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan once again criticized international responses to crises in Gaza and Syria on Monday, saying those who protest “the slightest of human rights violations” in certain countries or turn seal hunting into a “global issue” are silent in the face of tragedies in Gaza and Syria.

“You see that those who make a global issue out of the hunting of seals do not show the slightest sensitivity toward the massacre of thousands of women and children in Syria and Gaza,” Erdoğan said in a speech at the Women and Democracy Association's (KADEM) 1st International Women and Justice Summit in Ankara. “More than 300,000 people have been killed in Syria but there is still no reaction from the world. I talk to them [world leaders] but I get no response.”

Erdoğan's seal hunting comments follow controversial remarks by a Turkish businessman who said his company controls more than 80 percent of the world's seal fur trade. In response to criticism from Western animal rights groups targeting his company, which reportedly kills about 200,000 seals every year, the businessman, Hatem Yavuz, launched a new brand called “Fok You.”

Yavuz himself brushed aside criticism against him in remarks published last week, also saying that his critics ignore tragedies occurring in Gaza and Syria while he himself had recently visited Gaza and currently employs three Syrians.

http://www.todayszaman.com/national_erdogan-slams-anti-seal-hunt-activists-over-silence-on-syria-gaza_365184.html

When Erdogan and the AK party first came to power, the Turkish economy was down the drain and the government was hopelessly corrupt. He restored the economy, which is why he was re-elected the first time. But he has become increasingly dictatorial and he is unraveling Ataturk's secularization of the country. In addition, the Muslim capitalism that he is pushing involves extremely expensive projects that benefit his relatives and friends. His support is largely from the conservative rural parts of the country. I know that he is viewed with dismay by many educated urban Turks.

The ego growth gets them every time.

The economy is still rocky, too.

Erdogan seems to have a remarkable ability to piss people off, it's hard to think of anybody he is not at odds with except the jihadis. He is clearly in bed with ISIS.

Edit: and NATO needs to take a look at him too, he is not a good ally.