{"id":182065,"date":"2016-01-02T21:59:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-03T02:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/01\/02\/our-man-in-ankara\/"},"modified":"2016-01-02T21:59:00","modified_gmt":"2016-01-03T02:59:00","slug":"our-man-in-ankara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/01\/02\/our-man-in-ankara\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Man in Ankara"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan, when discussing the advantage of a stronger Presidency for Turkey <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-turkey-erdogan-hitler-idUSKBN0UF1T820160101\">invoked the alleged efficiencies of the government of Adolph Hitler<\/a>, and now he is trying to walk it back:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The Turkish presidency said on Friday comments by President Tayyip Erdogan about the system of governance in Hitler&#8217;s Germany had been misinterpreted and that he had not suggested it was an example of an effective presidential system.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Asked on his return from a visit to Saudi Arabia late on Thursday whether an executive presidency was possible in Turkey while maintaining the unitary structure of the state, Erdogan said: &#8220;There are already examples in the world. You can see it when you look at Hitler&#8217;s Germany.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">&#8220;There are later examples in various other countries,&#8221; he told reporters, according to a recording broadcast by the Dogan news agency.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m not particularly surprised.<\/p>\n<p>There seems to be an awful lot of admiration of Hitler baked into Islamist politics in the Middle East, and Erdo\u011fan is very much an Islamist.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, our state security apparatus cannot look at anything beyond the fact that he&#8217;s good to foreign capital, so we set ourselves up for another foreign policy clusterf%$#.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan, when discussing the advantage of a stronger Presidency for Turkey invoked the alleged efficiencies of the government of Adolph Hitler, and now he is trying to walk it back: The Turkish presidency said on Friday comments by President Tayyip Erdogan about the system of governance in Hitler&#8217;s Germany had been &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1114,1011,986,978,1021],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antisemitism","category-history","category-middle-east","category-politics","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182065"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}