{"id":186235,"date":"2014-03-27T19:24:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-28T00:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/03\/27\/recep-tayyip-erdogan-is-toast\/"},"modified":"2014-03-27T19:24:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-28T00:24:00","slug":"recep-tayyip-erdogan-is-toast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/03\/27\/recep-tayyip-erdogan-is-toast\/","title":{"rendered":"Recep Tayyip Erdogan is Toast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There has been a lot going in Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>There is a recording that allegedly has the Turkey&#8217;s PM taking about a corruption coverup with his son.<\/p>\n<p>About a week ago, when this went viral, Turkey blocked Twitter, and today, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/news?ncl=da8iRXoQA7FSSQM1_h7B_w5naPN5M&amp;q=turkey+youtube&amp;lr=English&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ei=K200U6iKDeiqsQTxwoC4DA&amp;ved=0CDUQqgIwAA\">they blocked YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There is a point in every scandal when its target goes a little bit nuts, and Erdogan has hit this point.<\/p>\n<p>This stage is characteristic of the end-game.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know whether it will be his party, or the opposition, or the Turkish military who will take him down, but down he will be taken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There has been a lot going in Turkey. There is a recording that allegedly has the Turkey&#8217;s PM taking about a corruption coverup with his son. About a week ago, when this went viral, Turkey blocked Twitter, and today, they blocked YouTube. There is a point in every scandal when its target goes a little &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[971,970,997,1099,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-rights","category-corruption","category-internet","category-near-east","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186235"}],"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=186235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}