Licenses of 21,000 Turkish teachers have been revoked

Re:Licenses of 21,000 Turkish teachers have been revoked by heliumcraft on Tuesday July 19, 2016 @12:48PM (#12122839)

This happened before in Iran's revolution, School Deans, and even Hospital Directors were replaced by pro-revolution islamists regardless of education or qualifications. We might see Turkey transform itself into what Iran became. After this they need a War (a la Iraq-Iran war) to keep people distracted and then the changes will be permanent.

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Re:Licenses of 21,000 Turkish teachers have been revoked by hx87 on Tuesday July 19, 2016 @12:56PM (#12122908)

The problem with that plan is that Turkey has only one equal on its borders (Iran), and cooking up a cassus belli (supporting the Rojava Kurds & the Syrian government...?) there isn't going to be easy. Everyone else is either friendly (Azerbaijan), an overmatch (Russia & NATO), or a pushover but with overmatching alliances (Armenia & Syria).

I suppose they'll have to settle for a Kurdish insurgency...

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Re:Licenses of 21,000 Turkish teachers have been revoked by heliumcraft on Tuesday July 19, 2016 @01:01PM (#12122963)

There's Syria/ISIS next door, we'll see. Some military interventions and a lot of TV fear propaganda would do the job.

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Re:Licenses of 21,000 Turkish teachers have been revoked by busterarm on Tuesday July 19, 2016 @01:01PM (#12122960)

They have some territorial disputes with Greece and an extant DMZ in Cyprus.

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Re:Licenses of 21,000 Turkish teachers have been revoked by nkrisc on Tuesday July 19, 2016 @01:00PM (#12122955)

There's still Syria.

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