And yet turkey now has a president ... that obviously gained the better part of his power through a false-flag attack (the "coup d'etat" that "somehow" managed to fail to capture even a single government official or building).
And you just can't believe how bad it gets ... They're arresting everyone who supposedly had anything (right down to IP addresses) to do with, oh, lots of things. Gulenists, Kurds, the Press, LGBT, ...
And then people in the US reply "but that's thousands, no, tens of thousands of people".
Yes. Yes it is [1].
And you just can't believe how bad this guy is:
(about the Armenian genocide) "a muslim cannot commit genocide"
(about women) "Our religion [Islam] has defined a position for women [in society]: motherhood. You cannot explain this to feminists because they don't accept the concept of motherhood."
He, and his family, personally organised oil sales on behalf of islamic state, including to the US
"We will rip out the roots of the Twitter service"
He orchestrated physical attacks against newspapers.
The worst of it is, truth be told he has flip-flopped on just about every issue, including the ones mentioned right above here, and doesn't seem all that coherent at all. But unscrupulous is a word that just falls short : the guy is accused to have organised, in some cases systematic, physical attacks against Turks in Germany, the US and elsewhere for being perceived as being against him.
I can't imagine how threatened Turks must feel.
[1] http://edition.cnn.com/2017/04/14/europe/turkey-failed-coup-...
http://dailycaller.com/2017/09/22/erdogans-goons-beat-up-som...
When the topic itself is already politicized, this of course is a matter of degree. But however we draw the line, a comment like yours here is well on the wrong side of it.
And he recently got the Turkish constitution changed in his favor, openly citing Adolf Hitler's Germany as an example of an effective presidential government.
I recommend doing some reading to understand the situation in Turkey