Turkey blocks Twitter, YouTube over hostage photo
hurriyetdailynews.com
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Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's ban of YouTube occurred after a conversation was leaked between Head of Turkish Intelligence Hakan Fidan and Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu that he wanted removed from the video-sharing website.
The leaked call details Erdogan's thoughts that an attack on Syria "must be seen as an opportunity for us [Turkey]".
In the conversation, intelligence chief Fidan says that he will send four men from Syria to attack Turkey to "make up a cause of war".
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/turkey-youtube-ban-full-transcript-...
Quite an understatement. Some of the news outlets deemed it unnecessary to mention what was said in the leaked tapes and instead referred to it as a "military strategy".
How trushworthy is ibtimes?
> European Union During a televised debate on May 20, 2014 for the 2014 European Parliament Elections, President of the European Commission candidates Jean-Claude Juncker and Martin Schulz (of the EEP and S&D blocs respectively) both argued that they would "promise" that Turkey would never join the European Union while either one of them were President, with the view that Turkey has turned its back on "European democratic values".[177]
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accession_of_Turkey_to_the_Euro...
updated: broken link
Turkey would quickly become another Greece, only likely with a violent Islamist opposition instead of a violent Fascist opposition.
Sadly it no longer seems that there is much hope for Turkey, in the 90's and early 2000's they seemed to make so much progress but now they seem to be just fine with devolving and going completely away from the path that Ataturk set for them after the fall of the Ottoman empire.
What people seem to forget is that the majority of their population is very rural, uneducated and really in opposite with western and European values and their power base since the latest regime change just been growing, the "Islamist" opposition you speak off is not an opposition any more it's the ruling party.
They seem to be much more of a mix between Iran and Russia in their form of government than a the disorganized EU nation like Greece or Italy they were in the 90's and It's a shame. Turkey could have offered a huge boost to the Eurozone they on a steady path to become one of the largest individual economies in the world.
[1] http://www.geohive.com/earth/pop_urban.aspx [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey#Demographics
Turkey has the lowest educational attainment in the OECD, only 32% of adults have high school education, and amongst the younger generation it's still bad as less than 40% of it's male populations and less than 30% of it's female population completes a high school equivalent education, and only a fraction of that get higher secondary education.
Much of it's population is really on opposites sides of current western values and the government crackdown on free press, opposition parties, taking control over the courts and legal system, dismantling the (for once in a life time remarkably positive) influence of the military, and just the complete mockery of all attempts at democracy just put it on a completely different course than it used to be only 2 decades ago.
Just wanted to point out some speculations out there.