Dick Morris: Americans Should Be Cheering for Turkey Coup to
Succeed
Political strategist Dick Morris told Newsmax TV on Friday that the United States should be hoping that the military coup against Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was successful.
"Erdogan won the election overwhelmingly years ago and has been re-elected twice on a platform of Islamizing the Turkish government and making it kind of like Iran," Morris told host John Bachman on "The Steve Malzberg Show" in an interview. "The military has been resisting that.
"It's been a conflict between those who really want Turkey to go the way of Europe and those who want it to go the way of Iran.
"So, root for the military in this case," he said. "I hope our administration does.
"Obama sometimes roots against the interest of the United States in favor of the bad guys because he's procedurally hung up on democracy or is perhaps sympathetic for the Muslim regime."
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Morris told Bachman that the unrest is "an exact parallel completely" to the 2013 coup Egyptian Army Gen. Abdel Fattah el-Sisi led against President Mohamed Morsi. He was elected president in 2014.
"It's exactly the
same thing," he said. "The opposite of the Iranian revolution.
"This is crucial because Turkey obviously and strategically is completely crucial — and Iran cannot be a major threat without at least some degree of control over Turkey.
"This is a very good development, and you have to hope that Obama doesn't screw it up."
Morris is author of the new book "Armageddon: How Trump Can Beat Hillary" with Eileen McGann, out this week and available at bookstores everywhere and online at both Barnes & Noble and Amazon.
"This is crucial because Turkey obviously and strategically is completely crucial — and Iran cannot be a major threat without at least some degree of control over Turkey.
"This is a very good development, and you have to hope that Obama doesn't screw it up."
Morris is author of the new book "Armageddon: How Trump Can Beat Hillary" with Eileen McGann, out this week and available at bookstores everywhere and online at both Barnes & Noble and Amazon.
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Turkey is
94% Muslim. Those involved in trade tend
to be more “secular” and less “Islamic” and the Military is on the side of the
“secular” crowd. They run the economy
and defend against ISIS. The rest of the
country is rural and very “Islamic” and they have the votes.
Turkish
President Erdogan has been
straddling the divide, but to get re-elected, he needs to keep the “Islamic”
voters happy. He really needs to get the rural areas to tone it down.
Turkey’s economy is in
good shape, but it is a disaster politically.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA
Tea Party Leader
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