{"id":1837,"date":"2017-03-29T22:21:22","date_gmt":"2017-03-29T22:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=1837"},"modified":"2017-03-29T22:21:22","modified_gmt":"2017-03-29T22:21:22","slug":"ex-pentagon-advisor-turkey-headed-towards-civil-conflict-if-not-civil-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2017\/03\/29\/ex-pentagon-advisor-turkey-headed-towards-civil-conflict-if-not-civil-war\/","title":{"rendered":"EX-PENTAGON ADVISOR : \u201cTURKEY HEADED TOWARDS CIVIL CONFLICT, IF NOT CIVIL WAR\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sourced : Kom News<\/p>\n

Resident Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and former Pentagon Staff Advisor Michael Rubin said that Turkey is headed towards \u201ca prolonged period of civil conflict if not civil war,\u201d in an interview with Firat News Agency (ANF) published on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Answering a question on the 16 April referendum in Turkey, which will grant sweeping powers to President Tayyip Erdogan if the proposed changes to the current constitution are approved, Rubin said, \u201cTurkey is dangerously polarized. We know from Turkish political history that such polarization often leads to violence.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cDictatorial powers for Recep Tayyip Erdogan will allow him to transform Turkey completely. The fact that so many people opposed to Erdogan are in prison or fear that Erdogan will use the mechanisms of the state to punish their families or ruin them financially means that they will never accept the outcome of a \u2018yes\u2019 victory in the referendum, causing tension to remain and worsen. In short, I fear that Turkey is headed to a prolonged period of civil conflict if not civil war,\u201d Rubin proclaimed.<\/p>\n

Asked about his perspective on the Kurdish question in light of the latest developments in the region, Rubin stated that Turkey is on the verge of partition. \u201cErdogan\u2019s policies will lead to the permanent division of Turkey. Whether that\u2019s a division of internal borders or a partition of the country remains to be seen,\u201d said the former Pentagon staff advisor. \u201cI\u2019m not alone in my thoughts and analysis,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Referring to one of several tweets in Turkish that Rubin posted lately, in which he asks \u201cDoes Erdogan think we don\u2019t know where he is hiding the money he has stolen,\u201d Rubin said, \u201cthere\u2019s a number of bank accounts in Europe and Russia belonging to Erdogan and his family.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cErdogan\u2019s corruption is public record. Presumably, the intelligence services of these countries know where he keeps the cash. Vladimir Putin certainly does. The reason why Erdogan is so upset at the Zarrab case is that such information in the hands of the judiciary will become public record at trial,\u201d referring to the Zarrab probe in the USA, where the arrest of a Turkish banker on Tuesday<\/a> opened the way to connect the trial to former members of Erdogan\u2019s cabinet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sourced : Kom News Resident Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and former Pentagon Staff Advisor Michael Rubin said that Turkey is headed towards \u201ca prolonged period of civil conflict if not civil war,\u201d in an interview with Firat News Agency (ANF) published on Wednesday. Answering a question on the 16 April referendum in Turkey,… Continue reading EX-PENTAGON ADVISOR : \u201cTURKEY HEADED TOWARDS CIVIL CONFLICT, IF NOT CIVIL WAR\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1838,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[485,466,1406,27,152],"class_list":["post-1837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conflict","tag-erdogan","tag-europe","tag-michael-rubin","tag-russia","tag-usa","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1839,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1837\/revisions\/1839"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}