Erd the goon is shutting down newspapers, sacking thousands of journalists and imprisoning the rest

a female journalist was arrested for being too excited!!! I am not joking

Already qualifies for a black toothbrush moustache.

The most worrying part is that Turkey is a member of NATO.

Merkel ignored human rights when sucking up to this man, I would not pay billions to be his friend myself.

Strong leaders with a moustache have previous.

He went to moscow and knelt before pootin and now thinks he is a big shot.  I think he's out of nato within months, maybe weeks if he obstructs the Kurds taking out ISIS.

The gutter press in the UK should note that the first people Erdogan went after were the judges.

just got this from the guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/nov/07/president-erdogan-turkey-leader-crackdown-media-internet-kurdish#comments

Far more of a nutter and a fascist than Trump, but for obvious reasons (he's not a white christian) the lefties at the BBC/C4 don't really give him a hard time.

I'm not a conspiracy nut but I'm still inclined to think that "coup" was an excuse and allowed if not actually planned, same as the nazis, to give them more powers and excuses.

He is using emergency powers to improve his position. Helps his family to sell more daesh oil.  No wonder he wants to carry on invading syria and iraq!!!  More oil!! ho ho!!

He just wants one more vote where he can get enough of a majority to legally change the Turkish constitution to make himself supreme leader.
Once he has that in the bag, I think Europe will be surprised at just how quickly he tells them to get stuffed as they are irrelevant.