Turkey’s Erdogan Praises “Hitler’s Germany” As Example Of Effective Government

Back in August, Nationalist opposition leader Devlet Bahceli took to Twitter to call Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan a’locally produced Hitler, Stalin or Qaddafi’:
Ynetim sistemi bir kiinin eline kaldysa vay halimize! Bizim yerli retim Hitler’e, Stalin’e, Kaddafi’ye tahammlmz olmaz, bu iyi biline
— Devlet Baheli (@dbdevletbahceli) August 15, 2015

That comment came as Erdogan was busy undermining the coalition building process on the way to calling for new elections. “Accept it or not, Turkey’s governmental system has become one of an executive presidency,” Erdogan said, the day before the tweet shown above was published. “What should be done now is to finalize the legal framework of this de facto situation with a new constitution,’ Erdogan continued.
For anyone in need of a refresher, Erdogan’s plans to make Turkey an executive presidency were derailed in June when the pro-Kurdish HDP put on a better show at the ballot box than expected, robbing AKP of its absolute majority in parliament.
The President effectively nullified the election results by calling for a November redo ballot.

This post was published at Zero Hedge on 01/01/2016.