Time to talk Turkiye: Tourism & politics in the new Turkey

 

Time to talk Turkiye: Tourism & politics in the new Turkey

      It's been over two months now since I got back from Turkey (now officially called Turkiye, BTW) and I'm still trying to sort out all the stuff that I learned there.  Haven't quite finished digesting it all yet, but more and more insights are becoming clear.  So much to see in Turkey.  So much to do.  So much to learn.  And so much that is hidden there as well.

     Did you know that there are over 4,000 ancient Greek and Roman ruins in Turkiye?  And I must have walked through most of them.  My feet are still sore.  To the Romans, Turkey was more than just some miscellaneous conquered terrain.  It was considered another province of Rome just like California is considered another province of the United States (or just another province of the Evil Globalist Bastards if you wanna think about what Governor Newsom has been up to here in the past three years). 

     Emperor Hadrian toured Turkiye often.  He especially liked Ephesus and Perge -- but who could blame him.  Ephesus was huge back then, with a population about the size of Pittsburgh or Cincinnati.  Miles of that ancient city are still preserved, including an amphitheater that holds 24,000 people.  You really gotta go there.  St. Paul wasn't its only tourist.

      Then of course there's Istanbul.  Lively and lovely.  Glorious mosques.  Delicious food.  Panoramic views.  No other city like it in the world except perhaps San Francisco or Hong Kong.  Topkapi Palace?  What can I say.  Those Muslim sultans really knew how to live!  Even Prince Bad-Boy bin Salman would be jealous.  I was jealous too -- except for the extensive harem jailhouse of course.  They woulda locked me up there and thrown away the key.

      Next came Cappadocia and the Turquoise Coast.  Touristic heaven!  I swam in both the Mediterranean and the Aegean, had dinner in a restaurant carved out of a cave and got my feet wet in Cleopatra's Bath.

     What I didn't see in Turkiye was the political side of stuff.  Sure, most Turks think President Estrogen, er, Erdoğan is a pretentious jerk with delusions of grandeur -- but that's to be expected.  After all, he is one.

     But then there is the darker side of politics in Turkey that no one wants to talk about.  For instance, how Erdoğan secretly funded and supported ISIS.  Serena Shim, one journalist to write about that connection, was dead two days after her article appeared.  D.E.A.D.  Not just "passed away".  Other journalists to mysteriously die in Istambul?  Jamal Khashoggi, of course, and also the legendary Andre Vltchek.

      And Turkey did even more underhanded stuff in Syria, such as stealing its oil, stealing its factories (literally) and spreading untrue gossip about war atrocities such as barrel bombs and gas attacks that were actually committed by ISIS and the so-called Moderate Rebels and White Helmets -- not by Syrians.

       Compared to Tayyip Erdoğan, Basar Assad is a freaking saint.

     And even now, according to the Syria Support Movement, "There is much misinformation and deceit about the Bab al Hawa border crossing into Idlib province, Syria.  First, Western media rarely mention that after the aid crosses the border from Turkey, it is effectively controlled by Syria’s version of Al Qaeda, Hayat Tahrir al Sham (HTS).  Second, they fail to explain that HTS hoards much of the aid for its fighters.  Third, HTS makes millions of dollars by taxing the aid that it distributes to the rest of the population under its control." 

     And at the Istanbul airport on the way home, I ran into several muscle-shirt-wearing Ukra$nian mercenaries who'd been hanging out in Turkey for R and R -- and perhaps for a bit of weapons training as well.  After all, Turkiye is the most weaponized nation in Europe.  America has poked the Russian bear, yes, but then NATO ran away and let Turkey's European allies suffer the economic consequences when the Russian Bear struck back. 

      Erdoğan may be a corrupt bastard but he is certainly no dummy.  He knows where his next paycheck is coming from -- the same place that Zelensky, Newsom, Biden, NATO, Trudeau, Trump, the United Nations, Obama, Bush, Fasci, Johnson and Macron get theirs.  The Federal Reserve apparently has a counterfeiting operation set up in Davos.

      And I also found out that both Turkey and Saudi Arabia are currently trying to hedge their bets by asking to join BRICS.  Both Estrogen and Prince Bad-Boy can clearly see the writing on the wall -- that NATO, the Pentagon and their allies no longer rule our planetary playground and that the American dollar no longer rules the world either.  The ruble and yuan are the new kids on the block -- and Turkey and the Saudis are clearly trying to jump ship.

     Oops, Erdoğan's latest dirty secrets are out now.  My bad.

      But I don't want to think about stuff like Turkiye's support for ISIS or how it is happily fanning the flames of war in Europe.  I just want to remember watching all those exquisite Whirling Dervishes and witnessing that beautiful wedding ceremony inside an ancient cave-cathedral in Cappadocia.  Like so many other Americans, I just wanna live in denial.

Resources:

NATO, Syria and Russia.  Who ya gonna call?  "NATO ready to attack a nuclear plant to ethnically cleanse Russians from Ukraine -- George Eliason"  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_0yXg1RfvE&t=4264s

More info about Serena Shim's untimely death:  https://whowhatwhy.org/culture/journalism-media/serena-shim-the-life-and-unexplained-death-of-a-syria-war-reporter/

Massive miscarriage rates found among vaccinated pregnant women:  https://pierrekory.substack.com/p/massive-miscarriage-rates-among-vaccinated

 

U.S. and Turkey are still stealing Syrian oil:  https://syriasupportmovement.org/2022/08/19/us-military-still-stealing-oil-in-syria/  

 

Greg Mannarino has yet another delightful meltdown about America being the most debt-riddled nation in history:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8mSIjEXHhM

 

"The response to the COVID-19 [panic] represented the triumph of a pseudo-scientific biosecurity agenda that emerged in 2005 and has been pushed ever since by a well-organised, well-funded and well-embedded network of ideologues."  https://dailysceptic.org/2022/08/22/where-lockdowns-and-fast-tracked-vaccines-came-from/

 

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