Erdogan: Europeans won't walk the streets safely until they respect Turkey

[DavidB.]

“If Europe continues this way, no European in any part of the world can walk safely on the streets. We, as Turkey, call on Europe to respect human rights and democracy,” Erdogan said at event for local journalists in Ankara.

The irony of these two sentences...

Such a shame the coup wasn't successful.

[DavidB.]

With Erdogan you know for sure that Turkey is becoming an Islamic dictatorship. A Kemalist junta, from my point of view, is almost always preferrable and is most likely to be only temporary.