PM Erdogan is molding Turkey into a statue Toe!
Secular Islamic Turkey Is No Longer Secular,
Army that kept it secular has lost its Power,
To civilian government
of Jihad Radicals,
Who will lead it to become a Daniel Toe,
As detailed in August 30, 2007 Blog,
Preceding a February 23, 2010 Blog,
From Al Jazeera Via World News!
February 25, 2010
http://www.tribulationperiod.com/
Daniel 2:42-44 – And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken. [43] And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay. [44] And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.
Begin Archive Blog of 2007
Turkish Army Ready to intervene against Centers of Evil in New Government!
August 30, 2007
http://www.tribulationperiod.com/
Three times in past decades the powerful Turkish army has been able to seize power from different civilian governments trying to end Turkey’s secular form of government. If they are not successful during the life of the present civilian government, then it is very possible that Turkey will slip back under a religious Islamic form of government, which would be instrumental in a Turkish Ruler becoming one of the ten horns in the end times empire of Antichrist in the seventh Chapter of Daniel.
Daniel 7:24,25 – And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings. [25] And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.
Begin Guardian Article
Turkey Military: Secularism Under Attack
Monday August 27, 2007 5:16 PM
By C. ONUR ANT
Associated Press Writer
ISTANBUL, Turkey (AP) – Turkey’s staunchly secular military said Monday that the strict line between Islam and the state was under attack by “centers of evil” – a strong warning ahead of the expected election of a president with a background in political Islam.
Gen. Yasar Buyukanit, chief of the military, said in a note on the military’s Web site, that “our nation has been watching the behavior of centers of evil who systematically try to corrode the secular nature of the Turkish Republic.”
Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul, whose bid earlier this year to become president in a parliamentary voting process was blocked by the secular establishment because of concerns about
his Islamic past, was expected to win the post on Tuesday.
The statement from the military, which seized power from civilian governments three times in past decades, was issued to mark the 85th anniversary on Aug.
30 of a military victory that was crucial for the establishment of modern Turkey.
“Nefarious plans to ruin Turkey’s secular and democratic nature emerge in different forms everyday,” Buyukanit said in the statement.
“The military will, just as it has so far, keep its determination to guard social, democratic and secular Turkey,” Buyukanit said.
In April, when Gul’s candidacy first came to vote, the military, which had largely stayed out of
the public debate, indicated it was willing to become more openly involved.
“It should not be forgotten that the Turkish armed forces is one of the sides in this debate and the absolute defender of secularism. When necessary, they will display their attitudes and actions very clearly,” the military said at the time.
Gul is likely to be Turkey’s 11th president after a third round of presidential voting in the Parliament Tuesday.
He withdrew his earlier bid in the face of mounting criticism from the secular opposition, which was backed by the military and the top court.
Huge crowds took to the streets in major cities and demanded that Gul revoke his candidacy for the post.
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who had picked Gul as his candidate, called early general elections to defuse tensions. The elections were held July 22, and Erdogan’s ruling party won a resounding victory, which most analysts here interpreted as the people’s support for Gul’s candidacy.
Gul renewed his presidential bid after the elections. In the first two rounds of voting, he failed to get support from two-thirds of the Parliament, which was required to be elected for the post.
He will need only a simple majority in the third round on Tuesday. His party holds 341 of the 550 seats in Parliament.
Begin Current 2010 Blog
Begin Excerpt from Al Jazeera via World News
Army grilled on Turkey ‘coup plot’
February 23, 2010
Turkish police have begun questioning about 50 military officers detained on Monday over an alleged plot to destabilise the country and trigger a coup to topple the government.
Retired commanders of the air force and navy and the former deputy armed forces chief were among those being interrogated by police following raids in Istanbul, Ankara and Izmir.
All the detainees were reported to have been brought to Istanbul, with some being questioned at the city’s police headquarters and others having been brought to an Istanbul court on Tuesday morning.
The dawn swoop has fuelled political strains and unsettled financial markets in the country, adding to tensions generated by a clash between the ruling AK Party and the secularist army and judiciary.
‘Political vendetta’
General Ilker Basbug, the head of Turkey’s armed forces, has postponed a trip to Egypt as a result of the investigation.
The AFP news agency reported that seventeen retired generals, including Ibrahim Firtina, the former head of the airforce and Ozden Ornek, a former navy chief, as well as four active-duty admirals were among those detained.
The operation has brought condemnation by opposition figures.
“This is not a legal process.
This is apparently a sheer process of political showdown,” said Deniz Baykal, head of the main opposition Republican People’s Party.
Devlet Bahceli, another opposition leader and head of the Nationalist Action Party, accused the government of carrying out a “political vendetta” and urged the sides to refrain from making inflammatory statements that could further fuel the tensions.
The arrests are believed to be linked to a purported 2003 plot to discredit the AKP government, a plan revealed by the Taraf newspaper in January.
The plan, codenamed Sledgehammer, involved bombing two Istanbul mosques and escalating tensions with Greece by forcing Greek jets to down a Turkish plane over the Aegean Sea.
The act would have been an attempt to show the Turkish government as inept, according to documents obtained by Taraf.
Army denial
The Turkish army said the documents were discussed in a seminar on war-time contingency plans, but denied they represented a coup plot.
Anita McNaught, Al Jazeera’s correspondent in Istanbul, said: “When the head of the military last spoke to the public on the subject he appealed to their common sense.
“He said how could army that chants ‘Allah’ when it orders its troops into battle be the same army that could possibly conceive of bombing a mosque and injuring Muslims at prayer.
“But it seems that those allegations may have foundations and that’s what the investigations are about. “And we’re expecting some of them [those detained] to come to some sort of court hearing this week.”
The armed forces have ousted four governments since 1960 and such an operation against them would have been unimaginable until recent years.
Under EU pressure, however, Erdogan has dramatically curtailed the military’s power and reinforced its place under civilian rule.
Other senior military officers have been indicted on charges of planning a separate plot by a far-right group known as “Ergenekon” to overthrow the government.
That trial is ongoing. Critics of the government say the Ergenekon case has been used to target political opponents.
The Turkish lira and shares weakened in early trading as the investigation hurt investor sentiment.
Source: Agencies
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