tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8952542071404465260.post1336516147676219245..comments2024-03-29T08:44:54.040+01:00Comments on David Ranan: Metaphors changeDavid Rananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06550286775018902160noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8952542071404465260.post-8765179069705522342016-07-21T08:10:47.626+02:002016-07-21T08:10:47.626+02:00I am not saying he isn't capable of it, but Er...I am not saying he isn't capable of it, but Erdogan hasn't started a war yet and he hasn't built any concentration camps yet.<br /><br />His ravings bear more semblance to those of Stalin than of Hitler's: The decapitation of the military by deposing (killing?) its generals; the restrictions of science and teaching, of travel; the curtailment of the free press; the stringing along of wealthy but ignorant foreign leaders; the declaration of a permanent state of emergency; the paranoid war on part of his own country's population.<br /><br />All this seems more like Stalinist "cleansings" than NS-terror.<br /><br />Incidentally there is no counterpart of Ernst Röhm in current turkish affairs. Röhm was himself a rather despicable figure.Alexnoreply@blogger.com