Hagia Sophia: first Friday prayer since decades and Erdogan leads the prayer

[The Valkyrie]

Because he has reversed a century of history and progress by by turning Turkey from a secular nation to an Islamist state.

Because he has faked a "coup", detaining thousands and killing no-one knows how many to retain power.

He's a wannabe dictator in the same vein as others in the ME and elsewhere that you, in the past, have reviled.

And what I said Erdogan needs, I firmly believe that many such dictator wannabes in the east and west need.

I wouldn't call the period of Turkey's militarizing a "progress", it was in that period when Turkey lost most of its land and most of its pride. He didn't fake the coup; rather his people protected him because some military generals were the head behind the coup; and Turkish people did not want to live the tragedy of WW1's period,

I'm still against the dictators of the ME to the core; I still want to see every one of them pay and get trialed and get the guillotine , Erdogan is having a war right now against Assad and against Haftar and against SISI. So he doesn't look as bad as you picture him to be.

So if a few military officers and troops were plotting a coup, why did tens of thousands of civil servants, teachers, and members of opposition parties also get detained, lose their jobs, and end up with many restrictions placed on them?

In addition to everything else he has done, he is making war on the Kurds, the most effective fighters against ISIS. They were also betrayed by Trump.