Erdogan: The Hitler of our Time

Ellis Washington | July 27, 2016

By Ellis Washington

27 July 2016

If you win, you need not have to explain… If you lose, you should not be there to explain!

~ Adolf Hitler

To Erdogan, free speech is terrorism.

~ John Xenakis

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (right) admires Hitler and the Nazi Third Right and thus covets tyrannical powers like that of Adolf Hitler Photo: Rex/AP

Prelude to a Pretext

According to an informative article, “Worldview: Turkey’s Erdogan gives himself Dictatorial Powers, Moving Turkey Away from the West,” written by Breitbart writer, John J. Xenakis, who chronicled the recent ‘coup d’état’, of Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. I put ‘coup’ in quotes because an increasing number of stories are appearing in the media that the attempted coup on President Erdogan was staged and executed by none other than Erdogan himself. The infamy of Erdogan’s actions against his own country causing over 300 deaths and over 2,100 injuries gave this tyrant what he has been seeking for over a decade –absolute authoritarian powers. Thus on Wed. July 20th Erdogan declared a three-month state of emergency, essentially declaring martial law, that gives him absolute, tyrannical powers that cannot be challenged by parliament, or the courts, or the military. Erdogan announced the following:

As a result of a comprehensive evaluation with members of the National Security Council [MGK], we have decided to recommend the declaration of a state of emergency, in line with Article 120 of our constitution, in order to eliminate the terror organization which attempted to make a coup, swiftly and completely.

To Erdogan, free speech is terrorism, thus to achieve his ultimate ends of tyrannical power over the Turkish people, Erdogan concocted a failed coup and then executed the means to end this “terror organization,” by immediately and brutally purging any and all institutions and people even suspected of plotting against him. So far, 58,000 people have been imprisoned by the purge:

7,500 soldiers have been detained, including 118 generals and admirals
8,000 police have been removed from their posts and 1,000 arrested
3,000 members of the judiciary, including 1,481 judges, have been suspended
15,200 education ministry officials have lost their jobs
21,000 private school teachers have had their licenses revoked
1,577 university deans (faculty heads) have been asked to resign
1,500 finance ministry staff have been removed
492 clerics, preachers and religious teachers have been fired
393 social policy ministry staff have been dismissed
257 prime minister’s office staff have been removed
100 intelligence officials have been suspended

“Because of the size and complexity of this purge, many analysts believe that the purge was in the planning stages for several months, waiting for the right opportunity to implement it,” Xenakis wrote. “It was already obvious in March that something was coming when Erdogan forcibly shut down the only opposition newspaper and jailed the reporters.”

If Erdogan admirer, Adolph Hitler had his Munich Revolution (‘Beer Hall Putsch”), his Reichstag Fire and his coup against his co-rival and S.A. Commander, Ernst Röhm in the so-called “Night of the Long Knives,” then surely Erdogan’s pretext rival (at least in his mind) is Fethullah Gulen, a 76-year-old Turkish Muslim cleric, who Erdogan accuses for plotting and conducting the “terror organization” from afar. Gulen, a former important spiritual advisor to Erdogan, is presently residing as an expatriate in Saylorsburg, Pennsylvania since falling out with Erdogan as his tyrannical tendencies became increasingly dangerous.

Erdogan has solidified his power in Turkey by secretly aligning with ISIS and

allowing ISIS fighters to use Turkey as an international port of ingress and egress.

ISIS broke that alliance by bombing Turkey’s airport on June 28, 2016.

Much like Stalin used the long-arm of the Soviet Union to execute his hated rival Trotsky who was hiding in Mexico, Aug. 21, 1940, Erdogan desperately wants Gulen to be repatriated back to Turkey to torture and execute him before the people of Turkey, but the Obama administration officials so far disagree, demanding that Turkey must present legally verifiable evidence of crimes committed by Gulen before they will agree to deport him back to Turkey. Of course Erdogan has no evidence of crimes committed by Gulen—tyrants operate by Robespierre’s aphorism of expediency—There are no crimes, only criminals. Erdogan’s paranoia which imprisoned the 58,000 police, judges, clerics and social workers claim that they were all involved in a grand conspiracy against him operated by Gulen while living in the mountains of Pennsylvania. You couldn’t write a better movie script than this.

To Erdogan, free speech is terrorism.

Erdogan Channels Hitler

In a January 2016 declaration by Erdogan that shocked even his most sycophantic opponents, Mr. Erdogan replied to critics that vesting political power in the domain of the presidency would be ineffectual in a “unitary state”. He declared history has other examples of it being effective. “There are already examples in the world,” he stated. “You can see it when you look at Hitler’s Germany. There are later examples in various other countries.”

Despite the fact that the Turkish presidency is generally a ceremonial position, with most powers residing in the hands of the prime minister. However, Richard Spencer, Middle East Editor for the UK Telegraph, wrote that Erdogan “was prevented constitutionally from standing as prime minister for a fourth election last year, Mr. Erdogan stood for the presidency instead, and has used the position to continue his aggressive Islamist agenda. In the meantime, he has been trying to change the constitution to formalise the situation.”

During the early years of Hitler and the Nazi Party, Hitler took the Nazi party to national recognition and away from being just one of hundreds of provincial, relatively powerless post-World War I political parties by instigating a coup of the local Bavarian govern called, The Beer Hall Putsch, also known as the Munich Putsch. Although history records this uprising as an unsuccessful coup d’état effort by the Nazi Party leaders Adolf Hitler, Erich Ludendorff and other Kampfbund (“Battle-league”) leaders – to take power by force in Munich, Bavaria, during November 8–9, 1923, it was the pretext and national public exposure factors that launched Hitler and his little Nazi Party to national and international notoriety and celebrity. Approximately 2,000 Nazi men marched to the Munich Square and engaged in a series of protracted battles with police. The riots led to the death of 16 Nazis and four policemen.

Erdogan fake coup has taken a page from Hitler’s playbook. Rule No. 1: Create a pretext to seize power. Rule No. 2: Solve the societal problem you just instigated through such brutal and draconian action that any detractors in the public will fall into silent acceptance for fear that they will be next for vengeance and reprisals. Historian William Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, linked this tyrannical tactic in the man, Adolph Hitler writing— “The whole truth about the Reichstag fire will probably never be known. Nearly all those who knew it are now dead, most of them slain by Hitler in the months that followed.”

Of course Erdogan will follow suit for he already has imprisoned, raped and tortured almost 60,000 people and not a single one of them even had a legal trial or legal representation. To Erdogan, free speech is terrorism. Hitler would be pleased.

As I wrote earlier: Ironically Hitler’s new dictatorial powers were allowable under the old Weimar Constitution (1919-32) whereby the President could rule by decree in times of emergency using his Article 48 powers. However, the extraordinary supremacies of Hitler’s Enabling Act went even further; empowering that the Chancellor (not President von Hindenburg) held these immense powers. Erdogan is doing the same thing by using his fake coup as a pretext to declare a three-month martial law which I’m sure will be extended indefinitely unless the people of Turkey or the military or international powers like NATO or the U.S. rise up to place economic sanctions on him or remove him from office.

In an earlier series of essays, I wrote about Hitler and his successful pretext (with the help of Herman Goering) of starting the Reichstag fire to secure tyrannical powers and to institute martial law in Germany. I wrote this passage about the dystopian times in 1920s and 30s Germany being ripe for the rise of a demagogue like Hitler to seize the imagination and the reigns of absolute political power from the German people still angry and bitter about how they were treated by the victorious Allied Powers in the Versailles Treaty of 1919 after losing World War I:

Never underestimate the motives of a tyrant to seize and keep power over the people. Tyrants don’t understand nor appreciate the words of Patrick Henry that “The chains of the Constitution were to bind the politicians.” The Reichstag fire is just one example. History is replete with examples after examples, however, if the people don’t read, don’t understand and don’t act upon history, then they will according to philosopher George Santayana be “doomed to repeat history.”

This is the Socialist-Progressive pretext that throughout history and the Ages tyrants have always used to abuse the natural rights of We the People while dominating them in chains of Socialist slavery they always conflate as “freedom.” Remember the words of Hermann Goering, Hitler’s Reich-Marshall, “[T]he people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. This is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country.” Tragically, Goering was correct.

This was Hitler’s pretext at the Munich Beer Hall Putsch of 1923. This was Hitler’s pretext at setting the Reichstag Fire which burned down the German Parliament just two weeks into office on Feb. 1933 and then used that disaster to blame his number one political rivals, the Communist Party, then contriving this destruction of the Reichstag as an attack on his authority to rule Germany, given to him by the German people. Hitler then stirred up public revulsion to destroy the German Communist Party and thousands of other political enemies who didn’t support the Nazi Party. This was the pretext Hitler used with Goering to burn down the Reichstag and blame it on the Communists.

Binali Yildirim, Mr. Erdogan’s successor as prime minister defended President Erdogan’s tyrannical actions in instituting martial law by once again referring to Hitler’s Nazi Germany saying that in Germany a parliamentary system had been used by Hitler in his rise to power. “There are authoritarian structures coming out of parliamentary systems,” he said. “Hitler’s Germany was born out of a parliamentary system.”

Thus because the world has not learned from history, the world is condemned to repeat history, therefore just like Turkey’s President Erdogan is doing right now creating a fake coup, imprisoning almost 60,000 people including judges, police, politicians, journalists, lawyers, social workers, and doing this treachery boldly before the eyes of the world, while the world only looks indifferently, distracted, ignorant, oblivious and doing nothing to stop Erdogan, this modern day Hitler of our times.

To Erdogan, free speech is terrorism.