The NYT had an obituary for Fethullah Gülen a few days ago. A few people left comments. One with a Turkish name complained bitterly how the West completely ignored the Islamists in Turkey, destroying Atatürk’s secular legacy. There were no stories about it in the press. The media saw it as a non-story.
Things were still sorting in 1998. I was in a SCIF supporting 1 CAV elements deployed there. Like the later film Gangs of New York, everyone was carving out their territory and people were "choosing" to move. Things would escalate quickly. I will not forget the OSINT item about a dude who fought with his wife and chased her down the street with an RPG launcher. I won't say which faction was his because it doesn't matter, all of them produced head cases like that.
It's crazy. The disconnect is so sharp between the media-academic (basically SDA) version of the war and its combatants - defended even now most aggressively, with reputational attacks on all dissenters - and the reality of the situation, its omnidirectional nastiness, which is wholly uncontroversial among military officials who served there and intelligence people who could see the country coverage.
The NYT had an obituary for Fethullah Gülen a few days ago. A few people left comments. One with a Turkish name complained bitterly how the West completely ignored the Islamists in Turkey, destroying Atatürk’s secular legacy. There were no stories about it in the press. The media saw it as a non-story.
Yes to "and in large measure they all succeeded." The polite term used to be "population transfer" I think.
Or, indeed, "population exchange".
Things were still sorting in 1998. I was in a SCIF supporting 1 CAV elements deployed there. Like the later film Gangs of New York, everyone was carving out their territory and people were "choosing" to move. Things would escalate quickly. I will not forget the OSINT item about a dude who fought with his wife and chased her down the street with an RPG launcher. I won't say which faction was his because it doesn't matter, all of them produced head cases like that.
It's crazy. The disconnect is so sharp between the media-academic (basically SDA) version of the war and its combatants - defended even now most aggressively, with reputational attacks on all dissenters - and the reality of the situation, its omnidirectional nastiness, which is wholly uncontroversial among military officials who served there and intelligence people who could see the country coverage.