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Riiiiiight, an Armenian that blows a gasket at the slightest suggestion that Erdogan might not be the greatest Kalif of all time! What else you got for me, wolf?

Same user, same level of intelligence. I'll be magnanimous:

I was addressing your weird opinion that Erdogan made something worse about Turkey, making it a "rogue state".

In the narratives popular in the West (discourse by Baudrillard) it was a normal state since joining NATO, because that makes it part of the "good guys", "free world" and all that bullshit.

But in reality it had a few big Greek and Armenian pogroms after joining NATO, used historical monuments as target practice, had military coups as normal order of things, censorship, extrajudicial murders by military, special services, pro-government militias, had "village guards", and all that after Turkey joining NATO.

As I have already said, any kind of democracy is a new thing for Turkey. And before Erdogan technically Turkish military still could just change the government without violating any law. Also Erdogan started with quite a bit of social liberalization and still hasn't undone that. He surely plays sultan, but it appears to be the zeitgeist. And he's going to die and things are going to change.

So it being a "rogue state" is conditioned not by it becoming worse (it's been plainly fascist for all of its history in NATO), but by it becoming somehow less useful for the West. Which makes the "rogue state" concept meaningless, it's one thing to become one because of breaking rules, it's another to become one just because of bad alliances.

Just like Georgia right now is getting all kinds of threats because of their construction of the port in Anaklia. Since it's a project involving China. While it's still a flawed democracy. And Azerbaijan is not getting any threats while being a genocidal sultanate. And Azerbaijan is closer to Russia than Georgia is, so that's not a justification.