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Recep Tayyip Erdogans carefully planned move to become legal dictator of Turkey is in its final stages. In the wake of a foiled coup, Erdogan removed or imprisoned every judge not on his side, shut down all opposition newspapers, and jailed all of his political opponents.

After his hand-picked court approved the changes Erdogan wanted, all that remains is a Public Referendum which Erdogan will win simply because he gets to count the votes.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan has begun a final push to increase his power as Turkeys president a goal he has sought for years after the countrys parliament agreed far-reaching constitutional changes that will now be put to referendum.

The proposed changes, which were shepherded through parliament on Friday night in alliance between Turkeys ruling AKP and a nationalist party, would crown Mr Erdogans 14-year rule by boosting his formal role as president and allowing him to remain in post until 2029.

In a sign of the tension that may mark the referendum, fist fights broke out in parliament over several days, while a television blackout of the opposition speeches forced one opposing MP to bring his own cameras into parliament, only to have his microphone stolen.

Since the failed coup and the introduction of emergency powers, he has ruled the country by decree and 100,000 people accused of backing the coup have been imprisoned.

It is unclear if the president will lift the state of emergency before the poll, scheduled for an unspecified date after April 2, but some of the permanent powers he seek resemble the emergency powers he currently holds.

Expect a Permanent Emergency

Expect a permanent emergency with increasing power every step of the way to Erdogan. This is likely to continue until he is overthrown in a coup, assassinated, or until Turkey disintegrates into hyperinflation.

Turkish Lira Down 62 Percent Since September 2010

Thats not close to hyperinflation material, but hyperinflation is an increasing possibility when madmen dictators are in charge.

Meanwhile, German Chancellor Angela Merkel is in bed with Erdogan who wants visa-free access to the EU for 80 million Muslim Turks.

Are German election threats and fireworks due to Erdogan coming up?

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President Recep Tayyip Erdoan became the first leader in the history of the Republic of Turkey to visit 23 African countries.

As both Prime Minister and President, Erdoan embarked on 39 trips to Africa, visiting 23 countries.

Including last week's visit to Tanzania, Mozambique and Magdagascar, President Erdoan became among the world leaders with most visits to Africa.

Turkey's recent diplomatic efforts in the continent led to Erdoan giving the most momentum to the effort aimed at opening up to Africa.

While visiting these countries, President Erdoan met with political and business leaders, signing a large number of mutual agreements between Turkey and African countries.

The number of Turkey's diplomatic missions in the continent also expanded as the number of embassies increased from 12 in 2009 to 39 today.

Turkey and Madagascar have signed four agreements on diplomacy, economy and aid as part of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's last stop in the southeast African tour. The signing ceremony took place Wednesday at the presidential palace in the capital city, Antananarivo, where Erdogan met his Malagasy counterpart President Hery Rajaonarimampianina.President Erdoan paying visit to Madagascar Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu also signed a memorandum of understanding on cooperation and consultation between the ministries of foreign affairs of Turkey and Madagascar. Cavusoglu also signed a memorandum of understanding on diplomatic training, information and document exchange. Turkish Minister of Economy Nihat Zeybekci signed a protocol on the application of aid between the two countries. Also, Turkish Radio and Television Corporation Director General Senol Goka signed a cooperation protocol between his organization and Madagascar's Radio and Television Authority. Erdogan and his delegation were in Tanzania and Mozambique before they came to Madagascar.

'Most visited country is Egypt'

In addition to being the first African country he visited in 2004, Egypt is also the African nation most visited by President Erdoan, followed by Algeria, Tunisia and Ethiopia.

With the exception of the year 2008, President Erdoan traveled to Africa at least once yearly since 2005.

In the years 2009, 2010 and 2011, Erdoan embarked on trips to Egypt, Libya, Somalia, Tunisia and South Africa.

In the years 2012 and 2013, the President visited Egypt, Gabon, Nigeria Senegal, Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia.

'Most number of visits to Africa was in 2016'

During his term as President, Erdoan embarked on several trips, visting Algeria and the Republic of Equatorial Guinea in 2014.

During his visits to East African states in 2015, Erdoan traveled to Somalia, Djibouti and Ethiopia. He embarked on a trip to 8 African countries in 2016, the year he visited the African continent the most. Countries included in the official visit were Senegal, Kenya, Uganda, Guinea, Nigeria and Ghana.

In the context of his latest visit to Africa, which took place between 22-26 January, President Erdoan embarked on an official trip to Tanzania, Mozambique and Madagascar, raising the number of African countries visited to 23.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrived in Ankara early Thursday after a five-day visit to Africa. Erdogan was welcomed by Ankara Gov. Ercan Topaca and city Gov. Melih Gokcek at Esenboga Airport. The president and a delegation traveled to Tanzania, Mozambique and Madagascar where he signed a number of economic and trade deals. The trip followed an earlier visit to the African continent last year where the Turkish president traveled to the Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Guinea, Kenya and Uganda in 2016.

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan gestures as he delivers a speech during a City Planning Council meeting at Bestepe People's Congress and Culture Center in Ankara on January 27, 2017. (Photo by AFP)

Turkey has decided to reconsider its controversial refugee deal with the European Union after the Greek Supreme Court refused to return the eight suspects allegedly linked to the countrys failed Julycoup.

A political commentator believes Turkeys response is quite threateningin terms of maintaining peace within the EU," adding that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has played this migrant card very well over the past year.

I think that Erdogan is flexing his muscles obviously and quite brazenly and pointing out that if you do not like the way I am running Turkey, just remember the position that I hold with this card, Daniel Patrick Welch told Press TV in an interview on Friday.

He also described Erdogan's use of the migrant card as a very cynical move,arguing that it is playing to the outright racistfears in Europe about the refugeescoming from countries that are being bombed by European states.

The commentator went on to say that it is ridiculous that the Europeans are trying to keep people out when they have created the refugee crisisin the first place, noting that Erdogan is keeping the key to the door and using it as a diplomatic weapon."

Elsewhere in his remarks, Welch stated that the Greek governments concern about the fate of the eight suspects is legitimate given Erdogans fanatical response to the coup with all the purging and the mass arrests, which were very scary and undemocratic for a lot of observers.

However, he said, the European polity is so obsessed with the migrant issue that they might try to force Greece to back down, because they're desperate to address this problem because the far-right has made it such an impossible political issue that they have to solve it on some level."

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In my estimation, nearly 1 million people have died in Syria. These deaths are still continuing without exception for children, women and men. Where is the United Nations? What is it doing? Is it in Iraq? No. We preached patience but could not endure in the end and had to enter Syria together with the Free Syrian Army, said Erdogan, as reported byHurriyet Daily News.The Free Syrian Army is a moderate rebel group.

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Why did we enter? We do not have an eye on Syrian soil. The issue is to provide lands to their real owners. That is to say we are there for the establishment of justice. We entered there to end the rule of the tyrant al-Assad who terrorizes with state terror, Erdogan continued, insisting his forces were not in Syria for any other reason.

TheDaily Sabahnotes that Erdogan spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin about Syria during two telephone calls last week. Since Russia launched a massive military operation to secure Bashar Assad in power, Putin would presumably have been interested in anything Erdogan had to say about toppling the regime in Damascus, and probably would not have kept quiet about it.

Erdogans calls to Putin came two days after the event widely seen as changing Turkeys posture in Syria, the death of four Turkish soldiers in an airstrike Ankara blamed on the Syrian regime. The Turkish troops were conducting a joint operation with Syrian rebels at the time.

It is clear that some people are not happy with this battle Turkey has been fighting against Daesh. This attack will surely have a retaliation, declared Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim after the airstrike on Thursday.

Turkey claims Russian officials have confirmed it was not a Russian jet that bombed the Turkish soldiers near the ISIS-occupied city of al-Bab, leaving the Syrian military the only likely suspect for the bombing. Syria has expressed displeasure over the presence of Turkish troops near al-Bab, and has threatened to respond to further incursions decisively and with force.

Syrian officials would not confirm or deny whether their aircraft hit the Turkish positions, but it didnt help ease tensions between the two countries when the Syrian government blamed Turkey for the death of its soldiers.

If the Turks want to complain they should complain to themselves. What happened was inside the territory of the Syrian Arab Republic, said Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad on Saturday, in the first public comments a Syrian official has made on the bombing.

As the Associated Press noted last week, Turkey has said its helping Syrian rebel forces attack al-Bab because taking the city would put pressure on the ISIS capital of Raqqa, creating what Erdogan called a region there that is free of terror.

Most observers suspect that Turkeys real priority is to create a region free of Kurds. Another town Erdogan has talked about capturing, Manbij, is currently held by Kurdish forces, not ISIS.

A Reuters analysis on Tuesday suggested Turkey is pulling its allies out of Aleppo, where the Syrian-Russian alliance is throwing a brutal haymaker punch at the rebellion, in order to secure the no-Kurds buffer zone along the Turkish border that Erdogan most eagerly desires. This could explain why the reaction to Erdogan technically declaring war on the Assad regime has brought such a muted response. What he called for on Tuesday is quite different than what he appears willing to settle for.

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