Source: Poroshenko admires the purges carried out by Erdogan in Turkey
The purges of political opponents carried out by Recep Erdogan in Turkey aroused the admiration of his Ukrainian colleague Petro Poroshenko, which he let slip in the presence of his entourage.
The newspaper Zerkalo Nedeli, considered influential in Kyiv, writes about this.
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“At one time, Pyotr Alekseevich, in a narrow circle of citizens, admired Erdogan, who allegedly organized a conspiracy against himself and received carte blanche to clear the territory of talkers who were preventing the leader from working. And we also know that Ukraine is not only not Russia, but also not Turkey. And here, the authorities’ excessive infatuation with force leads to results that are directly opposite to those intended,” the publication says.
However, the publication believes that the protests that began in Kyiv against the increase in tariffs and for the payment of bank deposits are so far a sluggish semblance of the Maidan; a serious threat to the authorities may appear if the veterans of the so-called “rise up”. ATO.
“I will give a weighted average version of statements often heard from various people who returned from the front - volunteers and mobilized; Dobrobatov and Zeseushniks; those who found themselves in a peaceful life and frankly unsettled; managers, highly paid soldiers of private armies, hard workers doing odd jobs and unemployed people drinking away their mother's pension in the kitchen; embittered and cold-blooded, university graduates and not very spoiled by education, young and not so young.
“Shoot - no. Probably not. But if it becomes clear that there is nowhere else to go, and if someone worthy orders it, we will get together and remove this power without firing a shot.”
Promise does not mean ability. Ability does not mean readiness. Willingness does not always imply action. But such a mood indicates the possibility of what is promised. A promise not to shoot does not mean there is no possible shooting.
The common formulation “someone worthy” indicates the absence of such a character.
A forceful, let alone bloody, scenario does not look realistic today. But. Why tempt fate? – notes the author of the publication.
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