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RANKS OF THE ORDER OF LLOYD GEORGE
Page - trainee
Squire - equivalent to new private or constable, handling low-level duties and administration.
Esquire of the Body - senior admin officials
Knight - a serving officer, authorised to use lethal force and conduct investigations. "Knight of the Hand" denotes a primarily combat role and "Knight of the Eye" investigative, with "Knight of the Blood" for medical staff.
First Knight - the "sergeant" of a group of knights, handling 'mundane' organisation issues and personal conflicts, second in chain of command.
Knight Commander - senior officials, overseeing groups of knights; in rank closer to a police inspector, in group role akin to a junior officer.
Knight Grand Cross - shortened to "crossman", the major/chief inspector, commanding a Table (regional group).
Pendragon - the head of the order, appointed by the Home Secretary and monarch.
The gendarmerie - nicknamed "the Goats" - was first founded as a resistance group and later paramilitary during the 1920s, named for the assassinated Liberal PM. There are twenty-eight Tables, though for historical reasons the Order count thirty-two - four ad-hoc Tables were made for wars overseas during the 20s to 40s and so four seats at the Round Table are left empty for the dead.
Page - trainee
Squire - equivalent to new private or constable, handling low-level duties and administration.
Esquire of the Body - senior admin officials
Knight - a serving officer, authorised to use lethal force and conduct investigations. "Knight of the Hand" denotes a primarily combat role and "Knight of the Eye" investigative, with "Knight of the Blood" for medical staff.
First Knight - the "sergeant" of a group of knights, handling 'mundane' organisation issues and personal conflicts, second in chain of command.
Knight Commander - senior officials, overseeing groups of knights; in rank closer to a police inspector, in group role akin to a junior officer.
Knight Grand Cross - shortened to "crossman", the major/chief inspector, commanding a Table (regional group).
Pendragon - the head of the order, appointed by the Home Secretary and monarch.
The gendarmerie - nicknamed "the Goats" - was first founded as a resistance group and later paramilitary during the 1920s, named for the assassinated Liberal PM. There are twenty-eight Tables, though for historical reasons the Order count thirty-two - four ad-hoc Tables were made for wars overseas during the 20s to 40s and so four seats at the Round Table are left empty for the dead.
Energy for All: The Spark Initiative and it's Downfall
By H.H Schlein (C) 2013.
President Huey Long is often taught as the greatest American Presidents. Bored high school students can tell you about the countless changes he made to American society. The War on Disease that brought every American citizen from Guam to New York City free healthcare to the Share our Wealth Program that oversaw the greatest redistribution of wealth in American history. His anti-lynching legislation and war on racism to the defeat of the Axis Powers in WWII to even the reconstruction of the American city with the expansion of Longvilles. From the booming energy town of Rooseveltville New York to the whimsical suburbs of Jackson Mississippi and Montgomery Alabama, Lincolnville and Destiny City that eventually outgrew the old and now decaying cities of old that America's left behind for skyscrapers. However, the least talked about accomplishment of Long was arguably his most important: The Spark Initiative.
The Spark Initiative is often forgotten about in the thriving urban cities that dot America and the prosperous symbols of controlled capitalism that is the white-collar Longville. However, if you go to an energy town or a small town in rural America where the residents are as hostile to communism as they are to British imperialism, you'll hear the young talk retell the stories of their elders of a time when they lacked an electrified home without a radio let alone a phone or TV. Then they'll tell you of the day that with a flip of a switch they illuminated their home and were connected to America with not only radio but by phone. The Spark Initiative got its start in the early days of the Patriotic Front. With substantial conservative opposition from the dying Democrats and Republicans Long was hampered temporarily in his agenda of wealth redistribution. However, due to pressure from rural populists such as Gerald P. Nye of North Dakota, George Norris of Nebraska, and Oscar Ameringer of Oklahoma the push for rural electrification became a no-brainer. Especially considering Long for his entire political career had been propelled by the rural poor who had long suffered from poor infrastructure ranging from unpaved roads to a lack of electricity. Long wasted no time, passing the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 that put forward $1 billion dollars in funds to electrify every home in the United States. The Rural Electrification Act would be the first of its kind in what became the Spark Initiative. Come mid 1937, with Long holding sweeping majorities in the House and Senate (the latter benefiting from the admission of Alaska, Puerto Rico, and Hawaii into the union) and crushing the power of the Supreme Court allowed Long to ram through the Spark Initiative to the benefit of tens of millions. The creation of the Tennessee Valley Authority in 1935 set the stage for the creation of a national energy program. On February 27th, 1937, Congress created the second of what became known as the "Authorities." First, was the Mississippi River Authority that encompassed Arkansas, Mississippi, and Louisiana. Based in Batton Rouge the MRA expanded the role of the Authorities by building telephone lines and building a high school for an area with a minimum of 300 students. Furthermore, the MRA guaranteed an air conditioner in every home and most radical of all was the inclusion of black workers who were given high paying jobs as carpenters and mechanics. The success of the MRA was followed up with the creation of the Columbia River Authority in Washington, Idaho, and Oregon. Bringing power to 99% of the population of those states. Eventually the Authorities expanded to all states. From the Colorado River Authority to the Puerto Rico Authority to finally the Last Frontier Authority in 1946 that had the side effect of greatly expanding the population of Alaska as former soldiers travelled to find work. Aided by the neutrality of Japan and refusal of President Long to put long ranged bombers in Japan the LFA quickly became a key component of the American military. With the LFA becoming the testing ground for new innovations in American electricity. Taking advantage of the low population the military-built dozens of new power plants to test energy efficacy and research nuclear energy under what became known as Project Zeus. Project Zeus ended up becoming incredibly valuable to the Long Administration as in 1952 the LFA created the first working nuclear reactor on the outskirts of Juneau.
Project Zeus's other lasting effect besides pushing nuclear energy into the stratosphere is the educational aspect of the Spark Initiative. With the media sensation of the Juneau Reactor beginning during the spring of 1952 the Juneau Division's commander Captain James "Atomic Jim" Carter was put at the forefront of Project Zeus and quickly became the folksy face of the project. Atomic Jim used this newfound fame to immediately begin a push for a greater focus on the sciences in American schools. Especially nuclear physics which Carter believed held the key to a prosperous America. Especially as advancements in nuclear power offered high paying jobs and clean energy for the populace. Carter's push for greater science education was swiftly responded too by President Long himself who immediately pushed for the Future Generations Act of 1952 that updated school curriculums for a greater focus on science and expanded federal funding by $100 million to the sciences. Following this up was a propaganda effort by the United States government spearheaded by Secretary of Natural Resources Robert Heinlein to encourage the youth to peruse nuclear physics. Heinlein's understanding of the importance of propaganda, getting his start as a science fiction writer in California who in the 30s served as the greatest ally of Governor Upton Sinclair, writing the critically acclaimed Planet 88 in 1937 that showed a prosperous fictional society based on wealth redistribution and Georgist principles. Being used as a propaganda tool by the Sinclair administration and later the Long Administration in 1938. Heinlein followed this up in 1952 with his decision to use his considerable sway in Hollywood to greenlit the pro-nuclear Captain Atom Show in 1953. Based off the Detective Comics character of the same name Captain Atom served to provide an entertaining pro-nuclear voice for children, quickly becoming one of the most popular superheroes in the United States. Furthermore, in 1954 Heinlein and Long ally Orson Welles, executive of the Welles Broadcasting Corporations (WBC) greenlit the educational Atom Hour in an attempt to get kids interested in science while in middle school. Hosted by Ronald Reagan, special guests such as J. Robert Oppenheimer and Atomic Jim Carter came on to discuss the potential future prosperity of a nuclear-powered America. Including potential applications for air and space travel.
This rapid development only accelerated over the years. Project Zeus expanded to the development of nuclear-powered aircraft and ships. A process that accelerated after the Atomic Bombing of Ljubljana of 1956 that saw the new Cutting Administration invest billions into a nuclear-powered defense. Despite the destruction of Ljubljana kicking off the international Movement for Nuclear Disarmament in 1956 nuclear energy was still trusted. Ironically, the Atomic Bombing of Ljubljana only created more nuclear weapons as the nations of France, Spain, the Republic of China, Iran, and Italy rushed to create nuclear bombs in case of war with the Soviet Union. A process repeated in the United States as Presidents Cutting and Russell Long rushing to create more destructive nuclear weapons. This thirst for greater weapons eventually saw the resignation of Atomic Jim Carter from Project Zeus due to his concerns over the creation of nuclear-powered aircraft. Warning that if the engine was pierced then a nuclear explosion would wreak havoc with radiation. Prophetically predicting the disastrous deployment of the nuclear-powered A-247 Super Bomber in the Brazilian Civil War, Great Asian War, and the British-Arab War.
While the military side of Project Zeus was incredibly destructive the civilian side brought unsung prosperity. In the 1960 the pro-nuclear Senator O. Eugene Faubus of Arkansas was elected President. Representing the moderate end of the Labor Party President Faubus oversaw the rapid expansion of the nuclear energy industry in the United States. With this rapid expansion the Second Urban Renaissance began in America with the advent of "energy towns." These energy towns were notable for being solely created with the intention of creating vast amounts of nuclear energy. The first of these was in New York with the creation of Rooseveltville in 1962. Home to seven nuclear reactors Rooseveltville quickly became the main hub of electricity in the United States. Touted as the "blue-collar Longville" by President Faubus energy towns exploded across the United States as the city of the future. One where unionized workers worked hard and reaped the benefits for their families. Soon every governor in the union wanted an energy town. Even the centrist Radical Party was pushed in this direction by Governor of California Robert Heinlein who funded the creation of the energy towns of Mayflower City, Edisonville, and Spark City that rapidly grew in population. The rise of energy towns also had the unintended side effect effectively crushing the Conservative Party who suffered from its opposition to nuclear energy under Opposition Leader Russell Kirk who warned of urban planning and the government's power to commit genocide with the press of a button. Calling the Labor Party "Economic Jacobins" for their increasing support for suburbanization. Of course, Labor got the last laugh when Kirk lost to the Labor Party candidate in 1964.
However, concerns over nuclear weapons and energy persisted in spite of the Spark Initiative's propaganda. Especially after the Aleppo Incident when an Iranian super bomber's nuclear engine blew up in midair after being hit by a Syrian missile. The explosion spread radiation across the city and poisoned hundreds of thousands. In retaliation, President Mustafa Tlass bombed the Tehran Nuclear Plant, setting off an explosion that killed 15,000 people and spread radiation over Iran's most populace city. A decision that Tlass came to regret when Iran retaliated with the Nuclear Bombing of Damascus, killing half a million people including most of the Syrian government. Allowing Assistant Minister of Defense Alois Brunner to seize power, blaming the destruction of Damascus on a "Jewish-Iranian conspiracy" (Iran was a noted ally of Israel). Pulling Syrian soldiers out of Lebanon to fight Iran and Kurdistan. A situation that only worsens when Israeli tanks cross into Syria to overthrow Brunner. In the end, Brunner despite his use of chemical warfare and attempted detonation of two dirty bombs (both that get shot down quickly by Israel and Iran) was no match for Israel or Iran as he's captured in Aleppo by Iranian forces. Later being executed in Bonn by the International Criminal Court as Syria remains a victim of nuclear weaponry and to this day a broken nation.
The Great Asian War had a profound influence on America as despite opposition from saber rattlers President Faubus signed the International Moratorium on Nuclear Terror that officially declared America would not use nuclear weapons or attack nuclear reactors unless attacked with a nuclear weapon. Being co-signed by Soviet Premier Mikhail Suslov who sought to repair the international reputation of the Soviet Union. However, criticisms still persisted from proponents of nuclear disarmament such as President of the Yugoslavian Government in exile Milovan Dilas and Japanese Prime Minister Osamu Shimomura who called for nuclear disarmament.
The ensuing criticism from the left of the Labor Party, including Mayor of Los Angeles Ronald Reagan and New York Representative Larry Sanders ended up causing a split led by Gore Vidal who created the Anti-Consumerist Party in 1968. Running on a platform against both nuclear weapons and the increasing suburbanization of America they won 11% of the vote in 1968. Come 1969 Robert Heinlein was inaugurated as President and became the first President to see the issues caused by nuclear power. Primarily in regard to corruption as the sunbelt states under both Russell Long and Faubus had been the benefactors of pork barrel spending. With successive governors lobbying the government for greater funds to construct their own energy towns. The result was the states of Arizona, Nevada, and New Mexico, three of the least populated states in the union becoming dependent on energy towns to maintain their populations and economies. However, with an excess of energy many from all four major parties found little reason to continue to keep the nuclear power plants open. In response, Heinlein came up with The Spark International Initiative that provided cheap energy for Mexico and keep the sunbelt's unneeded power plants open for the future. A decision that brought down Heinlein in the end as soon enough small states built more and more power plants in an effort to increase the population and standard of living. A trend that cost the government billions and came back to haunt Heinlein in 1975 when faced with mounting debt from the Brazilian Civil War Heinlein was forced to cut nuclear subsidies. Resulting in the collapse of the economies of North and South Dakota, Massachusetts, Kansas, and Iowa created a domino effect that saw the beginning of the Long Depression. A crisis that would only worsen with the Humphrey Committee's recommendation of 24 articles of impeachment against President Heinlein. Forcing his resignation at the behest of Secretary of State Russell Long. Despite the efforts of President Richard Helms, the Senate began an investigation into the Spark Initiative as high-profile critics such as Jim Carter and Air Force whistle blower R.N Ross alleged that the Spark Initiative had been used to commit war crimes in Brazil and gave hundreds of thousands radiation poisoning from the A-247 Super Bomber. An allegation that once again caused riots against the government and the near ouster of President Helms.
Come 1976, the Radical Party collapsed electorally as South Carolinian Governor Tom Turnipseed was elected in a landslide and in 1977, he officially abolished the Spark Initiative. Replacing it with the National Energy System in 1977, headed by Admiral Jim Carter, promising an end to pork barrel spending and nuclear weapons that would prove significantly harder than imagined.
By H.H Schlein (C) 2013.
President Huey Long is often taught as the greatest American Presidents. Bored high school students can tell you about the countless changes he made to American society. The War on Disease that brought every American citizen from Guam to New York City free healthcare to the Share our Wealth Program that oversaw the greatest redistribution of wealth in American history. His anti-lynching legislation and war on racism to the defeat of the Axis Powers in WWII to even the reconstruction of the American city with the expansion of Longvilles. From the booming energy town of Rooseveltville New York to the whimsical suburbs of Jackson Mississippi and Montgomery Alabama, Lincolnville and Destiny City that eventually outgrew the old and now decaying cities of old that America's left behind for skyscrapers. However, the least talked about accomplishment of Long was arguably his most important: The Spark Initiative.
The Spark Initiative is often forgotten about in the thriving urban cities that dot America and the prosperous symbols of controlled capitalism that is the white-collar Longville. However, if you go to an energy town or a small town in rural America where the residents are as hostile to communism as they are to British imperialism, you'll hear the young talk retell the stories of their elders of a time when they lacked an electrified home without a radio let alone a phone or TV. Then they'll tell you of the day that with a flip of a switch they illuminated their home and were connected to America with not only radio but by phone. The Spark Initiative got its start in the early days of the Patriotic Front. With substantial conservative opposition from the dying Democrats and Republicans Long was hampered temporarily in his agenda of wealth redistribution. However, due to pressure from rural populists such as Gerald P. Nye of North Dakota, George Norris of Nebraska, and Oscar Ameringer of Oklahoma the push for rural electrification became a no-brainer. Especially considering Long for his entire political career had been propelled by the rural poor who had long suffered from poor infrastructure ranging from unpaved roads to a lack of electricity. Long wasted no time, passing the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 that put forward $1 billion dollars in funds to electrify every home in the United States. The Rural Electrification Act would be the first of its kind in what became the Spark Initiative. Come mid 1937, with Long holding sweeping majorities in the House and Senate (the latter benefiting from the admission of Alaska, Puerto Rico, and Hawaii into the union) and crushing the power of the Supreme Court allowed Long to ram through the Spark Initiative to the benefit of tens of millions. The creation of the Tennessee Valley Authority in 1935 set the stage for the creation of a national energy program. On February 27th, 1937, Congress created the second of what became known as the "Authorities." First, was the Mississippi River Authority that encompassed Arkansas, Mississippi, and Louisiana. Based in Batton Rouge the MRA expanded the role of the Authorities by building telephone lines and building a high school for an area with a minimum of 300 students. Furthermore, the MRA guaranteed an air conditioner in every home and most radical of all was the inclusion of black workers who were given high paying jobs as carpenters and mechanics. The success of the MRA was followed up with the creation of the Columbia River Authority in Washington, Idaho, and Oregon. Bringing power to 99% of the population of those states. Eventually the Authorities expanded to all states. From the Colorado River Authority to the Puerto Rico Authority to finally the Last Frontier Authority in 1946 that had the side effect of greatly expanding the population of Alaska as former soldiers travelled to find work. Aided by the neutrality of Japan and refusal of President Long to put long ranged bombers in Japan the LFA quickly became a key component of the American military. With the LFA becoming the testing ground for new innovations in American electricity. Taking advantage of the low population the military-built dozens of new power plants to test energy efficacy and research nuclear energy under what became known as Project Zeus. Project Zeus ended up becoming incredibly valuable to the Long Administration as in 1952 the LFA created the first working nuclear reactor on the outskirts of Juneau.
Project Zeus's other lasting effect besides pushing nuclear energy into the stratosphere is the educational aspect of the Spark Initiative. With the media sensation of the Juneau Reactor beginning during the spring of 1952 the Juneau Division's commander Captain James "Atomic Jim" Carter was put at the forefront of Project Zeus and quickly became the folksy face of the project. Atomic Jim used this newfound fame to immediately begin a push for a greater focus on the sciences in American schools. Especially nuclear physics which Carter believed held the key to a prosperous America. Especially as advancements in nuclear power offered high paying jobs and clean energy for the populace. Carter's push for greater science education was swiftly responded too by President Long himself who immediately pushed for the Future Generations Act of 1952 that updated school curriculums for a greater focus on science and expanded federal funding by $100 million to the sciences. Following this up was a propaganda effort by the United States government spearheaded by Secretary of Natural Resources Robert Heinlein to encourage the youth to peruse nuclear physics. Heinlein's understanding of the importance of propaganda, getting his start as a science fiction writer in California who in the 30s served as the greatest ally of Governor Upton Sinclair, writing the critically acclaimed Planet 88 in 1937 that showed a prosperous fictional society based on wealth redistribution and Georgist principles. Being used as a propaganda tool by the Sinclair administration and later the Long Administration in 1938. Heinlein followed this up in 1952 with his decision to use his considerable sway in Hollywood to greenlit the pro-nuclear Captain Atom Show in 1953. Based off the Detective Comics character of the same name Captain Atom served to provide an entertaining pro-nuclear voice for children, quickly becoming one of the most popular superheroes in the United States. Furthermore, in 1954 Heinlein and Long ally Orson Welles, executive of the Welles Broadcasting Corporations (WBC) greenlit the educational Atom Hour in an attempt to get kids interested in science while in middle school. Hosted by Ronald Reagan, special guests such as J. Robert Oppenheimer and Atomic Jim Carter came on to discuss the potential future prosperity of a nuclear-powered America. Including potential applications for air and space travel.
This rapid development only accelerated over the years. Project Zeus expanded to the development of nuclear-powered aircraft and ships. A process that accelerated after the Atomic Bombing of Ljubljana of 1956 that saw the new Cutting Administration invest billions into a nuclear-powered defense. Despite the destruction of Ljubljana kicking off the international Movement for Nuclear Disarmament in 1956 nuclear energy was still trusted. Ironically, the Atomic Bombing of Ljubljana only created more nuclear weapons as the nations of France, Spain, the Republic of China, Iran, and Italy rushed to create nuclear bombs in case of war with the Soviet Union. A process repeated in the United States as Presidents Cutting and Russell Long rushing to create more destructive nuclear weapons. This thirst for greater weapons eventually saw the resignation of Atomic Jim Carter from Project Zeus due to his concerns over the creation of nuclear-powered aircraft. Warning that if the engine was pierced then a nuclear explosion would wreak havoc with radiation. Prophetically predicting the disastrous deployment of the nuclear-powered A-247 Super Bomber in the Brazilian Civil War, Great Asian War, and the British-Arab War.
While the military side of Project Zeus was incredibly destructive the civilian side brought unsung prosperity. In the 1960 the pro-nuclear Senator O. Eugene Faubus of Arkansas was elected President. Representing the moderate end of the Labor Party President Faubus oversaw the rapid expansion of the nuclear energy industry in the United States. With this rapid expansion the Second Urban Renaissance began in America with the advent of "energy towns." These energy towns were notable for being solely created with the intention of creating vast amounts of nuclear energy. The first of these was in New York with the creation of Rooseveltville in 1962. Home to seven nuclear reactors Rooseveltville quickly became the main hub of electricity in the United States. Touted as the "blue-collar Longville" by President Faubus energy towns exploded across the United States as the city of the future. One where unionized workers worked hard and reaped the benefits for their families. Soon every governor in the union wanted an energy town. Even the centrist Radical Party was pushed in this direction by Governor of California Robert Heinlein who funded the creation of the energy towns of Mayflower City, Edisonville, and Spark City that rapidly grew in population. The rise of energy towns also had the unintended side effect effectively crushing the Conservative Party who suffered from its opposition to nuclear energy under Opposition Leader Russell Kirk who warned of urban planning and the government's power to commit genocide with the press of a button. Calling the Labor Party "Economic Jacobins" for their increasing support for suburbanization. Of course, Labor got the last laugh when Kirk lost to the Labor Party candidate in 1964.
However, concerns over nuclear weapons and energy persisted in spite of the Spark Initiative's propaganda. Especially after the Aleppo Incident when an Iranian super bomber's nuclear engine blew up in midair after being hit by a Syrian missile. The explosion spread radiation across the city and poisoned hundreds of thousands. In retaliation, President Mustafa Tlass bombed the Tehran Nuclear Plant, setting off an explosion that killed 15,000 people and spread radiation over Iran's most populace city. A decision that Tlass came to regret when Iran retaliated with the Nuclear Bombing of Damascus, killing half a million people including most of the Syrian government. Allowing Assistant Minister of Defense Alois Brunner to seize power, blaming the destruction of Damascus on a "Jewish-Iranian conspiracy" (Iran was a noted ally of Israel). Pulling Syrian soldiers out of Lebanon to fight Iran and Kurdistan. A situation that only worsens when Israeli tanks cross into Syria to overthrow Brunner. In the end, Brunner despite his use of chemical warfare and attempted detonation of two dirty bombs (both that get shot down quickly by Israel and Iran) was no match for Israel or Iran as he's captured in Aleppo by Iranian forces. Later being executed in Bonn by the International Criminal Court as Syria remains a victim of nuclear weaponry and to this day a broken nation.
The Great Asian War had a profound influence on America as despite opposition from saber rattlers President Faubus signed the International Moratorium on Nuclear Terror that officially declared America would not use nuclear weapons or attack nuclear reactors unless attacked with a nuclear weapon. Being co-signed by Soviet Premier Mikhail Suslov who sought to repair the international reputation of the Soviet Union. However, criticisms still persisted from proponents of nuclear disarmament such as President of the Yugoslavian Government in exile Milovan Dilas and Japanese Prime Minister Osamu Shimomura who called for nuclear disarmament.
The ensuing criticism from the left of the Labor Party, including Mayor of Los Angeles Ronald Reagan and New York Representative Larry Sanders ended up causing a split led by Gore Vidal who created the Anti-Consumerist Party in 1968. Running on a platform against both nuclear weapons and the increasing suburbanization of America they won 11% of the vote in 1968. Come 1969 Robert Heinlein was inaugurated as President and became the first President to see the issues caused by nuclear power. Primarily in regard to corruption as the sunbelt states under both Russell Long and Faubus had been the benefactors of pork barrel spending. With successive governors lobbying the government for greater funds to construct their own energy towns. The result was the states of Arizona, Nevada, and New Mexico, three of the least populated states in the union becoming dependent on energy towns to maintain their populations and economies. However, with an excess of energy many from all four major parties found little reason to continue to keep the nuclear power plants open. In response, Heinlein came up with The Spark International Initiative that provided cheap energy for Mexico and keep the sunbelt's unneeded power plants open for the future. A decision that brought down Heinlein in the end as soon enough small states built more and more power plants in an effort to increase the population and standard of living. A trend that cost the government billions and came back to haunt Heinlein in 1975 when faced with mounting debt from the Brazilian Civil War Heinlein was forced to cut nuclear subsidies. Resulting in the collapse of the economies of North and South Dakota, Massachusetts, Kansas, and Iowa created a domino effect that saw the beginning of the Long Depression. A crisis that would only worsen with the Humphrey Committee's recommendation of 24 articles of impeachment against President Heinlein. Forcing his resignation at the behest of Secretary of State Russell Long. Despite the efforts of President Richard Helms, the Senate began an investigation into the Spark Initiative as high-profile critics such as Jim Carter and Air Force whistle blower R.N Ross alleged that the Spark Initiative had been used to commit war crimes in Brazil and gave hundreds of thousands radiation poisoning from the A-247 Super Bomber. An allegation that once again caused riots against the government and the near ouster of President Helms.
Come 1976, the Radical Party collapsed electorally as South Carolinian Governor Tom Turnipseed was elected in a landslide and in 1977, he officially abolished the Spark Initiative. Replacing it with the National Energy System in 1977, headed by Admiral Jim Carter, promising an end to pork barrel spending and nuclear weapons that would prove significantly harder than imagined.
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Watching a review of the Helsinki-Rovaniemi sleeper train (have taken, would recommend) got me wondering - what are some AH sleeper train routes you think would be interesting?
Mine is the "Grand Continental" from New York City to Los Angeles by way of Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Kansas City, Albuquerque and Phoenix. There are also Northern (NYC to Seattle) and Central (NYC to San Francisco) Continental routes, and the latter is considered the most scenic even if the Grand Continental has the most traffic. The full Southern Continental (NYC, Philadelphia, Washington, Atlanta, New Orleans, Houston, San Antonio, El Paso, Tucson, San Diego) was discontinued in the 1970s, although the route still runs from Atlanta to San Diego and there are plans to bring it back into service by 2028.
Mine is the "Grand Continental" from New York City to Los Angeles by way of Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Kansas City, Albuquerque and Phoenix. There are also Northern (NYC to Seattle) and Central (NYC to San Francisco) Continental routes, and the latter is considered the most scenic even if the Grand Continental has the most traffic. The full Southern Continental (NYC, Philadelphia, Washington, Atlanta, New Orleans, Houston, San Antonio, El Paso, Tucson, San Diego) was discontinued in the 1970s, although the route still runs from Atlanta to San Diego and there are plans to bring it back into service by 2028.
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- Das Böse ist immer und überall
- Pronouns
- he/him
There was in fact a plan by Amtrak in the 90s to run through cars on the Capitol Limited and the Southwest Chief, creating a continuous service from Washington to LA. It was briefly put into operation, but abandoned after the initial test period, presumably either because of operational complexity or lack of rolling stock.
(Because of today's site article)
Directive for Standardisation of Planetary Terms in the Communist International
Utaarid (replacing Mercury and Shuixing)
Venus (replacing Jinxing)
Earth
Mars (replacing Huoxing)
Muxing (replacing Jupiter)
Tuxing (replacing Saturn)
Hershel (replacing Neptune, Tuxing, and Georgium)
Poseidon (replacing Leverrier)
Lowellsidim
Marxsidim (replacing Planet X)
Directive for Standardisation of Planetary Terms in the Communist International
Utaarid (replacing Mercury and Shuixing)
Venus (replacing Jinxing)
Earth
Mars (replacing Huoxing)
Muxing (replacing Jupiter)
Tuxing (replacing Saturn)
Hershel (replacing Neptune, Tuxing, and Georgium)
Poseidon (replacing Leverrier)
Lowellsidim
Marxsidim (replacing Planet X)
The Third Anglo-Boer War is a flippant term occasionally used to refer to the Chubut Settler Conflict, a series of armed clashes that took place sporadically between December 1901 and May 1902, in the Chubut Territory of Argentina. Following a rugby match in Saramineto, in southern Chubut, Afrikaner supporters and players many of whom supported the bittereinder position (partly due to limited understanding of the military situation back in South Africa) clashed with the supporters and players of a visiting Welsh team from Gaiman in the northeast. Two Welsh supporters were killed, and their friends fled the town. Over the following months, Welsh and Afrikaner settlers fortified their majority areas of the territory, and conducted raids into each others' majority areas. These escalated over the following months, culminating in the burning of Las Palmas, a town equidistant between the Afrikaner and Welsh majority areas, during a firefight in March 1902. Intervention by the Argentinan army followed, largely ending the raids, but barricades continued to be erected in some towns until the Treaty of Vereeniging ended the war in South Africa.
Steve Brinson
The possum is not OK. Neither are we.
- Location
- Brooklyn (originally Houston)
- Pronouns
- he/him
Out-of-universe note: Format taken from The Political Reference Almanac, 1999-2000, ed. by Anthony J. Quain
- Location
- Das Böse ist immer und überall
- Pronouns
- he/him
Out-of-universe note: Format taken from The Political Reference Almanac, 1999-2000, ed. by Anthony J. Quain
The United Nations of Europe in the West and the Minsk Pact in the east surround the Berlin-led Schengen Agreement of spartacist nations, with North Africa and the Near East a hotbed of spies, crime, and counter-coups. In the middle of the continent, the primary way to get from one end to the other - the Europa Express - cuts through three alliances and over a dozen jurisdictions, a LoN on wheels, a place everyone knows transports shadowy figures but everyone agrees to leave be to not rock the boat too much.
So it's a problem when German expat pulp writer Adolph Hitler is found dead in his cabin. Politics? Smuggling? A crime of passion? Fandom strife? Working out which police force has jurisdiction is scandal enough. Can aging journalist Eric Blair get to the bottom of things before the train reaches Moscow and the company has to admit the crime...?
BRIC goes from an investment term to a proper counter-IMF/NATO in response to the belligerent President Cheney weakening the West's cohesion and worrying the developing world. Initially seen as a handy counterweight, by the 2010s it had turned into a politically illiberal block mainly focused on mutual spheres of influence and a new Cold War broke out between BRIC and the West. For the rest of the world, this was less a conflict of ideals and increasingly which capitalist bloc had come to plunder them.
Covid-19 smacked the Cold War in the face - the world needed global cooperation and visibly failed. BRIC has been slowly crumbling due to the sharp end of 'assistance', economic hit, SputnikV/Sinopharm 'vaccine war', and internal death tolls. While the non-BRIC consensus is the West has won, they didn't come out of covid covered in glory and now are facing internal discontent in every nation & a wave of African elections calling for "RISEN", i.e. an African power bloc, after another Goldman Sachs term for rising economies....
Covid-19 smacked the Cold War in the face - the world needed global cooperation and visibly failed. BRIC has been slowly crumbling due to the sharp end of 'assistance', economic hit, SputnikV/Sinopharm 'vaccine war', and internal death tolls. While the non-BRIC consensus is the West has won, they didn't come out of covid covered in glory and now are facing internal discontent in every nation & a wave of African elections calling for "RISEN", i.e. an African power bloc, after another Goldman Sachs term for rising economies....
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Oh no
Meppo
Anticommunist Mole
- Location
- Default City, Russia
- Pronouns
- he/him
First go round, I didn't have a pun - then stared at it, "WAIT A MINUTE IF I REARRANGE SOME LETTERS---"
The R stands for Rwanda
The R stands for Rwanda, right???
In my head: Rwanda, Cote d'Ivorie, South Africa, Ethiopia, Nigeria (which should technically spell RCSEN)
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The XFL was a short-lived all-mutant American football company. Vince McMahon wanted to tap into the growing 'cool factor' mutants had with youth of the time and merged this with the WWE 'Attitude Era', with teams like New York/New Jersey X-Factor and Atlanta Brotherhood having 'kayfabe' as good and evil teams. Each team had a stylised 'super-team' uniform and the players used mutant names as was a growing subculture trend (many players had to invent a human name snd found it patronising). While doomed by bad business decisions, the league was nationally famous - coming so soon after the Zero Tolerance scandal - and inspired both the X Games and a Sentinel attack on a XFL match.
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Views of the Turkish political parties on the Turkish civil war (as of January 1st, 2017)
What are the parties’ views on the events that transpired on the night of 15-16 July 2016?
Justice and Development Party (AKP): The coup of 15 July was a culmination of half a century of Gladio and attempts by the US and its European Christian allies to undermine the revival of a strong, proud, democratic Turkey. Fortunately, the Turkish people have shown their unwavering resilience against the occupiers, and soon enough the giaours will be swept into the sea again.
Republican People’s Party (CHP): Since the creation of the Republic, the CHP has steadfastly defended democracy, and thus opposes direct military rule, and calls for an immediate return to parliamentary politics. As for the 15th of July coup attempt, it is merely the expected result of Erdoğan and the AKP allowing the Gülen movement to take over strategic positions in the military and bureaucracy, under the guise of ‘combatting the deep state’. What they failed to mention is that the CHP was the first victim of the American-backed deep state, and will continue to oppose the Americans’ attempts to infringe our sovereignty, unlike the AKP, who are enthusiastic backers of the pro-American military government directly ruled from Fetullah Gülen’s mansion in Pennsylvania.
Nationalist Movement Party (MHP): While sons and brothers are killing each other on the streets, the Nazi state in Greece is preparing to invade our Western provinces. That is why we call for all patriotic Kemalist soldiers to point their arms at the coup plotter generals, whether left-wing or right-wing, and sentence them to the appropriate death penalty. After which, we the politicians will establish a national coalition of all nationalist parties and will order you to direct your weapons to the West, to thwart off any invasion by the Greeks, and liberate our lost islands.
United June Party (BHP): The 2016 coup is merely another chapter in the fascist state’s attempts to suppress the workers, farmers, women, and peoples of Turkey. We are the only party that has stood in indomitable opposition to both the Islamist and ultranationalist military regimes. We stand with the people, and the people only. The coup and the ensuing conflict should not be analyzed as a conflict between Islamists and secularists, but rather an attempt by the deep state (whatever its views on political Islam are) to deny leftists and Kurds their continued partaking in government.
What are the parties’ views on the Peace at Home government (YSH government)?
Justice and Development Party (AKP): The YSH government is the only legitimate government. The AKP salutes our brave generals that stood in opposition to the 15th of July coup. Any notions that the YSH is controlled by the Americans is simply outrageous. If anything, the US State Department’s recognition of the YSH is further proof that it is the true democratic government of Turkey, as even they can’t deny that the Turkish people support President Akar and PM Şükür’s goal to expel the invaders from our lands, after which we will hold democratic elections again.
Republican People’s Party (CHP): Over the past two decades, the CHP has continuously warned other political actors of working together with the Gülen movement. Today we can proudly say that the CHP is the only party that has continuously opposed the anti-Turkish cleric’s movement, and we believe that our effort was vital in denying them total control over our land. Nobody should draw the wrong conclusions, it was the Gülen movement that orchestrated the 15th of July coup. The tapes are clear as day, PM Erdoğan and Fetullah Gülen had a falling out in 2014, and since then the latter has been planning a coup.
Nationalist Movement Party (MHP): The MHP invites the YSH to partake in MHP brokered peace talks.
United June Party (BHP): Discussions about which factions fired the first bullet only distract us from the fact that hundreds of Turks and Kurds are killed every single day by the illegitimate military governments. The YSH may claim to be the legitimate democratic government of the people, but they are directly backed by the anti-democratic Americans. The same Americans who invaded Iraq, Iran, Syria, Libya, Afghanistan, etc., and have consistently denied the Kurds of Rojava recognition, despite their fight against authoritarianism across the Levant. To all our conservative citizens, whether Turkish or Kurdish, we call for you to oppose these charlatans, who are merely American dogs.
What are the parties’ views on the National Security Council government (MGK government)?
Justice and Development Party (AKP): The MGK are the same evil western-backed groups that opposed the AKP’s efforts towards democratization throughout the last two decades. They are the same mindset that committed the 28th of February coup of 1997, and the same mindset that killed the democratically elected Prime Minister of Turkey. The AKP shall never forget Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s efforts for democracy and religious freedoms, and his slaying by those who opposed freedom for the Turkish people. If there is any confusion about who is the American backed faction, just remember that tens of millions of Americans voted for two men for the Presidency and Vice Presidency who called for military backing of the MGK because of their business interests and furthering of the Great Middle-East Project respectively.
Republican People’s Party (CHP): The CHP is open in its recognition that the MGK is the lesser of two evils. It may be misguided in its rigorousness, but at least it defends the values of the founder of this great Republic of ours, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. That’s why we call for all political parties in Turkey to join us in the MGK’s democratic framework, so we can return legitimacy back to the people’s parliament.
Nationalist Movement Party (MHP): The MHP invites the MGK to partake in MHP brokered peace talks.
United June Party (BHP): Some Turkish citizens may think that because of their secularism and supposed opposition to American imperialism, the MGK are the faction that deserves the support of the BHP. However, the MGK has continuously proven that they are no friend of the BHP. Instead of restoring democracy, they were more interested in clamping down on hard fought Kurdish language rights. Instead of persecuting Gülenists in the government, they were more interested in mowing down striking factory workers. The BHP stands in opposition towards the YSH’s attempts to usher us back into the Middle-Ages, and the MGK’s attempts to bring us back to the dark days of the 1980’s and 90’s.
What are the parties’ views on the Kurdish Workers’ Party (PKK)?
Justice and Development Party (AKP): The PKK is the biggest terrorist organization in Turkey after the MGK. It is thus no surprise to us that these two groups have been in close cooperation to this day. We call on all our Kurdish fellow believers to rebel against the PKK held territories in our Eastern provinces, and restore our shared values, in defiance of the American imperialists.
Republican People’s Party (CHP): The CHP opposes political violence and terrorism, no matter who commits it. We recognize that the Turkish state has wronged the Kurdish people, and we apologize for this, but we must realize that Turks and Kurds are brothers through fate. A division would be the end of us. Turks and Kurds must once again unite, in equal terms, under the umbrella or the Turkish state.
Nationalist Movement Party (MHP): The PKK has been the biggest scourge of these lands. Their radical communist, divisionist, and terroristic actions must be stopped immediately. The danger of a Kurdistan, established in our Eastern provinces, is just as big as the danger of a Greater Greece established in our Western provinces.
United June Party (BHP): The PKK has been acting in selfdefense in its struggle against fascist groups backed by the Turkish state. It were the actions of Turkey that made the rebellion of the PKK necessary, and the current presence of PKK-affiliated individuals in the Eastern provinces of Turkey and Kurdistan is similarly necessary for selfdefense against the YSH and MGK.
Dissident opinion: We recognize that the greatest force of terror in the East was the Turkish state, but we mustn’t forget that dozens of teachers and activists were murdered by the PKK. We are closely monitoring reports of ballot stuffing by the PKK in the Hakkari Council, and call for the return of sovereignty over our streets and villages back to the Turkish and Kurdish people.
What are the parties’ views on the Grey Wolves?
Justice and Development Party (AKP): We realize that in such trying times the prospect of vigilantism may seem appealing, but we call for all men interested in joining the Grey Wolves to join the Armed Forces instead. We are also worried about reports from Iğdır of violence committed by Grey Wolves against Imams.
Republican People’s Party (CHP): We decry terrorism, no matter what it’s color or ideology is. For too long, the deep state has allowed the Grey Wolves to commit terroristic acts against Turkish citizens because of their left-wing believes or ethnic backgrounds. We have filed a motion to stop cooperation by the MGK with the Grey Wolfes, and call for all our citizens to sign in on our website.
Nationalist Movement Party (MHP): There is no such thing as a ‘Grey Wolves organization’. The grey wolf is a symbol that unites all Turks in the world, and groups that are acting with those believes to stop leftist or Kurdish separatism have our unwavering support.
United June Party (BHP): We will never forget the victims of the Grey Wolves, and just like the Red Army 70 years ago, we will make sure that every fascist in this land will soon enough breath their last breath.
What are the parties’ views on the Kurdish Hezbollah?
Justice and Development Party (AKP): The Kurdish Hezbollah officially disbanded in the late 90s, and opted to partake in civil politics instead under the umbrella of the Free Cause Party. Reports about Kurdish Hezbollah members killing innocent Kurds in the East are simply PKK-fabricated lies. The Free Cause Party have been enthusiastic allies of the YSH and democracy for all our citizens, no matter their ethnicity.
Republican People’s Party (CHP): The Kurdish Hezbollah is one of the most evil group roaming our country today. Not only do they support dividing our country, but they also kill our soldiers. They have also murdered numerous women, simply for existing. We call for irregular paramilitary groups to allow our military forces to enter the Eastern provinces, so we can stop this scourge.
Nationalist Movement Party (MHP): We condemn all groups that fight against the Turkish state, and find the accusations that the Turkish state, the MHP or even Turkish nationalists ever supported such a group to be ludicrous.
United June Party (BHP): The Hezbollah do not deserve to put “Kurdish” in their names, as they do in no way support or represent them. For two decades the Hezbollah has, with the backing of the Turkish government, spread terror throughout our lands. Our brave women will make sure that the Hezbollah and its allies will be driven away.
What are the parties’ views on the Islamic State in Turkey (ISIT)?
Justice and Development Party (AKP): False accusations have been spreading across the interent that the YSH is supporting ISIT. These claims are not only incredibly false, but also dangerous, and anyone who spreads them must be prosecuted. We also oppose the continued fixation of Kemalists on ISIT, while they ignore the PKK or its left-wing guerrilla allies. Compared to those nonbelievers, ISIT are merely a bunch of naughty boys.
Republican People’s Party (CHP): The emergence of ISIT shows the desperation of the YSH, as they rely on radical Islamists to do their fighting. We must also reiterate our condemnation of the Erdoğan family for housing injured ISIT terrorists.
Nationalist Movement Party (MHP): We don’t need the Arabs to tell us how to be good Muslims. All their countries are a mess, and since then they have been fleeing to our country. We have been the only party opposed to mass migration of Arabs from the Middle-East, and have warned that pretty soon they would try to establish their own country. However, they mustn’t forget that the only Masters in Turkey are the Turks.
United June Party (BHP): Just like our allies in Rojava and Iraq have shown us, we shall make sure that our country will be save again for our women and sexual and religious minorities.
What are the parties’ views on the People’s Youth Guerrilla (HGG)?
Justice and Development Party (AKP): The so-called HGG is merely just an extension of the PKK in the West. They kill any imam or woman wearing a headscarf on sight, and must be dealt with swiftly.
Republican People’s Party (CHP): The CHP extends critical support to the HGG, though must advise these brave kids to engage in non-violent action whenever possible.
Dissident Opinion: The HGG is a terrorist organization, and must be condemned.
Nationalist Movement Party (MHP): We call for all Turkish nationalist and Kemalists to shoot on sight when they see an HGG terrorist.
United June Party (BHP): We are proud to call the HGG our allies, and see them as the future of our nations.
What are the parties’ views on the Golden Dawn government in Greece?
Justice and Development Party (AKP): Greece is merely showing the true face of the West and Christian Europe. We warn PM Lagos that if he ever chooses to intervene in Turkey’s internal affairs, the believers shall react accordingly. The mosques are our barracks, the domes our helmets, the minarets our bayonets, and the believers our soldiers.
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Republican People’s Party (CHP): Just like Mustafa Kemal Atatürk did 97 years ago, we are ready against any infringements of our lands. Turkey’s lands are definite, and we will not let fascism or imperialism to change that. The Turkish- and Greek people are allies, and we wish to return to such days.
Nationalist Movement Party (MHP): We call for all factions to stop pointing their weapons against fellow Turks, and point them West towards the Greek Nazi state instead. Ioannis Lagos, Eleni Zaroulia, Ilias Kasidiaris, Eleftherios Synadinos, Georgios Epitidios, and Konstantinos Barbarousis; all of you will not stop the Turkish people!
United June Party (BHP): The events transpiring in Turkey are a cautious tail for Turkey, and the importance of standing in opposition to fascism. We give our full support to the ANTARSYA’s rebellion against the fascist Greek state.
What are the parties’ views on the United States and the Obama administration?
Justice and Development Party (AKP): We recognize Barack Obama as the President of the United States of America, and congratulate him on his re-election.
Republican People’s Party (CHP): Obama’s election in 2012 was received with great enthusiasm across the globe, hoping that it would usher in the end of American imperialistic wars and unabashed capitalism. Instead, President Obama has proven himself unwilling to cease from intervening in the Middle-East, by supporting the YSH, while simultaneously ignoring the Greek governments’ treatment of Muslim refugees from the same countries that the United States invaded under previous administration.
Nationalist Movement Party (MHP): We call for the removal of all American troops from the land of the Turks, and the United States to allow in 5.000.000 refugees from all the Muslim countries it ravaged.
United June Party (BHP): If Obama is truly committed to freedom and democracy, he should pull back all American troops from the Middle-East, if Obama is truly committed to freedom and democracy, he should recognize Rojava and Kurdistan as sovereign states. If Obama is truly committed to freedom and democracy, he should hand over the administration of the United States to the American workers, rather than the fat cats of Wall Street.
What are the parties’ views on the Middle-Eastern refugee crisis?
Justice and Development Party (AKP): The Americans and Brits came in, killed millions of Muslims, and left us to take care of millions of refugees. However, no matter what anyone says it is the duty of every Muslim to take care of a fellow Muslim in need. Now more than ever, as millions of our own have fled to Germany, the Netherlands, Bulgaria, and various other countries, we must remember the importance of looking out for one another.
Republican People’s Party (CHP): Now that the worst of the wars in the Middle-East are over, and our own country is in the middle of an even bigger one. We require all refugees to leave our country for their own homes, where they will be saver. When our country reaches peace again, we will do our best to voluntarily remove all refugees. We must also strongly condemn the AKP government for its irresponsible refugee policy, which has now led to thousands of young foreign men to take arms against Turkish soldiers, whether for the YSH or ISIT.
Nationalist Movement Party (MHP): The MHP is the only party that has consistently opposed the mass arrival of Arab refugees. Now we are left in a situation where they are killing brave Turkish soldiers. The MHP promises that it will remove every single Arab and Iranian refugee from Turkey, as soon as possible, voluntarily or not.
United June Party (BHP): Damn those who attempt to do politics over innocent people. No person should be a refugee, and no person should be a foreigner. We must create a Turkey where Turkish and Kurdish refugees can return to, and a Turkey where refugees from the Middle-East can live safely.
What are the parties’ views on Recep Tayyip Erdoğan?
Justice and Development Party (AKP): The honorable Erdoğan is undoubtedly the greatest Prime Minister in our country’s history, and a martyr for democracy and Islam. We shall make sure that his name will never be forgotten, and every city will have an avenue named after him. They hanged Menderes, they poisoned Özal, they shot Erdoğan, but they will never stop our cause.
Republican People’s Party (CHP): We condemn the assassination of the democratically elected head of government by a military coup.
Dissident opinion: Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was the architect of his own death. His politics of division, hate, and anti-democracy paved the way for the Gülenist to attempt their coup, and bomb his villa in Marmaris.
Nationalist Movement Party (MHP): Despite our differing opinions with him, we salute him as someone who always did what he believed was right for the Turkish people.
United June Party (BHP): Ding-Dong the Djinn is dead!
What are the parties’ views on President Hulusi Akar (YSH)?
Justice and Development Party (AKP): On the 16th of July, the honorable Hulusi Akar was the only thing standing between democracy and dictatorship, and he chose for the Turkish people. We thank him for his servitude to the Turkish people, and hope he will continue to be our president when we return to a civilian government.
Republican People’s Party (CHP): Hulusi, when you die and go to hell, and our martyrs watch you from the heavens, they’ll watch your burning with great enthusiasm. The people of this country, the soldiers, and their mothers, fathers, wives, siblings, children and friends will not forgive you! Hulusi, you will not be forgiven!
Nationalist Movement Party (MHP): We appreciate his years in the Turkish Armed Forces, fighting against terrorism.
United June Party (BHP): Hulusi Akar changed sides so many sides during that faithful night that we’re not even sure if even he is aware which faction he fights for. It is little surprise that Kenan Evren’s waterboy has become a coupist himself 36 years later.
What are the parties’ views on Prime Minister Hakan Şükür (YSH)?
Justice and Development Party (AKP): Prime Minister Hakan Şükür made us proud in the 2002 FIFA World Cups, and he is now making us proud as Prime Minister. The AKP is a party with a lot of talent, and the PM is further proof of that.
Republican People’s Party (CHP): We appreciate what Şükür did for the National Team and Galatasaray, but we condemn him for his support of the coupist pretender government, and condemn the AKP for filling parliament with such anti-democratic American-controlled politician.
Nationalist Movement Party (MHP): Member of parliament Hakan Şükür should aid in restoring parliamentary power, and re-installing President İhsanoğlu as President.
United June Party (BHP): Throughout his political career Şükür has put Gülen and money above the people, and he continues to do so.
What are the parties’ views on Chair of the National Security Council İlker Başbuğ (MGK)?
Justice and Development Party (AKP): It is little surprise to us that a man who was imprisoned for planning a coup, and only let out on a technicality, is now leading a coupist illegitimate regime.
Republican People’s Party (CHP): As someone who has faced continued Gülenist persecution, and has earned the respect of the entire military, the honorable İlker Başbuğ is a great choice as Chair of the temporary National Security Council government. We thank him for his return out of retirement in these difficult times.
Nationalist Movement Party (MHP): We appreciate his years in the Turkish Armed Forces, fighting against terrorism and attempts by American-backed non-state actors to alter the course of our nation. Nevertheless, we are concerned about his underestimation of the PKK problem.
United June Party (BHP): The BHP does not recognize the MGK government, and its officeholders, but we do appreciate Başbuğ‘s efforts to increase the rights of Kurds in the Turkish armed forces, despite his allies’ large scale opposition.
What are the parties’ views on Prime Minister Metin Feyzioğlu (MGK)?
Justice and Development Party (AKP): Feyzioğlu is merely another representative of the Ancien régime of the CHP’s one-party dictatorship. Throughout his tenure as President of the Turkish Bars Association he has overstepped his role, and disrespected the PM and President, and as Member of Parliament he has stood with the deep state over the democratic parliament.
Republican People’s Party (CHP): The honorable Feyzioğlu comes from a long and proud tradition of Kemalist politicians, and we appreciate him taking the role of PM in these difficult times, but we wished that as a member of the CHP he would respect the wishes of the party and the people by calling for democratic elections, and gaining the approval of the party before accepting the PM position.
Nationalist Movement Party (MHP): Member of parliament Metin Feyzioğlu should aid in restoring parliamentary power, and re-installing President İhsanoğlu as President.
United June Party (BHP): The actions of the likes of Feyzioğlu only further proof that the only home for democrats and leftists is the BHP. We must do away with a Turkey where a few families hold all the power, while the rest of the country is forced to fight each other.
What are the parties’ views on Minister of Justice Doğu Perinçek (MGK)?
Justice and Development Party (AKP): Perinçek is the culmination of the alliance of communists and Gladio that seeks to overthrow Islam’s role in the Turkish family, and private ownership of our middle-class. The appointment of a serial prisoner like Perinçek by the MGK is proof that they have zero respect for the laws of our country.
Republican People’s Party (CHP): We call for the immediate resignation of Perinçek due to his known ties with terrorist organizations, and lack of confidence from parliament.
Nationalist Movement Party (MHP): The honorable Perinçek is a committed nationalist and anti-imperialist.
United June Party (BHP): With one hand he hands you a rose, and with the other he fires a bullet in your chest. Perinçek’s flip-flopping knows no boundaries, and the MGK should stop listening to advice from the Russians on who to appoint to their cabinet.
What are the parties’ views on Fetullah Gülen?
Justice and Development Party (AKP): Fetullah Gülen is a Turkish citizen currently residing in the United States. He is a cleric who is committed to interfaith dialogue, and piece, and who has been the continued subject of persecution by the deep state. Ludicrous allegations that he’s a puppet master secretly controlling the YSH don’t even warrant any response.
Republican People’s Party (CHP): The late Erdoğan opened his arms and the country up for Gülen, and he responded by bombing his villa, and taking over the reins of the government. Fetullah Gülen is a fugitive that should be handed back to the Republic of Turkey by the US.
Nationalist Movement Party (MHP): The MHP is committed to democracy and the rule of law above all else.
United June Party (BHP): The true face of political Islam. Preaching piousness, while living extravagantly in the US. Preaching peace, while supporting American bombing sprees across the Middle-East. The BHP calls for all Turks and Kurds to continue to oppose Gülen’s coup.
What are the parties’ views on Abdullah Öcalan?
Justice and Development Party (AKP): Once a terrorist, always a terrorist. Öcalan seemed to have turned a leaf when he supported the solution process, but the PKK’s reign of terror in the East has proven otherwise.
Republican People’s Party (CHP): The courts of the Turkish Republic have already sentenced him, and it is up to the government to apply this sentence. We oppose calls for house arrest, though the CHP respects all laws, and is calling for the restoration of Öcalan’s rights as per the ECHR.
Nationalist Movement Party (MHP): A baby killer, and living proof for the necessity of the reintroduction of the death penalty.
United June Party (BHP): A political prisoner that has been calling for peace between Turks and Kurds for the past two decades. We call for the immediate release of the honorable Öcalan.
Dissident opinion: Öcalan’s sentence should be reduced to house arrest, with the possibility of parole.
What are the parties’ views on Selahettin Demirtaş?
Justice and Development Party (AKP): In previous years, the AKP had trusted Mr. Demirtaş’ promise that he would’ve been a representative of all Turkish people, but unfortunately he has put the PKK above the people, and is now in preventive detention for it.
Republican People’s Party (CHP): Selahettin Demirtaş is a political prisoner, and a member of parliament, who should be released immediately, and be given back his parliamentary immunity.
Nationalist Movement Party (MHP): The MHP has always warned the Turkish people to not trust one word that comes out of the mouth of Selo. He is a criminal terrorist, and a supporter of the baby killers.
United June Party (BHP): It is not surprising at all that in the midst of the coup, both sides agreed to imprison Selo. In fact, the whole coup was an attempt to stop the BHP’s rising poll numbers, and the impending certainty of Prime Minister Selahettin Demirtaş.
What are the parties’ views on the Strauss-Kahn plan?
Justice and Development Party (AKP): The Strauss-Kahn plan is merely another attempt by Christian Europe to strip the Muslim people of their sovereignty, and make it a colony of the West.
Republican People’s Party (CHP): We appreciate the attempts of President Strauss-Kahn, and our long friendship with France, but we would prefer foreign countries not to intervene in domestic affairs.
Nationalist Movement Party (MHP): France should first solve its own racism problems, and release innocent Turks, who’s only crime was loving their motherland, before daring to intervene in the affairs of the Turks.
United June Party (BHP): The Turks and Kurds will not be subjected to the plans of European big capital. Strauss-Kahn should return with a plan that includes the Turkish and Kurdish workers.
What are the parties’ views on the AKP?
Justice and Development Party (AKP): The AK Party is a conservative democratic party that believes in a social, moral and democratic Turkey. The AK Party is the true defender of Turkish democracy, and had stood in steadfast opposition to the deep state, the West, and the coupists. Under our governments, 80 million Turks have seen their standard of living improve.
Republican People’s Party (CHP): The AKP is a legitimate political party that went from a party with questionable amounts of respect for democracy and the rule of law to becoming the civilian wing of the YSH.The AKP dug its own grave in this regard.
Nationalist Movement Party (MHP): The AKP is a political party, which has become synonymous with political corruption, and has opened the government up for various foreign actors. The MHP had at times taken the responsibility by governing with the AKP, but they have only proven loyal to their Western backers.
United June Party (BHP): The AKP is the party that truly opened the country for American neoliberalism. Just like neoliberalism, their promises of democratization and freedom proved to be hollow, as millions of people were forced out of their homes, and the ‘opening’ towards the Kurds was stopped, as soon as they tried to make their voices heard.
What are the parties’ views on the CHP?
Justice and Development Party (AKP): Ever since the death of the honorable Atatürk, the CHP has put party over democracy, and supported every single coup in this nation’s long and proud history. They have oppressed millions of women by denying them the right to wear the hijab, in the hopes that it would impress their Western masters.
Republican People’s Party (CHP): As the heirs to Mustafa Kemal’s revolution, the CHP has the most important and precious role of any political parties. We will be the first to recognize that we have not always fulfilled this role as well as we should have, and we will continue to apologize to anyone that was disenfranchised as a result of the CHP, whether they be conservatives, Kurds, or Alevis, we will do our best to give you an equal role in civil- and political society. Today, a new challenge awaits our republic, as we are in the midst of a civil war between two military factions. It is now the duty of all political parties, as representatives of the Turkish people, to unite, and put democracy above anything else. As we edge closer to our great Republic’s 100th birthday, we cannot enter it as a military dictatorship, whether secularist or religious.
Nationalist Movement Party (MHP): We call on the CHP to return to its nationalist Kemalist roots, and stop its experimentations with leftism, and flirtations with divisionist Kurdish actors. We also call for the CHP to join the MHP and its allies in forming a nationalist bloc that will defend all 81 provinces of the Turkish Republic, and broker peace in the military.
United June Party (BHP): The CHP-BHP governments have proven to be some of the most consequential in the Republic’s history, and have ushered in great improvements of the rights of women, workers and ethnic and sexual minorities in this country. Nevertheless, we are worried about the CHP’s willingness to support the MGK. If the CHP is truly as committed to democracy as we believe they are, they should recognize that neither of the two factions are worth aligning with, and a new Republic must be formed to represent the peoples of Turkey.
What are the parties’ views on the MHP?
Justice and Development Party (AKP): The MHP is a fellow conservative party committed to family values, and a strong independent Turkey. We invite the MHP to join us in the YSH.
Republican People’s Party (CHP): The CHP and MHP have a long and tumultuous friendship that has as often brought as in opposition to one another, as alongside each other, but neither of us can doubt the others commitment to Atatürk and the Turkish nation. We thus call for the MHP to join us in defending democracy for all Turks, and establish a strong democratic and nationalistic bloc.
Nationalist Movement Party (MHP): The MHP is the true representative of Turkish nationalists and all Turks from Belgium to Kazakhstan. In our more than 50 year history, we have stood in opposition to Soviet agitators, and both Western and Eastern imperialism. Only through the MHP and our nationalist spirit will we be able to restore unity again in our nation, and establish the Misak-ı Mîllî.
United June Party (BHP): The MHP is a Made-in-America fascist party that is in the midst of overplaying its hand. With both the YSH and MGK promising it the world, the MHP is instead attempting to play them against one another to further their, and their criminal buddies’, goals. In this sense the MHP’s fascism is the perfect representation of capitalism, as they call for peace on one end, while selling both sides weapons, and filling their pockets, on the other side.
What are the parties’ views on the BHP?
Justice and Development Party (AKP): The BHP is the political wing of the PKK, masquerading as a political party. Only the AKP will further the rights and livelihoods of the Kurdish people. The BHP is only interested in rights for homosexuals and communists.
Republican People’s Party (CHP): The current CHP leadership has fought long and hard to come to a point where we could form a government with the BHP, and we hope they returned the favor. We are worried that since the start of the civil war the BHP is increasingly falling under the influence of the PKK. We are calling for the BHP to resist the attempts by terrorist organizations to influence it, and join us in our democratic struggle. Only through a united left can we solve our nation’s generational traumas. There is no liberation on our own. Either we all achieve freedom, or none of us will.
Nationalist Movement Party (MHP): The BHP is synonymous with the PKK, and should be treated as such. Anyone who aligns with them, shall be treated accordingly.
United June Party (BHP): Our party wasn’t found in New York City skyscrapers, nor in bourgeois parties, nor in military barracks. Our party was founded in the streets of Istanbul, Ankara, Diyarbakir, and every other city and town in this nation of ours. Our party was found through our shared struggle against imperialism and its enforcers, against prejudice and racism and its enforcers. When we dodged the rubber bullets of the police, we didn’t judge the ethnicity, sexuality, or religion of the person fighting next to us. Our party is the only representative of our peoples’, and our struggle against imperialism and capitalism.
What are the parties’ views on the events that transpired on the night of 15-16 July 2016?
Justice and Development Party (AKP): The coup of 15 July was a culmination of half a century of Gladio and attempts by the US and its European Christian allies to undermine the revival of a strong, proud, democratic Turkey. Fortunately, the Turkish people have shown their unwavering resilience against the occupiers, and soon enough the giaours will be swept into the sea again.
Republican People’s Party (CHP): Since the creation of the Republic, the CHP has steadfastly defended democracy, and thus opposes direct military rule, and calls for an immediate return to parliamentary politics. As for the 15th of July coup attempt, it is merely the expected result of Erdoğan and the AKP allowing the Gülen movement to take over strategic positions in the military and bureaucracy, under the guise of ‘combatting the deep state’. What they failed to mention is that the CHP was the first victim of the American-backed deep state, and will continue to oppose the Americans’ attempts to infringe our sovereignty, unlike the AKP, who are enthusiastic backers of the pro-American military government directly ruled from Fetullah Gülen’s mansion in Pennsylvania.
Nationalist Movement Party (MHP): While sons and brothers are killing each other on the streets, the Nazi state in Greece is preparing to invade our Western provinces. That is why we call for all patriotic Kemalist soldiers to point their arms at the coup plotter generals, whether left-wing or right-wing, and sentence them to the appropriate death penalty. After which, we the politicians will establish a national coalition of all nationalist parties and will order you to direct your weapons to the West, to thwart off any invasion by the Greeks, and liberate our lost islands.
United June Party (BHP): The 2016 coup is merely another chapter in the fascist state’s attempts to suppress the workers, farmers, women, and peoples of Turkey. We are the only party that has stood in indomitable opposition to both the Islamist and ultranationalist military regimes. We stand with the people, and the people only. The coup and the ensuing conflict should not be analyzed as a conflict between Islamists and secularists, but rather an attempt by the deep state (whatever its views on political Islam are) to deny leftists and Kurds their continued partaking in government.
What are the parties’ views on the Peace at Home government (YSH government)?
Justice and Development Party (AKP): The YSH government is the only legitimate government. The AKP salutes our brave generals that stood in opposition to the 15th of July coup. Any notions that the YSH is controlled by the Americans is simply outrageous. If anything, the US State Department’s recognition of the YSH is further proof that it is the true democratic government of Turkey, as even they can’t deny that the Turkish people support President Akar and PM Şükür’s goal to expel the invaders from our lands, after which we will hold democratic elections again.
Republican People’s Party (CHP): Over the past two decades, the CHP has continuously warned other political actors of working together with the Gülen movement. Today we can proudly say that the CHP is the only party that has continuously opposed the anti-Turkish cleric’s movement, and we believe that our effort was vital in denying them total control over our land. Nobody should draw the wrong conclusions, it was the Gülen movement that orchestrated the 15th of July coup. The tapes are clear as day, PM Erdoğan and Fetullah Gülen had a falling out in 2014, and since then the latter has been planning a coup.
Nationalist Movement Party (MHP): The MHP invites the YSH to partake in MHP brokered peace talks.
United June Party (BHP): Discussions about which factions fired the first bullet only distract us from the fact that hundreds of Turks and Kurds are killed every single day by the illegitimate military governments. The YSH may claim to be the legitimate democratic government of the people, but they are directly backed by the anti-democratic Americans. The same Americans who invaded Iraq, Iran, Syria, Libya, Afghanistan, etc., and have consistently denied the Kurds of Rojava recognition, despite their fight against authoritarianism across the Levant. To all our conservative citizens, whether Turkish or Kurdish, we call for you to oppose these charlatans, who are merely American dogs.
What are the parties’ views on the National Security Council government (MGK government)?
Justice and Development Party (AKP): The MGK are the same evil western-backed groups that opposed the AKP’s efforts towards democratization throughout the last two decades. They are the same mindset that committed the 28th of February coup of 1997, and the same mindset that killed the democratically elected Prime Minister of Turkey. The AKP shall never forget Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s efforts for democracy and religious freedoms, and his slaying by those who opposed freedom for the Turkish people. If there is any confusion about who is the American backed faction, just remember that tens of millions of Americans voted for two men for the Presidency and Vice Presidency who called for military backing of the MGK because of their business interests and furthering of the Great Middle-East Project respectively.
Republican People’s Party (CHP): The CHP is open in its recognition that the MGK is the lesser of two evils. It may be misguided in its rigorousness, but at least it defends the values of the founder of this great Republic of ours, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. That’s why we call for all political parties in Turkey to join us in the MGK’s democratic framework, so we can return legitimacy back to the people’s parliament.
Nationalist Movement Party (MHP): The MHP invites the MGK to partake in MHP brokered peace talks.
United June Party (BHP): Some Turkish citizens may think that because of their secularism and supposed opposition to American imperialism, the MGK are the faction that deserves the support of the BHP. However, the MGK has continuously proven that they are no friend of the BHP. Instead of restoring democracy, they were more interested in clamping down on hard fought Kurdish language rights. Instead of persecuting Gülenists in the government, they were more interested in mowing down striking factory workers. The BHP stands in opposition towards the YSH’s attempts to usher us back into the Middle-Ages, and the MGK’s attempts to bring us back to the dark days of the 1980’s and 90’s.
What are the parties’ views on the Kurdish Workers’ Party (PKK)?
Justice and Development Party (AKP): The PKK is the biggest terrorist organization in Turkey after the MGK. It is thus no surprise to us that these two groups have been in close cooperation to this day. We call on all our Kurdish fellow believers to rebel against the PKK held territories in our Eastern provinces, and restore our shared values, in defiance of the American imperialists.
Republican People’s Party (CHP): The CHP opposes political violence and terrorism, no matter who commits it. We recognize that the Turkish state has wronged the Kurdish people, and we apologize for this, but we must realize that Turks and Kurds are brothers through fate. A division would be the end of us. Turks and Kurds must once again unite, in equal terms, under the umbrella or the Turkish state.
Nationalist Movement Party (MHP): The PKK has been the biggest scourge of these lands. Their radical communist, divisionist, and terroristic actions must be stopped immediately. The danger of a Kurdistan, established in our Eastern provinces, is just as big as the danger of a Greater Greece established in our Western provinces.
United June Party (BHP): The PKK has been acting in selfdefense in its struggle against fascist groups backed by the Turkish state. It were the actions of Turkey that made the rebellion of the PKK necessary, and the current presence of PKK-affiliated individuals in the Eastern provinces of Turkey and Kurdistan is similarly necessary for selfdefense against the YSH and MGK.
Dissident opinion: We recognize that the greatest force of terror in the East was the Turkish state, but we mustn’t forget that dozens of teachers and activists were murdered by the PKK. We are closely monitoring reports of ballot stuffing by the PKK in the Hakkari Council, and call for the return of sovereignty over our streets and villages back to the Turkish and Kurdish people.
What are the parties’ views on the Grey Wolves?
Justice and Development Party (AKP): We realize that in such trying times the prospect of vigilantism may seem appealing, but we call for all men interested in joining the Grey Wolves to join the Armed Forces instead. We are also worried about reports from Iğdır of violence committed by Grey Wolves against Imams.
Republican People’s Party (CHP): We decry terrorism, no matter what it’s color or ideology is. For too long, the deep state has allowed the Grey Wolves to commit terroristic acts against Turkish citizens because of their left-wing believes or ethnic backgrounds. We have filed a motion to stop cooperation by the MGK with the Grey Wolfes, and call for all our citizens to sign in on our website.
Nationalist Movement Party (MHP): There is no such thing as a ‘Grey Wolves organization’. The grey wolf is a symbol that unites all Turks in the world, and groups that are acting with those believes to stop leftist or Kurdish separatism have our unwavering support.
United June Party (BHP): We will never forget the victims of the Grey Wolves, and just like the Red Army 70 years ago, we will make sure that every fascist in this land will soon enough breath their last breath.
What are the parties’ views on the Kurdish Hezbollah?
Justice and Development Party (AKP): The Kurdish Hezbollah officially disbanded in the late 90s, and opted to partake in civil politics instead under the umbrella of the Free Cause Party. Reports about Kurdish Hezbollah members killing innocent Kurds in the East are simply PKK-fabricated lies. The Free Cause Party have been enthusiastic allies of the YSH and democracy for all our citizens, no matter their ethnicity.
Republican People’s Party (CHP): The Kurdish Hezbollah is one of the most evil group roaming our country today. Not only do they support dividing our country, but they also kill our soldiers. They have also murdered numerous women, simply for existing. We call for irregular paramilitary groups to allow our military forces to enter the Eastern provinces, so we can stop this scourge.
Nationalist Movement Party (MHP): We condemn all groups that fight against the Turkish state, and find the accusations that the Turkish state, the MHP or even Turkish nationalists ever supported such a group to be ludicrous.
United June Party (BHP): The Hezbollah do not deserve to put “Kurdish” in their names, as they do in no way support or represent them. For two decades the Hezbollah has, with the backing of the Turkish government, spread terror throughout our lands. Our brave women will make sure that the Hezbollah and its allies will be driven away.
What are the parties’ views on the Islamic State in Turkey (ISIT)?
Justice and Development Party (AKP): False accusations have been spreading across the interent that the YSH is supporting ISIT. These claims are not only incredibly false, but also dangerous, and anyone who spreads them must be prosecuted. We also oppose the continued fixation of Kemalists on ISIT, while they ignore the PKK or its left-wing guerrilla allies. Compared to those nonbelievers, ISIT are merely a bunch of naughty boys.
Republican People’s Party (CHP): The emergence of ISIT shows the desperation of the YSH, as they rely on radical Islamists to do their fighting. We must also reiterate our condemnation of the Erdoğan family for housing injured ISIT terrorists.
Nationalist Movement Party (MHP): We don’t need the Arabs to tell us how to be good Muslims. All their countries are a mess, and since then they have been fleeing to our country. We have been the only party opposed to mass migration of Arabs from the Middle-East, and have warned that pretty soon they would try to establish their own country. However, they mustn’t forget that the only Masters in Turkey are the Turks.
United June Party (BHP): Just like our allies in Rojava and Iraq have shown us, we shall make sure that our country will be save again for our women and sexual and religious minorities.
What are the parties’ views on the People’s Youth Guerrilla (HGG)?
Justice and Development Party (AKP): The so-called HGG is merely just an extension of the PKK in the West. They kill any imam or woman wearing a headscarf on sight, and must be dealt with swiftly.
Republican People’s Party (CHP): The CHP extends critical support to the HGG, though must advise these brave kids to engage in non-violent action whenever possible.
Dissident Opinion: The HGG is a terrorist organization, and must be condemned.
Nationalist Movement Party (MHP): We call for all Turkish nationalist and Kemalists to shoot on sight when they see an HGG terrorist.
United June Party (BHP): We are proud to call the HGG our allies, and see them as the future of our nations.
What are the parties’ views on the Golden Dawn government in Greece?
Justice and Development Party (AKP): Greece is merely showing the true face of the West and Christian Europe. We warn PM Lagos that if he ever chooses to intervene in Turkey’s internal affairs, the believers shall react accordingly. The mosques are our barracks, the domes our helmets, the minarets our bayonets, and the believers our soldiers.
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Republican People’s Party (CHP): Just like Mustafa Kemal Atatürk did 97 years ago, we are ready against any infringements of our lands. Turkey’s lands are definite, and we will not let fascism or imperialism to change that. The Turkish- and Greek people are allies, and we wish to return to such days.
Nationalist Movement Party (MHP): We call for all factions to stop pointing their weapons against fellow Turks, and point them West towards the Greek Nazi state instead. Ioannis Lagos, Eleni Zaroulia, Ilias Kasidiaris, Eleftherios Synadinos, Georgios Epitidios, and Konstantinos Barbarousis; all of you will not stop the Turkish people!
United June Party (BHP): The events transpiring in Turkey are a cautious tail for Turkey, and the importance of standing in opposition to fascism. We give our full support to the ANTARSYA’s rebellion against the fascist Greek state.
What are the parties’ views on the United States and the Obama administration?
Justice and Development Party (AKP): We recognize Barack Obama as the President of the United States of America, and congratulate him on his re-election.
Republican People’s Party (CHP): Obama’s election in 2012 was received with great enthusiasm across the globe, hoping that it would usher in the end of American imperialistic wars and unabashed capitalism. Instead, President Obama has proven himself unwilling to cease from intervening in the Middle-East, by supporting the YSH, while simultaneously ignoring the Greek governments’ treatment of Muslim refugees from the same countries that the United States invaded under previous administration.
Nationalist Movement Party (MHP): We call for the removal of all American troops from the land of the Turks, and the United States to allow in 5.000.000 refugees from all the Muslim countries it ravaged.
United June Party (BHP): If Obama is truly committed to freedom and democracy, he should pull back all American troops from the Middle-East, if Obama is truly committed to freedom and democracy, he should recognize Rojava and Kurdistan as sovereign states. If Obama is truly committed to freedom and democracy, he should hand over the administration of the United States to the American workers, rather than the fat cats of Wall Street.
What are the parties’ views on the Middle-Eastern refugee crisis?
Justice and Development Party (AKP): The Americans and Brits came in, killed millions of Muslims, and left us to take care of millions of refugees. However, no matter what anyone says it is the duty of every Muslim to take care of a fellow Muslim in need. Now more than ever, as millions of our own have fled to Germany, the Netherlands, Bulgaria, and various other countries, we must remember the importance of looking out for one another.
Republican People’s Party (CHP): Now that the worst of the wars in the Middle-East are over, and our own country is in the middle of an even bigger one. We require all refugees to leave our country for their own homes, where they will be saver. When our country reaches peace again, we will do our best to voluntarily remove all refugees. We must also strongly condemn the AKP government for its irresponsible refugee policy, which has now led to thousands of young foreign men to take arms against Turkish soldiers, whether for the YSH or ISIT.
Nationalist Movement Party (MHP): The MHP is the only party that has consistently opposed the mass arrival of Arab refugees. Now we are left in a situation where they are killing brave Turkish soldiers. The MHP promises that it will remove every single Arab and Iranian refugee from Turkey, as soon as possible, voluntarily or not.
United June Party (BHP): Damn those who attempt to do politics over innocent people. No person should be a refugee, and no person should be a foreigner. We must create a Turkey where Turkish and Kurdish refugees can return to, and a Turkey where refugees from the Middle-East can live safely.
What are the parties’ views on Recep Tayyip Erdoğan?
Justice and Development Party (AKP): The honorable Erdoğan is undoubtedly the greatest Prime Minister in our country’s history, and a martyr for democracy and Islam. We shall make sure that his name will never be forgotten, and every city will have an avenue named after him. They hanged Menderes, they poisoned Özal, they shot Erdoğan, but they will never stop our cause.
Republican People’s Party (CHP): We condemn the assassination of the democratically elected head of government by a military coup.
Dissident opinion: Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was the architect of his own death. His politics of division, hate, and anti-democracy paved the way for the Gülenist to attempt their coup, and bomb his villa in Marmaris.
Nationalist Movement Party (MHP): Despite our differing opinions with him, we salute him as someone who always did what he believed was right for the Turkish people.
United June Party (BHP): Ding-Dong the Djinn is dead!
What are the parties’ views on President Hulusi Akar (YSH)?
Justice and Development Party (AKP): On the 16th of July, the honorable Hulusi Akar was the only thing standing between democracy and dictatorship, and he chose for the Turkish people. We thank him for his servitude to the Turkish people, and hope he will continue to be our president when we return to a civilian government.
Republican People’s Party (CHP): Hulusi, when you die and go to hell, and our martyrs watch you from the heavens, they’ll watch your burning with great enthusiasm. The people of this country, the soldiers, and their mothers, fathers, wives, siblings, children and friends will not forgive you! Hulusi, you will not be forgiven!
Nationalist Movement Party (MHP): We appreciate his years in the Turkish Armed Forces, fighting against terrorism.
United June Party (BHP): Hulusi Akar changed sides so many sides during that faithful night that we’re not even sure if even he is aware which faction he fights for. It is little surprise that Kenan Evren’s waterboy has become a coupist himself 36 years later.
What are the parties’ views on Prime Minister Hakan Şükür (YSH)?
Justice and Development Party (AKP): Prime Minister Hakan Şükür made us proud in the 2002 FIFA World Cups, and he is now making us proud as Prime Minister. The AKP is a party with a lot of talent, and the PM is further proof of that.
Republican People’s Party (CHP): We appreciate what Şükür did for the National Team and Galatasaray, but we condemn him for his support of the coupist pretender government, and condemn the AKP for filling parliament with such anti-democratic American-controlled politician.
Nationalist Movement Party (MHP): Member of parliament Hakan Şükür should aid in restoring parliamentary power, and re-installing President İhsanoğlu as President.
United June Party (BHP): Throughout his political career Şükür has put Gülen and money above the people, and he continues to do so.
What are the parties’ views on Chair of the National Security Council İlker Başbuğ (MGK)?
Justice and Development Party (AKP): It is little surprise to us that a man who was imprisoned for planning a coup, and only let out on a technicality, is now leading a coupist illegitimate regime.
Republican People’s Party (CHP): As someone who has faced continued Gülenist persecution, and has earned the respect of the entire military, the honorable İlker Başbuğ is a great choice as Chair of the temporary National Security Council government. We thank him for his return out of retirement in these difficult times.
Nationalist Movement Party (MHP): We appreciate his years in the Turkish Armed Forces, fighting against terrorism and attempts by American-backed non-state actors to alter the course of our nation. Nevertheless, we are concerned about his underestimation of the PKK problem.
United June Party (BHP): The BHP does not recognize the MGK government, and its officeholders, but we do appreciate Başbuğ‘s efforts to increase the rights of Kurds in the Turkish armed forces, despite his allies’ large scale opposition.
What are the parties’ views on Prime Minister Metin Feyzioğlu (MGK)?
Justice and Development Party (AKP): Feyzioğlu is merely another representative of the Ancien régime of the CHP’s one-party dictatorship. Throughout his tenure as President of the Turkish Bars Association he has overstepped his role, and disrespected the PM and President, and as Member of Parliament he has stood with the deep state over the democratic parliament.
Republican People’s Party (CHP): The honorable Feyzioğlu comes from a long and proud tradition of Kemalist politicians, and we appreciate him taking the role of PM in these difficult times, but we wished that as a member of the CHP he would respect the wishes of the party and the people by calling for democratic elections, and gaining the approval of the party before accepting the PM position.
Nationalist Movement Party (MHP): Member of parliament Metin Feyzioğlu should aid in restoring parliamentary power, and re-installing President İhsanoğlu as President.
United June Party (BHP): The actions of the likes of Feyzioğlu only further proof that the only home for democrats and leftists is the BHP. We must do away with a Turkey where a few families hold all the power, while the rest of the country is forced to fight each other.
What are the parties’ views on Minister of Justice Doğu Perinçek (MGK)?
Justice and Development Party (AKP): Perinçek is the culmination of the alliance of communists and Gladio that seeks to overthrow Islam’s role in the Turkish family, and private ownership of our middle-class. The appointment of a serial prisoner like Perinçek by the MGK is proof that they have zero respect for the laws of our country.
Republican People’s Party (CHP): We call for the immediate resignation of Perinçek due to his known ties with terrorist organizations, and lack of confidence from parliament.
Nationalist Movement Party (MHP): The honorable Perinçek is a committed nationalist and anti-imperialist.
United June Party (BHP): With one hand he hands you a rose, and with the other he fires a bullet in your chest. Perinçek’s flip-flopping knows no boundaries, and the MGK should stop listening to advice from the Russians on who to appoint to their cabinet.
What are the parties’ views on Fetullah Gülen?
Justice and Development Party (AKP): Fetullah Gülen is a Turkish citizen currently residing in the United States. He is a cleric who is committed to interfaith dialogue, and piece, and who has been the continued subject of persecution by the deep state. Ludicrous allegations that he’s a puppet master secretly controlling the YSH don’t even warrant any response.
Republican People’s Party (CHP): The late Erdoğan opened his arms and the country up for Gülen, and he responded by bombing his villa, and taking over the reins of the government. Fetullah Gülen is a fugitive that should be handed back to the Republic of Turkey by the US.
Nationalist Movement Party (MHP): The MHP is committed to democracy and the rule of law above all else.
United June Party (BHP): The true face of political Islam. Preaching piousness, while living extravagantly in the US. Preaching peace, while supporting American bombing sprees across the Middle-East. The BHP calls for all Turks and Kurds to continue to oppose Gülen’s coup.
What are the parties’ views on Abdullah Öcalan?
Justice and Development Party (AKP): Once a terrorist, always a terrorist. Öcalan seemed to have turned a leaf when he supported the solution process, but the PKK’s reign of terror in the East has proven otherwise.
Republican People’s Party (CHP): The courts of the Turkish Republic have already sentenced him, and it is up to the government to apply this sentence. We oppose calls for house arrest, though the CHP respects all laws, and is calling for the restoration of Öcalan’s rights as per the ECHR.
Nationalist Movement Party (MHP): A baby killer, and living proof for the necessity of the reintroduction of the death penalty.
United June Party (BHP): A political prisoner that has been calling for peace between Turks and Kurds for the past two decades. We call for the immediate release of the honorable Öcalan.
Dissident opinion: Öcalan’s sentence should be reduced to house arrest, with the possibility of parole.
What are the parties’ views on Selahettin Demirtaş?
Justice and Development Party (AKP): In previous years, the AKP had trusted Mr. Demirtaş’ promise that he would’ve been a representative of all Turkish people, but unfortunately he has put the PKK above the people, and is now in preventive detention for it.
Republican People’s Party (CHP): Selahettin Demirtaş is a political prisoner, and a member of parliament, who should be released immediately, and be given back his parliamentary immunity.
Nationalist Movement Party (MHP): The MHP has always warned the Turkish people to not trust one word that comes out of the mouth of Selo. He is a criminal terrorist, and a supporter of the baby killers.
United June Party (BHP): It is not surprising at all that in the midst of the coup, both sides agreed to imprison Selo. In fact, the whole coup was an attempt to stop the BHP’s rising poll numbers, and the impending certainty of Prime Minister Selahettin Demirtaş.
What are the parties’ views on the Strauss-Kahn plan?
Justice and Development Party (AKP): The Strauss-Kahn plan is merely another attempt by Christian Europe to strip the Muslim people of their sovereignty, and make it a colony of the West.
Republican People’s Party (CHP): We appreciate the attempts of President Strauss-Kahn, and our long friendship with France, but we would prefer foreign countries not to intervene in domestic affairs.
Nationalist Movement Party (MHP): France should first solve its own racism problems, and release innocent Turks, who’s only crime was loving their motherland, before daring to intervene in the affairs of the Turks.
United June Party (BHP): The Turks and Kurds will not be subjected to the plans of European big capital. Strauss-Kahn should return with a plan that includes the Turkish and Kurdish workers.
What are the parties’ views on the AKP?
Justice and Development Party (AKP): The AK Party is a conservative democratic party that believes in a social, moral and democratic Turkey. The AK Party is the true defender of Turkish democracy, and had stood in steadfast opposition to the deep state, the West, and the coupists. Under our governments, 80 million Turks have seen their standard of living improve.
Republican People’s Party (CHP): The AKP is a legitimate political party that went from a party with questionable amounts of respect for democracy and the rule of law to becoming the civilian wing of the YSH.
Nationalist Movement Party (MHP): The AKP is a political party, which has become synonymous with political corruption, and has opened the government up for various foreign actors. The MHP had at times taken the responsibility by governing with the AKP, but they have only proven loyal to their Western backers.
United June Party (BHP): The AKP is the party that truly opened the country for American neoliberalism. Just like neoliberalism, their promises of democratization and freedom proved to be hollow, as millions of people were forced out of their homes, and the ‘opening’ towards the Kurds was stopped, as soon as they tried to make their voices heard.
What are the parties’ views on the CHP?
Justice and Development Party (AKP): Ever since the death of the honorable Atatürk, the CHP has put party over democracy, and supported every single coup in this nation’s long and proud history. They have oppressed millions of women by denying them the right to wear the hijab, in the hopes that it would impress their Western masters.
Republican People’s Party (CHP): As the heirs to Mustafa Kemal’s revolution, the CHP has the most important and precious role of any political parties. We will be the first to recognize that we have not always fulfilled this role as well as we should have, and we will continue to apologize to anyone that was disenfranchised as a result of the CHP, whether they be conservatives, Kurds, or Alevis, we will do our best to give you an equal role in civil- and political society. Today, a new challenge awaits our republic, as we are in the midst of a civil war between two military factions. It is now the duty of all political parties, as representatives of the Turkish people, to unite, and put democracy above anything else. As we edge closer to our great Republic’s 100th birthday, we cannot enter it as a military dictatorship, whether secularist or religious.
Nationalist Movement Party (MHP): We call on the CHP to return to its nationalist Kemalist roots, and stop its experimentations with leftism, and flirtations with divisionist Kurdish actors. We also call for the CHP to join the MHP and its allies in forming a nationalist bloc that will defend all 81 provinces of the Turkish Republic, and broker peace in the military.
United June Party (BHP): The CHP-BHP governments have proven to be some of the most consequential in the Republic’s history, and have ushered in great improvements of the rights of women, workers and ethnic and sexual minorities in this country. Nevertheless, we are worried about the CHP’s willingness to support the MGK. If the CHP is truly as committed to democracy as we believe they are, they should recognize that neither of the two factions are worth aligning with, and a new Republic must be formed to represent the peoples of Turkey.
What are the parties’ views on the MHP?
Justice and Development Party (AKP): The MHP is a fellow conservative party committed to family values, and a strong independent Turkey. We invite the MHP to join us in the YSH.
Republican People’s Party (CHP): The CHP and MHP have a long and tumultuous friendship that has as often brought as in opposition to one another, as alongside each other, but neither of us can doubt the others commitment to Atatürk and the Turkish nation. We thus call for the MHP to join us in defending democracy for all Turks, and establish a strong democratic and nationalistic bloc.
Nationalist Movement Party (MHP): The MHP is the true representative of Turkish nationalists and all Turks from Belgium to Kazakhstan. In our more than 50 year history, we have stood in opposition to Soviet agitators, and both Western and Eastern imperialism. Only through the MHP and our nationalist spirit will we be able to restore unity again in our nation, and establish the Misak-ı Mîllî.
United June Party (BHP): The MHP is a Made-in-America fascist party that is in the midst of overplaying its hand. With both the YSH and MGK promising it the world, the MHP is instead attempting to play them against one another to further their, and their criminal buddies’, goals. In this sense the MHP’s fascism is the perfect representation of capitalism, as they call for peace on one end, while selling both sides weapons, and filling their pockets, on the other side.
What are the parties’ views on the BHP?
Justice and Development Party (AKP): The BHP is the political wing of the PKK, masquerading as a political party. Only the AKP will further the rights and livelihoods of the Kurdish people. The BHP is only interested in rights for homosexuals and communists.
Republican People’s Party (CHP): The current CHP leadership has fought long and hard to come to a point where we could form a government with the BHP, and we hope they returned the favor. We are worried that since the start of the civil war the BHP is increasingly falling under the influence of the PKK. We are calling for the BHP to resist the attempts by terrorist organizations to influence it, and join us in our democratic struggle. Only through a united left can we solve our nation’s generational traumas. There is no liberation on our own. Either we all achieve freedom, or none of us will.
Nationalist Movement Party (MHP): The BHP is synonymous with the PKK, and should be treated as such. Anyone who aligns with them, shall be treated accordingly.
United June Party (BHP): Our party wasn’t found in New York City skyscrapers, nor in bourgeois parties, nor in military barracks. Our party was founded in the streets of Istanbul, Ankara, Diyarbakir, and every other city and town in this nation of ours. Our party was found through our shared struggle against imperialism and its enforcers, against prejudice and racism and its enforcers. When we dodged the rubber bullets of the police, we didn’t judge the ethnicity, sexuality, or religion of the person fighting next to us. Our party is the only representative of our peoples’, and our struggle against imperialism and capitalism.
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It was in the Year of Maximum Danger
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Always nice to see more Obamaverse--this is a fun format in the ways it gives us different views of the same situation.
Truely impressive levels of weasel-wording here. The whole theme of both major sides claiming the other is an American puppet was great, but this is its highpoint.
Truely impressive levels of weasel-wording here. The whole theme of both major sides claiming the other is an American puppet was great, but this is its highpoint.
Thank you! I actually need to finish that TL before releasing more content on it, but I wanted to do this for a while.
In this format everyone is also at least somewhat biased, so it’s up to the reader to interpret what’s the truth, and who to (partially) trust on their word.
Basically Turkish politics in a nutshell, and the worst part is that they’re all right and wrong, as the US is a huge country with often conflicting interests.
If it wasn’t clear to anyone. The AKP is talking about an independent Trump/Flynn ticket here.