> >So what's up? Well, just as the AKP's
> >predecessor Refah split down the middle between supporters of the
> >Saudi-aligned fundie patriarch Necmeddin Erbakan and moderates who backed
> >his /dauphin/ Tayyip Erdogan, the AKP, barely 6 months in government, has
> >just split between supporters of the Imam's son and Islamic seminary
> >graduate Erdogan and those of the urbane, English speaking, moderate
> >Abdullah Gul. Army pressure had split Refah and US pressure has split the
> >AKP. The defectors are Gul supporters.
> >
> >So with the opposition, the army, the president, and now the moderate
wing
> >of the AKP washing its hands of the deal made with the Dubya junta,
Erdogan
> >and the fundie wing of the AKP are left holding the baby. And the govt
has
> >just said it doesn't envisage a revote anytime soon.
Wait. So, the army supported the "no" vote on US troops? I thought the army was the pro-American "deep state" that was pressuring Parliament to vote "yes. Not true?
Seth