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Turkey adopts Baghdadi as poster child for naysayers

Supporters of proposed amendments to Turkey's constitution are using some vivid imagery in their campaign.
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan continues to rev the engine of his campaign supporting constitutional amendments. However, what the effort really needs is a solid steering alignment. It's all over the road.

The world according to Erdogan is full of villains conspiring against him, some perhaps real, some maybe imagined: Gulenists, Kurds, the Islamic State (IS), the media, the United Nations, Europe and even the pope.

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