Turkey



Republic of Turkey is is a parliamentary republic in Eurasia, mainly on the Anatolian peninsula in Western Asia, with a smaller portion on the Balkan peninsula in Southeast Europe, bordered by Syria. The current nation of Turkey came into existence as a secular constitutional republic in 1923 under the leadership of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. Since the early days of the Cold War, Turkey's internal politics have been characterized by an ongoing conflict between the military, that considers itself the protector of secular state formed by Atatürk and the Turkish Government, which has often been characterized by Islamic ideals and non-secularism. Since 1960 the country has undergone six coups d'état attempts, one of which became a hot button issue during True Capitalist Radio broadcast.

Turkey became a hotly talked issue in the show during Episode 312 when the country underwent an unsuccessful coup. Ghost was hoping that the secular military would succeed in the coup and called for execution of president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan whom Ghost viewed as a totalitarian Radical Islamist. Ghost rage quit the show after learning that Radical Islamists were winning. Ghost was afraid afterwards that Turkey's situation might spawn World War III and began to suspect that the coup attempt was a false flag attack orchestrated by Erdoğan administration with the assistance of Vladimir Putin. Since then, Ghost has criticized Erdoğan's policies that aim to reduce political freedoms and attempt to bring an end to Turkey's secularism.