Air strikes against ISIS in Kobani are just a PR exercise, Turkey says

[The Magistrate]

7. Even If They Did Receive Such Assurances, Sir, They Ought To Have Known Better Than To Believe Them

I think they put too much faith in U.S. designation of the P.K.K. as a 'terrorist organization', which was really just a sort of last reflexive twitch in the corpse of the Cold War rather than a heart-felt judgement.

Erdogan I have never liked, and view his progressive deterioration as simply the normal course of 'political Islam' once in control of government, complicated by corruption in the upper ranks ( something I think endemic to people in power ). Regardless of how its promoters might speak, 'political Islam' is necessarily anti-democratic --- popular feeling might condition how rapidly the will of the deity might be put into full force in a polity, but popular feeling cannot alter that will, nor be allowed to brook it decisively should it come to cases. Being possessors of revealed truth, they can only enter politics in the character of a 'vanguard party', speaking for the true desires of the people and leading them to their realization, whatever people might actually think or desire. The similarity of mental structure and political practice to Communist parties is obvious, however dissimilar the ideological content may be.