I wouldn't put it past him. He has the ideal scapegoat.

Erdogan has talked about how he wanted more power for his position for a while now.

And considering how Erdogan isn't that far from being Hitler.....

Hahaha you saw nothing.

It's scary to think that the Turkish armed forces makes up the most of NATO's military strength..

There's an inexplicable desire to put populists into lofty positions of power these days, like the Philipines electing a psychopath as President. The world could use more good men like Stoltenberg right now.

I wouldn't say he's a psychopath, he's brutal as fuck against drug lords, dealers, suppliers, etc. Might be what the Philippines need, he might be another psuedo-dictator. He's cleaning up the streets methods be damned it's a result, that's cleaning up the streets. Which is more than any other world leader is doing at the moment.

I could go on but my expertise with the Philippines is limited, from what I know from someone who's family is from the Philippines drugs are rampant as fuck. Sadly when something becomes that widespread you can't deal with it normally, it's impossible. Duterte may be what the Philippines needs.    

In Aus we can't do jack shit with the drug trade at times, mainly because if they're protected by the biker gangs they'll threaten the families of the police officers and you'd be pretty stupid if you don't think they'll follow through.

In Australia?

You'd think either Labor or Liberals would do that!? You'd need a spine to do that, both parties are lacking.

I really wish major media channels would float conspiracy-theories more often about events that happen in the US. They can't, I get it, but still...

9/11 theories look truer by the day.

He's bat-shit crazy to say the least, the kind of "populists" character whom voters find inexplicably interesting to vote into a position of power because he says "what he thinks" even if those things are cartoonishly whacky. He executes those he deems guilty and vice versa, who is he to that make that kind of judgement? He's also led alleged crime lords off the hook too based on his own thin veiled intuition and threatened to kill his own children if they even dabble in narcotics. No man should have that kind power(especially the kind of man who think himself incorruptible and thus thinks he alone perceives the necessary omnipotent insight to deem judgement on those he pleases), violence begets more violence. Perhaps his brutality might make a hoodlum think twice before distributing cocain, but at what cost? How long before he beheads reporters for criticizing him, or someone walking across the street when it's a red light like any other dictator. I know that there is a wide gap that separates the Philippines from the West, and I also know people who have family there. Dictators prosper regardless of any human rights they might stomp on as long as he throws people a bone every now and then in form of creating jobs or build highways (like Hitler did) and cracking down hard on those who oppose him. His methods will be lost on a western cultural mind but it doesn't make it any less immoral. If this is his long-term plan for the Philippines then I feel bad for them.

I wouldn't say he's crazy just yet, he may actually be smart which is just as dangerous.

Without knowing who he is personally it's pretty hard to tell, maybe he has a personal vendetta against drug dealers; it might end there with just the narcotics. But if history has shown us anything it rarely stops there, though he may prove the exception rather than the rule; lets hope it does.

As for his long-term plan the only thing we can do is wait and see.

No one's going to legalise hardcore drugs, which is what he's mainly cracking down on.