NATO Member Turkey Descends into Autocracy as Kurdish Lawmakers Arrested, Internet Apps Blocked, by Patrick Poole.

Turkish President Recep Erdogan, once identified by President Obama as one of his top five closest international leader friends, once famously said: “Democracy is a like a train: you get off once you’ve reached your destination.”

Grave reports are emerging from NATO member Turkey tonight that Erdogan is getting Turkey off the democracy train as Kurdish lawmakers [i.e. all of the the third largest party in parliament] have been arrested and Internet social media applications are being blocked by the Turkish government, in an escalating crackdown that Erdogan has waged since a botched coup attempt this past July. …

Arrests have been widespread since the July attempted coup, with the Erdogan regime imprisoning opponents, banning rallies, taking over media outlets and sacking non-Islamist government employees by the thousands. …

[T]he U.S. has 60-70 nuclear weapons stationed at the NATO Incirlik air force base in southern Turkey.

Slow rolling Islamic coup. Of a NATO country, by one of Obama’s mates.