A few days ago, Turkey hosted something called the World Humanitarian Summit, shortly after its parliament passed a bill that would allow its government to  lift parliamentary immunity and throw in jail members of parliament whose opinions do not agree with those of its increasingly dictatorial Islamist president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.  This puts paid to any remaining pretensions Turkey had of being a democracy and guarantees that this NATO member is headed for disaster.  To understand why this is now inevitable, a closer look at this pernicious bill and the background to it are needed. After coming to power with a huge majority in 2003, Erdoğan, who never hid his ultimate intentions to pursue the radical Islamization of Turkey, introduced a number of policies that were well received.  One of them was to enter into reconciliation talks with the large Kurdish minority and the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK)  representing it, which had been the key factor...(Read Full Article)