# Pitting AK84

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-ak84/972007
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [September 21, 2022, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-ak84/972007 "2022-09-21T22:47:34Z")
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### Author: ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2022, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-ak84/972007/19 "2022-09-24T13:48:43Z")

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> [@Russia invades Ukraine {2022-02-24} (Part 1)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russia-invades-ukraine-2022-02-24-part-1/960037/8476):
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> > [@Kedikat](#):
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> > Erdogan seems to be able to take every opportunity of world events to play all sides off each other for his own benefit.
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> And that differentiates him from pre–Ataturk Turkish leaders…how?

The Ottoman Islamic Sultanate was known for being fiendish (I assume that is the implication) so it is just fine for Erdogan to throw away a century of secular rule and be a scheming theocratic fiend again.

Tradition!

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