All right, Alexander, let's talk about what is going on in Turkey.

Erdogan has arrested the mayor of Istanbul, Imam Moglu, and he was going to be running for president in 2008.

Many people believe that he would have won the elections, though we are talking about three years off, but still he's very popular.

He is the rising politician, Erdogan.

He's been around for a long time.

And I do have to say Erdogan, with each passing year, does look more frail in his appearance.

So you have that factor there as well.

But it looks like Erdogan has decided, you know, it's three years off.

I'm secure in my position, or at least I feel like I'm secure in my position right now. I've just completed a coup in

Syria, and so I might as well pull the trigger and arrest Imamoglu, the main rival for his

AKP party. This is triggered protests in Istanbul, in Ankara, in many cities across Turkey, but Erdogan is not backing down.

He remains firm in his decision to remove Imauulu.

And there is a type of question-marker scandal that Erdogan is pushing out there or did push out there about Imamoglu before he arrested him, which was that even if he wanted to run for presidency, his candidacy would be rejected because he did not obtain a diploma in the right way.

And there is that kind of question mark.

I don't think we need to get into that in this video.

But that's how all of this initially started.

He didn't qualify for the candidacy because of his diploma, question mark.

But now it's snowballed into an outright arrest.

Anyway, your thoughts on what is happening in Turkey.

You described the situation very well.

Now, I mean, with Erdogan, I mean, the fundamental truth about Erdogan is he doesn't accept

rivals.

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