For years, Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been running around like a headless chicken clucking about the glories of Ottoman Empire and the benefits, to Islam, of its revival. While he doesn’t say who would become the first Sultan 2.0, it’s obvious the former Istanbul football player believes he would make a perfect sultan. But before […]
Blunders of an Intelligent Man
The Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) is the Harvard of Russia. It’s the alma mater of the largest number of Russian Forbes magazine list members and representatives of the Russian political elite. Sergei Lavrov, Russia’s foreign minister; Irina Bekova, ex-director-general of UNESCO; and historian Sergo Mikoyan are graduates of MGIMO. So is President […]
Turkey takes charge of NATO’s Very High Readiness Joint Task Force as it confirms Russian arms deal
Rather than Islamic supremacist Turkey getting booted out of NATO, it is taking over from Poland to lead NATO’s military Very High Readiness Joint Task Force for 2021. The move is highly questionable, given Turkey’s overt ambition of rebuilding the Ottoman Empire, its constant bullying and threats of war with Greece, its alliance with Qatar […]
Islamic Terror State Convicts Journalist of Terrorism for Exposing its Terrorism
Kafka is not welcome in Erdogan’s Turkey. And while the New York Times pressures Netflix to stream Turkish Islamist agitprop pushing the Khashoggi myth, here’s what happens to actual journalists in Turkey. Can Dündar, the former editor-in-chief of Turkish newspaper Cumhuriyet, was convicted Wednesday on charges of terrorism in Turkey and sentenced in absentia. The Istanbul court convicted Dündar of aiding […]
Turkey: Last of the Byzantine Greeks facing extinction under Islamic hardliner Erdogan
“The Greeks who represent the last vestiges of Christian Byzantium and the Roman Empire are heading towards their final extinction in Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Turkey, with their numbers dwindling to a mere handful” under his Islamic hardline government. Erdogan has made his ambitions clear: he wants a revived Ottoman Empire, and his actions have shown […]
Iranian paper: ‘Neo-Ottoman’ Turkey hopes to ‘divide Iran and annex Azerbaijan to form the Greater Turkistan’
The saying “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” can only go so far. It’s only a matter of time before the Shia/Sunni divide reignites and intensifies. Both Iran and Turkey seek regional and global dominion. Iran seeks a revived Persian Empire, and Turkey a revived Ottoman Empire. Meanwhile, as those two countries keep […]
UK: Johnson government signs a multi-billion-dollar trade deal with Turkey amid Trump sanctions
Britain and Turkey are set to sign a multi-billion-dollar free trade deal this week, despite Trump’s sanctioning of Turkey due to its threats in the region and worldwide. British trade minister Liz Truss boasted: “We now look forward to working with Turkey towards an ambitious tailor-made UK-Turkey trade agreement in the near future.” All this […]
Greek intelligence operation tracking illegal Muslim migrants discovers Turkish and Lebanese spies
Turkey, which has been bullying Greece for some time, recently threatened the EU that it shouldn’t “dare” to impose sanctions over Turkish aggression toward Greece and Cyprus. For the past few months, Greece has been bolstering its military, amid Turkey’s ongoing “provocative statements” and “near-daily” threats of war. Particularly worrying with the latest spy news […]
Greek government accuses Turkey of facilitating Somali migration to Greece
Why, those racists in Athens! What’s the big deal if Greece is flooded with Somalis? What could possibly go wrong? “Athens accuses Ankara of facilitating Somali migration to Greece,” AFP, December 8, 2020: The Greek government on Tuesday accused Turkey of encouraging Somali migration through promotion campaigns and visa offers, and then allowing the migrants […]
Turkey: Muslim Professor Questions Muhammad, Qur’an, Receives Death Threats, is Forced to Resign
Mustafa Öztürk, a professor of Islamic Theology at Istanbul’s Marmara University and a columnist, has become a target of the pro-government media and Islamic movements in Turkey following his comments concerning the Koran. Exposed to a lynching campaign and death threats on Twitter, the professor had to resign from his post at university and retire. […]