The concern seems to have originated with Clash Report, which claims to report “breaking news, reports, and opinions from ongoing clashes of the world” in English, Turkish, and French. In any case, Hakkı Öcal needn’t worry: the Biden’s Handlers administration is already shaping up to be even more anti-Israel than the Obama administration. “Biden’s ‘Jewish-majority’ […]
Turkish Foreign Ministry slams Archbishop of Athens for ‘Islamophobia’ for pointing out that Islam is political
The fact that the Turkish Foreign Ministry would attack the Archbishop of Athens for abetting “the increase of racism, Islamophobia and xenophobia in Europe” confirms that the concept of “Islamophobia” is an illegitimate conflation of two distinct phenomena: crimes against innocent Muslims, which are never justified, and honest analysis of the motivating ideology of jihad […]
Erdogan Nurses Forlorn Hope For the Best with Biden As More and More Ask, Why Is Turkey Still in NATO?
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday, January 14, that he hoped positive steps will be taken by Washington on Turkey’s role in the F-35 jet program, and its ability to purchase the plane be reinstated, once US President-elect Joe Biden takes office. Erdogan described the ban on Turkey’s purchase of the F-35, in response […]
Turkey seeks ‘healthier’ relationship with Biden administration, requests that US sanctions be dropped
Turkey’s presidential spokesperson Ibrahim Kalı has announced that “Biden’s transition team is eager to develop a good relationship with Ankara.” But in “an unusual snub for a powerful NATO ally,” Biden has (at the time of this writing) flatly ignored Erdogan’s request for a phone call. The Trump administration placed sanctions on Turkey over its […]
Turkey and Pakistan to work together in joint efforts against international ‘Islamophobia’
Turkey and Pakistan have joined forces to fight “Islamophobia.” “Islamophobia,” to regimes such as Turkey and Pakistan, means to not offend Islam in the West. It is a means of exporting Islamic blasphemy laws and eroding the freedom of speech. Note how the real human rights violations in China against the Uighur Muslim community are […]
Erdogan’s Folly
By refusing American requests not to buy the S-400 missile defense system from the Russians, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has quite unnecessarily caused great damage both to Turkey’s economy and to its military. A report on his folly, by the always informative Burak Bekdil, is here: US CAATSA sanctions on Turkey’s defense industry are […]
Turkey: Poems and Genocides
From December 7 to 17, Turkey celebrated the “Week of Mawlana,” marking the life and legacy of one of the world’s most popular poets. Jalal al-Din Rumi, also known as Mawlana, was a 13th-century Persian poet and mystic philosopher. Born in Balkh (now in Afghanistan), Rumi authored thousands of Persian language lines of poetry, sermons, […]
San Francisco: Azerbaijani Muslims vandalize Armenian school, set fire to Armenian church
Wrong victims. Doesn’t fit the narrative. If the roles were reversed, which they would not be and should not be, this would be the focus of screaming international headlines. “Rising hate crimes against Armenians serve as a warning,” by Stephan Pechdimaldji, San Francisco Examiner, January 6, 2021: Over the past year the number of hate […]
Erdogan vows to ’employ his country’s military to secure Turkey’s place in a rebalanced new world order’
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is now positioning the Turkish military as the regional backbone of a “rebalanced new world order.” This news comes after Turkey took charge of NATO’s Very High Readiness Joint Task Force, which followed Turkey’s confirmation of an arms deal with Russia. Turkey should have been ejected from NATO long ago; […]
Why Revive a Nightmare?
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 […]