The would-be caliph of course supports jihad activity. It is, in fact, his duty to further such activity. “Turkey supporting ISIS terror netrowk [sic] in India, probe agencies concerned: Report,” by Manish Shukla, Zee News, September 5, 2020 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): NEW DELHI: Following a recent security assessment, it has been found […]
September 6, 1955: Turkey’s Kristallnacht
September 6, 1955 started just like any other day for the Greeks, Armenians, and Jews of Istanbul—or Constantinople. ”I resided in Cengelkoy with my wife and two children back then,” wrote Apostolos Nikolaidis in the book I Nihta ton Kristallon. ”Just as protests were starting in Taksim, I left my shop in Karakoy and went […]
Turkey demolishes iconic church, ‘Hagia Sophia of Bursa’
Bursa is the fourth largest city in Turkey. In 2013, the building was handed over to an Islamic foundation, which left it to rot. Now that it has been razed to the ground, it will be rebuilt as a cultural center. Turkey’s brazen contempt for Christianity in destroying or appropriating iconic churches, especially Hagia Sophia […]
Erdoğan’s Cultural Genocide Against Turkey’s Christian Heritage
In July, the Turkish government under President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan turned Hagia Sophia, the most iconic church of the Orthodox Christian world, into a mosque. In August, the historical Church of the Holy Saviour in Chora was also turned into a mosque. With these initiatives, Turkey has decidedly declared its aspiration to confront the Western […]
Turkey’s economy plunges as tourists stay away after conversion of Hagia Sophia, Chora church to mosques
“A gesture to Muslims is [a] much more immediate [political gain] and preferable and the [gains from the] touristic side of Hagia Sophia can be negligible,” Sonmez argued. “That’s why he didn’t take it into consideration.” That is, the benefits of asserting Islam’s superiority over both secularism and Christianity outweighed for Erdogan any economic considerations. […]
One-third of Egyptians see Turkey as the world’s leading Muslim country, many are willing to fight for it
As Turkey expands its footprint across the Arab world, using force more than diplomacy, many Muslims in Egypt — the country that gave birth to the Muslim Brotherhood — see Turkey as the leading Muslim country, and they are willing to fight for it. Undoubtedly Turkey has become today’s Islamic supremacist strongman, newly emboldened especially […]
‘The threat that is coming out of Turkey is similar to the threat that was coming out of Iran after the revolution’
David Lepeska here provides an excellent summary piece of Turkey’s movement away from secularism and back to Islam. And while it is certainly true that “the threat that is coming out of Turkey is similar in many ways to the threat that was coming out of Iran after the revolution,” Turkey’s transition into an Islamic […]
Turkey grants citizenship to dozens of “most senior” Hamas jihadist operatives and their families
In mid-August, Jihad Watch reported that Turkey had been accused of giving citizenship to Hamas members who were planning jihad terror attacks, which Turkey denied. Just over a week after that, Turkish President Erdogan hosted a large Hamas delegation, including wanted jihad terrorists who murdered Israelis. Now comes more: Turkey has granted citizenship to a […]
Turkey and Jihad
Turkey is in the news again for its hosting Hamas terrorists and granting them Turkish passports. The covenant of Hamas openly aims for annihilation of Israel. In a written statement, the US State Department “strongly objected” to Turkey’s hosting two Hamas leaders in Istanbul on August 22. Hamas leaders received red-carpet treatment from Turkish President […]
Erdogan hosts large Hamas delegation, including wanted jihad terrorists who murdered Israelis
Hamas is an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood, and Erdogan is a loyal supporter of it. They share a common Islamic supremacist mission “to restore the era of Islamic rule, seen by the Brotherhood as the basis for protecting ‘the Islamic nation.’” They also both share a hostility toward Israel, along with any other nation […]