Whether or not it is wise for the US to be backing the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG), this shows yet again that the old Cold War alliances have far outlived their usefulness, and the US needs to reconfigure its international relationships on the basis of the new realities of the global jihad. This has […]
Iraqi National Police General says Turkey is helping the Islamic State rebuild in Iraq
Back in 2015, in my book The Complete Infidel’s Guide to ISIS, I noted that Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was aiding the Islamic State in the ultimate hope of co-opting its caliphate and making it part of his own revived Ottoman caliphate. Even though the Islamic State has suffered severe losses in Iraq and […]
Council of Europe to Erdogan: “Stop promoting political Islam in Europe”
The multinational proposal tabled last year by the parliamentarians of the Council of Europe (CoE), the large intergovernmental organization that champions democracy, the rule of law and fundamental human rights in 47 European countries, has led to a resolution that calls on the regime of Islamist Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to stop funding Islam […]
Turkish media reports Saudi suspect in Khashoggi case dies in suspicious car accident
It is very hard to know whom to believe in this case. Would the Saudis do something like this to suppress evidence? Of course. Did they? Maybe. “Saudi suspect in Khashoggi case ‘dies in car accident’: Report,” Hürriyet Daily News, October 18, 2018: A Turkish newspaper reported on Oct. 18 that one of the suspects […]
Turkish claim that Khashoggi recorded his torture inside Saudi consulate almost certainly impossible
The Saudis have admitted killing him. But the Turks claims’ about the circumstances of the killing cannot be taken at face value. The Turks and the Saudis are rivals for leadership of the Sunni Islamic world, and so both have an interest in dissembling about what happened here and exploiting Khashoggi’s death for their own […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: Pastor Brunson’s Deed of Derring-Do
Pastor Andrew Brunson has now been released from house arrest in Turkey and returned to the United States, but the lessons of his captivity should not be forgotten. In the long saga of Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s refusal to release Brunson, the pastor was held for months in a single cell along with 17 Muslim prisoners […]
Turkey releases US Pastor Andrew Brunson after holding him for two years on false charges
Another triumph of Trump administration diplomacy. The Erdogan regime had hoped to trade Brunson for Fetuhullah Gulen, whom Erdogan has scapegoated as the supposed leader of a coup against him (Gulen and Erdogan are both adherents of political Islam; their rift is personal). Instead, Brunson is coming home. “Pastor Andrew Brunson released to U.S. diplomatic […]
Germany: Turkish anti-terror unit cars spotted in Berlin, intimidating Erdogan’s critics
Erdogan clearly believes that he can operate against his foes in Germany with impunity, without fear of interference from the German government. Merkel’s regime, of course, wouldn’t dream of doing anything to anger Erdogan. It needs the votes of Turkish Muslim migrants too much for that. “Turkish ‘police cars’ spotted in Berlin,” translated from “Türkische […]
Turkish airstrikes target Christian villages in Iraq
Turkey is a rogue state that is in no sense an ally of the United States. Turkey should be expelled from NATO, which is configured according to outdated Cold War realities. It needs to be reconfigured in light of the realities of the global jihad. “Turkey Airstrikes Target Iraqi Christian Villages; Activists Call for War […]
1,566 pounds of heroin found in Iranian trucks entering EU from Turkey
Jihadists have used drugs to fund their efforts for years. Years ago, in his study of the Taliban, journalist Ahmed Rashid reported: “Abdul Rashid, the head of the Taliban’s anti-drugs control force in Kandahar, spelt out the nature of his unique job. He is authorized to impose a strict ban on the growing of hashish, […]