Why? It’s all about Islam. Karagül says that Israel is “a racist idolatrous structure that is at war with Allah.” How does Allah fight those who go to war against him? Through the Muslims: “Fight them, and Allah will punish them by your hands, and he will lay them low and give you victory over […]
Erdogan Mouthpiece in Turkey: ‘The West May Become the East and the East May Become the West’
Ibrahim Karagul, the editor of Yeni Safak, the Turkish newspaper that is the mouthpiece of the AKP, President Erdogan’s party, in March 2020 wrote a column about all the fantastic changes that he thought our giddy globe would soon undergo. East would become West, and West become East, and the powerful become powerless, and the powerless […]
Turkey: The New Superpower?
In March 2020, Ibrahim Karagul, then of the Turkish government mouthpiece Yeni Safak, reflected the self-image and aspirations of the Turkish regime. For that, his piece remains relevant, and is worth examining in depth. Karagul asserts that Turkey is one of the “new superpowers.” Yet Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has alienated nearly everyone. If […]
Jejune and Vapid Vaporings From Turkey
Back in 2020, MEMRI published a translation of a strange and incomprehensible piece by Ibrahim Karagul, who was then the editor of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s mouthpiece, Yeni Safak. Here, then, is a glimpse into the mind of the Turkish intelligentsia: Of course, we are going to learn from the past, from human history, […]
In Turkey, Time Has Stopped and History Has Been Reset
Back in March 2020, Ibrahim Karagul, who was at that time the editor of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s mouthpiece, Yeni Safak, managed to say absolutely nothing in a great many words. I tried to find something that made sense; I failed; perhaps you can do better. Yet one thing was clear when the piece […]
Turkey: Pro-Erdogan journalist hails Azerbaijan ‘purging its cities, villages, mountains and lands’ of Armenians
Turkey did the same thing in the early twentieth century, “purging its lands” of Armenians by means of genocide. Note that the rhetoric of “occupation” that Karagül uses here is the same as that employed by jihadis in the “Palestinian” territories, as well as in Jammu and Kashmir and elsewhere. Jihadis routinely frame their struggles […]