This story was originally published by the WND News Center and is reprinted with permission. Turkey’s imperial ambition of creating a Pan-Turkic empire, ruled from Ankara, is on display in today’s Caucasus and elsewhere. This racist ideology envisions an empire that would include any country or region speaking a Turkic-type language regardless of how distant […]
Far-Left rabbi has ‘fangirl moment’ in chance encounter with Turkey’s anti-Semitic Erdogan
Why would she be so thrilled to meet this anti-Semite? They share the same world view. “WATCH: J Street Rabbi Has ‘Fangirl Moment’ During Chance Encounter With Anti-Semitic Dictator,” by Andrew Stiles, Washington Free Beacon, September 19, 2022: Turkish strongman Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has repeatedly denounced Israel as a “terrorist state,” met an unlikely admirer […]
Czech Republic, currently holding EU presidency, slams Turkey over threats to Greece
The Czech Republic currently holds the rotating presidency of the European Union, and the tiny country has taken on Turkey in a rebuke over its longstanding and escalating threats to Greece. Recently, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that Greeks have a “vile character” and threatened to attack. Raising Ottoman history with Greece, Erdogan stated: […]
Erdogan says Greeks have ‘vile character,’ his government partner threatens war, says Greece is on stolen land
Bahçeli said: “The Blue Homeland [Greece] is the stolen and inhabited geography of the Turkish nation.” This is based on the fact that Greece was once part of the Ottoman Empire. Bahçeli is proceeding from the assumption that any land once ruled by Islam belongs by right to Islam forever, which is based on the […]
Erdogan Blasts Israel For Defending Itself
Recep Tayyip Erdogan, whose relations with Israel are an unsteady whirligig, up, down, and around and where it will stop nobody knows – has now let loose with a barrage of criticism against Israel for its just-completed Operation Breaking Dawn. This comes after many months when Erdogan had been reaching out to Jerusalem, in the […]
Turkey: 12th grade public school textbook promotes armed jihad
The textbook is called “Fundamentals of Islam’s Religious Beliefs.” Yet in the West, all the learned analysts assume that armed jihad is not among the fundamentals of Islam’s religious beliefs. Maybe Max Abrahms and Will McCants and Graeme Wood and the rest can go over to Turkey and explain to Erdogan and the authors of […]
Turkey: Top court upholds exit from key treaty protecting women
“Last year’s decision to leave the convention came after some officials from Erdogan’s Islam-oriented party had advocated for a review of the agreement, arguing it was inconsistent with Turkey’s conservative values.” And that it is. Erdogan has led Turkey farther and farther away from secularism; his goal is to Islamize the country and create a […]
Putin meets with Erdogan and Raisi in Tehran
“Iran and Turkey signed preliminary agreements covering investment, diplomacy, media and business, among other fields, and pledged to triple bilateral trade, to $30 billion….” Why is Turkey still in NATO? “Putin holds talks in Tehran with leaders of Iran, Turkey,” Associated Press, July 19, 2022: TEHRAN, Iran — Russian President Vladimir Putin held meetings Tuesday in […]
Erdogan: ‘We warn Greece to stay away from actions that will result in regret, just as they did a century ago’
A century ago, the Ottoman government and its successor, the secular Turkish state, pursued the systematic extermination of over 1,000,000 Greek Orthodox Christians. Is Erdogan threatening a new genocide? “Erdogan: We warn Greece to come to its senses,” translated from “Erdoğan: Yunanistan’ı aklını başına alması konusunda ikaz ediyoruz,” Nûpel, June 9, 2022: President Erdoğan of […]
Erdogan Plans Land Seizure In Northern Syria
Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the neo-Ottomanist president of Turkey, who sits plotting and planning in his 1,150 room Ak Saray, or White Palace, is mischief-making again. Now he has announced that Turkish troops will be occupying a 30-kilometer-deep stretch along the Turkish border with northern Syria. The troops will remain for as long as Turkey deems there […]