Turkey’s President Erdogan has aroused suspicion in the West by dragging his feet against the Islamic State and moving much more energetically against the Kurds than against the jihadis. But he has allowed the US to use a Turkish air base, and so that has lost him any sympathy he might have had among Islamic […]
Turkey’s President Erdoğan joins Qur’an defamation case as plaintiff
Erdoğan “has been harmed by the crime,” said his attorney, Ferah Yıldız. The poor shrinking violet! He should step down as President and retreat to quivering under his desk. This is, of course, flagrant pandering for Islamic supremacist support, which Erdoğan needs more than ever after his recent electoral setback. Will his close friend Obama […]
Turkey’s Erdogan: ‘Jewish capital’ is behind New York Times
Thinking that the New York Times is remotely pro-Jewish or pro-Israel shows how out of touch Erdogan really is — and demonstrates yet again how anti-Semitic conspiracy paranoia so often goes along with Islamic supremacism. “Turkey’s Erdogan: ‘Jewish capital’ is behind New York Times,” Haaretz, June 7, 2015: Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan lashed out […]
Get ready for Erdoğan’s caliphate, Turkey’s ruling party official says
Fuat Özgür Çalapkulu has come under some fire for saying this, but in reality, many (both for and against) have remarked upon Erdoğan’s desire to restore the Ottoman caliphate. That desire also explains why Erdoğan has been slow to move against the Islamic State in any really effective way, despite cajoling from John Kerry and others: […]
Turkey: Police use water cannon on anti-Islamization protesters
“Education is the latest flashpoint between the administration of President Tayyip Erdogan, and secularist Turks who accuse him of overseeing creeping ‘Islamisation’ in the NATO member state.” What? They oppose Islamization? But…but…we’re constantly told in the U.S. that only racist, bigoted Islamophobes oppose Islamization. How did Turkey get so full of racist, bigoted Islamophobes? Kemalism […]
Turkey’s Erdogan to EU: Time to crack down on “Islamophobia”
Erdogan has never called upon Muslim countries to crack down on jihad terror. Nor does he distinguish “Islamophobia” as attacks on innocent Muslims, which are never justified, from “Islamophobia” as honest examination of how jihadists use the texts and teachings of Islam to justify violence and supremacism. The conflation of those two distinct things by […]