Sami Al-Arian is right at home in Turkey. Erdogan recently demanded Allah to “damn Zionist Israel” in Eid al-Fitr remarks. In recent bad news, EU leaders started “lifting their opposition to key military hardware sales, to the alarm of Turkey’s rival Greece.” The Turkish president also recently demanded that Israel withdraw from Syria. So the […]
Erdogan: ‘May Allah damn Zionist Israel’
Turkey should not be in NATO, but if the left regains control in the U.S., it is more likely to break with Israel than with Turkey. “Erdogan demands Allah to ‘damn Zionist Israel’ in Eid al-Fitr remarks, Israel condemns,” by James Genn, Jerusalem Post, March 30, 2025: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan makes an anti-Israel […]
Jailed Erdogan rival named opposition candidate for Turkey’s 2028 presidential election
The trend in Turkey has been clear. The population wants the Islamic supremacist despot, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, out. But fascists use any means, no matter how low or violent, to cling to power. Erdogan’s long-ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), which rose to power in 2002, Islamized Turkey’s once-thriving secular society, corrupted elections, and seized […]
Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth says Israel working with Russia to keep Turkey out of Syria
Yedioth Ahronoth is Israel’s second-largest daily newspaper after Israel Today, and it reports that Israel is working with Russia to keep Turkey out of Syria. With most of the Western world obsessed with Russia and Ukraine, many may be nonplussed by this news. But there are other pressing issues besides Ukraine. For instance, Trump has […]
NYC: FBI arrest of Tajikistan national ‘exposes Turkey’s role as a logistics hub for ISIS-K’
Turkey is a growing menace as it advances the cause of the global jihad — both passively and actively — yet the country remains a NATO ally. What more has to happen for Turkey to be thrown out of NATO? Turkey facilitated the rise of the Islamic State. Its President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has global […]
Arab League invites jihadist Syrian leader to Cairo for Egypt-led summit on Gaza
Under Syria’s former President Bashar al-Assad, Syria was suspended from the Arab League in 2011, but now that the al-Qaeda linked jihadist Abu Mohammad al-Julani (aka Ahmed Hussein al-Sharaa) is president, Syria is now in good graces with the Arab League. Al-Sharaa was put there by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The Jerusalem Center for […]
Turkey to take in 15 Palestinians as part of Israel-Hamas deal
Turkey is a major Muslim Brotherhood backer, and thus also a Hamas supporter, providing ideological and financial aid, and even passports. Qatar also supports the Muslim Brotherhood. These jihadist murderers being released from Israeli jails will be fully at home in Turkey. But it isn’t only Turkey. Hamas has said that Pakistan has also agreed […]
Will President Trump Again Put Turkey — Not America — First?
In his 2017 and 2025 inaugural addresses, President Donald Trump pledged to “Put America first.” His 2017-2021 term, however, put Turkey and Turkish President Erdogan first. And his second term is looking even worse. In Trump’s Turkish Problem (2022), I cautioned the would-be candidate to “ditch his Turkish investments, Turkish-tainted cronies, and Turkish fixation … […]
Erdogan demands that Israel withdraw from Syria and ‘everyone take their hands off Syria’
Turkey is a dangerous Islamic supremacist state under its President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has expansionary goals of a revived Ottoman Empire with himself as caliph. And he’s getting closer. Now Erdogan is threatening Israel over Syria: “Israel rebuffs ‘imperialist’ Turkey after Erdogan says it must withdraw from Syria,” by Amy Spiro, Times of Israel, […]
Erdogan’s Imperial Ambitions
Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the President of Turkey, has imperial ambitions. He seeks to revive Turkish influence and where possible, rule, in the former lands of Ottoman Empire. More on his ambitions can be found here: “Why Erdogan’s Turkish Empire Is an Emerging Threat,” by Shoshana Bryen, Algemeiner, December 30, 2024: The world was once a series […]