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Morsi Light
Turkey’s purge of Gulen supporters continued on Saturday with the closure of hundreds of private schools, charities and other institutions suspects of links with the US-based cleric. Ankara declared a...
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Dangerous Crossroads
The cancellation of this week’s commemorations to mark the 101st anniversary of the Battle of Lone Pine at Gallipoli would matter little to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. But it is indicative...
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Biden Snubbed
From the minute he stepped off the plane Wednesday, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden’s trip to Turkey seemed ill-fated. Intended to smooth relations frayed by last month’s botched coup, Biden’s visit...
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Syria à la Carte
One common description of chaos theory holds that the flapping of a butterfly’s wings can trigger a tornado. And it could very well be that the theory is the best tool we currently have available to...
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Bloodbath
Twin blasts rocked Istanbul this evening, with a car bomb detonating at a football stadium as a suicide attacker struck at a nearby park, killing 38 people and injuring 166 more. ‘Two bombings may have...
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Erdogans Faceplant
Until recently, Haci Boydak was a popular man. The 56-year-old operated several dozen companies, including Istikbal and Boytas, two Turkish competitors to IKEA. Politicians used to ask him for advice...
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Noisy People
Turkish Ambassador to Israel Kemal Okem was summoned Tuesday to the foreign minister at the bequest of Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in response to the harsh anti-Israeli...
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THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) is facing a major headache after Poland officially backed “full membership” of the bloc for Turkey. Turkey has repeatedly drawn the ire of EU chiefs in recent months due to a...
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Islamist Takeover
End of August, Madrid: At the Turkish government’s request through Interpol, Spanish police arrested a famous Turkish writer, Dogan Akhanli, who was on vacation in Spain. A few days earlier, in...
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Turkey’s strongman, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, may have exhibited all possible features of political Islam since he came to power fifteen years ago, but at least he has been bold and honest about...
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Erdogan Pledges to Bring Vetoed UN Security Council Resolution on Jerusalem to General Assembly. Link: http://bit.ly/2B7U2o4
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War Drums Sounding
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan recently said: “We warn those who have crossed the line in the Aegean and Cyprus… Their courage persists only until they see our army, our ships and our planes.”...
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An Excellent Question
What good is Turkey to NATO? Not much! In fact, at this point, Turkey’s negatives far outweigh its positives. Turkey is not so much a NATO partner as a liability. NATO was originally formed after World...
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Erdoğan Is A Huge Problem
Anyone who freely thinks for himself regarding Turkish President Erdoğan’s one-man rule, at home or abroad, can get the label “terrorist.” Many Middle East despots have historically accused the free...
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France Upsets Turkey
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. On April 21, the French daily Le Parisien published a “Manifesto against the new anti-Semitism,” written by Philippe Val, a co-founder and former director of the...
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Vicious Crime In Cypriot Past
So far, these “rabid murderers” have not been held accountable for the slaughter of innocent Greek Cypriots: the ethnic cleansing of northern Cyprus. Is Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, who keeps...
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Turkey ‘Obsessed’
Turkish Islamists’ understanding of religious freedoms is limited to freedom for the Islamic cause only. When non-Muslims deny Muslim minorities the rights that Muslim-majority countries systematically...
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The World’s Newest Tyrant
Millions of anti-Erdoğan Turks are now terrified of the prospect of further torment under an Islamist-nationalist coalition show run by a president with effectively no checks and balances. Nothing...
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A Fraudulent President Exposed
Consolidating a dictatorship, deepening divisions. The Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK) entered into a unilateral ceasefire prior to Turkey’s elections on June 24. Though Turkish armed forces repeatedly...
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Turkish Values Are Different
Since the 2016 botched coup attempt in Turkey, Erdogan has been waging a massive crackdown on his opponents and critics. How does Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan fight his political opponents,...
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