Turkey has ‘so alienated everyone it cannot convince anyone to do anything’

(Occupied Constantinople) — Turkey is confronting what amounts to a strategic nightmare as Syrian migrants explode bombs  in its cities, its enemies encroach on its borders and its allies seemingly snub its demands. As recently as four years ago, Turkey appeared poised to become one of the biggest winners of the Arab Spring, an ascendant power […]

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Turkey’s Erdogan Praises “Hitler’s Germany” As Example Of Effective Government

Back in August, Nationalist opposition leader Devlet Bahceli took to Twitter to call Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan a “locally produced Hitler, Stalin or Qaddafi”: That comment came as Erdogan was busy undermining the coalition building process on the way to calling for new elections. “Accept it or not, Turkey’s governmental system has become one […]

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Insane Edrogan Pledges to Start WWIII Over Russian Anti-Aircraft Protection in Syria

Turks don’t understand hypocrisy, the Islamist president of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan told CNN International his country will consider it an act of aggression if Russia takes down a Turkish plane violating Syrian airspace, but Russia cannot shoot at Turkey when they shot down a Russian jet for no reason. Appears Greece should have shot down […]

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The Case Against Turkey’s NATO Membership

It’s time to dump Turkey from NATO, and immediately suspend its accession process to the European Union (EU). There, I said it. Some of us have been expressing deep concerns about the regress of the country of Ataturk for years, while others, including Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron and his European Parliamentary colleague Daniel Hannan MEP, […]

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Erdogan: I can’t condemn the ISIS for shooting down the Russian airplane

According to the Emirates News Agency (WAM), Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has raised eyebrows around the world capitals by justifying ISIS terrorists who brought down a Russian passenger plane in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula early saturday, killing all 224 people aboard. “The Russian airplanes are targeting Mujahidin in Syria and partisans fighting to topple Syrian […]

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Making Sense of the Ankara Bombing

by Daniel Pipes Oct 12, 2015 Cross-posted from National Review Online, The Corner It’s an especially delicate time in Turkish politics, between a first round of voting in June that resulted in a hung parliament and a second round scheduled for Nov. 1. The frenzied run-up to the latter election has witnessed growing violence against […]

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Cuba Rejects Erdogan’s Offer to Build Country’s First Mosque

Cuba has reportedly rejected Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s offer to build the country’s first mosque. Erdogan’s offer came during a speech in Istanbul to Muslim leaders from Latin America, in which he made the bizarre claim that Muslims discovered America nearly three centuries before Christopher Columbus. “Muslim sailors arrived in America from 1178,” Erdogan […]

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Obama and Erdogan Discuss Fighting Anti-Semitism

U.S. President Barack Obama on Friday urged Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to combat anti-Semitism, the White House said in a statement. “The President met with Turkish President Erdogan today in Newport, Wales, where both leaders were attending the NATO Summit. They exchanged views on how best to cooperate in the struggle against ISIS and […]

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