Will No-Interest Banking Undo Turkey’s Economy?

by Daniel Pipes January 10, 2012 updated Jan 21, 2012 That’s the thesis implicit to David Goldman’s analysis at “Recall notice for the Turkish model.” After dubbing the Turkish economy ...

Turkey Out of NATO: Other Voices Discuss Turkey’s NATO Membership

by Daniel Pipes November 9, 2009 updated Jan 17, 2012 I raised the issue of Turkey’s continued membership in NATO in April 2009 at “Does Turkey Still Belong in NATO?“; ...

Islamic Scholar Scorches PA Mufti’s Call to ‘Kill the Jews’

Turkish Islamic scholar Adnan Oktar made a scorching response this week to a claim by the top Palestinian Authority religious leader that Muslims are obligated to kill the Jews. Oktar, who ...

French MP Valerie Boyer Is Threatened and Her Website Is Hacked by Turks

The aftershocks of the French National Assembly’s law criminalizing denial of the Armenian genocide continue. Valerie Boyer, an author of the bill and Vice President of the France-Armenia Friendship group, ...

Turkey & Israel – The End of the Affair

by Daniel Pipes December 22, 2011 Cross-posted from National Review Online Military relations have been at the core of the Ankara-Jerusalem entente. These took off in February 1996when the two ...

A Year of Dishonest Reporting — Why The Guardian Won

It was a landslide. HonestReporting readers were asked to choose this year’s Dishonest Reporting Award, and they spoke out — with a vengeance we haven’t seen for nominations in previous years. ...

Turkish President Slams Israel, Hails Hamas

Turkish president Abdullah Gul on Sunday said Israel should take advantage of the changes in the Middle East to achieve peace with the Palestinian Authority and the entire Arab world, ...

Obama Hugs Erdogan, Leader of Hostile State

by Daniel Pipes November 3, 2011 Hillary Clinton’s high-five in June with her Turkish counterpart, Ahmet Davutoglu, prompted me to write that she “should be ashamed of herself, horsing around ...

Turkey Working to Impose the Libyan Model on Syria

Turkey may have bungled relief efforts for the earthquake victims, but then Turkey has bigger fish to fry. Turkey has been increasingly asserting its control over the Syrian opposition to ...

Cyprus on the World Stage

by Daniel Pipes National Review Online October 11, 2011 Cyprus, an island near Turkey and Syria of roughly 1.3 million inhabitants, finds itself on the cusp of momentous change. As ...