by Daniel Pipes The Washington Times June 19, 2013 Rebellion has shaken Turkey since May 31: Is it comparable to the Arab upheavals that overthrew four rulers since 2011, to Iran’s Green Movement of 2009 that led to an apparent reformer being elected president last week, or perhaps to Occupy Wall Street, which had negligible […]
May 16, 2013 12:42 by Pesach Benson Top Stories 1. UK taxpayers are funding BDS garbage, with an assist from the UN. The Jerusalem Post reports: Charles Tannock, a Member of the European Parliament, told The Jerusalem Post: “I totally oppose the promotion, by a UK taxpayer-funded organization such as the British Academy, of events […]
Even though he is the commander in chief, there are some orders that even President Obama cannot give – as he found out today, much to the chagrin of a put-upon U.S. Marine. Hosting Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the Rose Garden, the president requested a standing Marine to open an umbrella and […]
At a meeting with Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu promised that Israel would continue to maintain good ties with Cyprus, regardless of its newly-rekindled relationship with Turkey. Netanyahu met with the newly-elected Anastasiades on Sunday night, before he departed for China. At a press conference after the meeting, Anastasiades said that Israel […]
by Daniel Pipes March 14, 2013 Cross-posted from National Review Online, The Corner Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has served longer than any person as prime minister of the Republic of Turkey, today marks his completion of a full decade in that office, having entered it on March 14, 2003. Born in February 1954, he is […]
John Kerry equated the Boston Marathon bombing with Israel’s raid on the Mavi Marmara raid. AP writes: Mr. Kerry said he understood the anger and frustration of those Turks who lost friends and family in the raid. Mr. Kerry, a former Massachusetts senator, said last week’s Boston Marathon bombings made him acutely aware of the […]
Turkey dismissed on Sunday evening a news report suggesting that an Israeli delegation set to arrive in Ankara on Monday would hold talks about Israel using a Turkish airbase to train for a possible attack on Iranian nuclear facilities. The report, which appeared in the Sunday Times, said that National Security Council chairman Yaakov Amidror […]
A recent assassination attempt in Turkey offers valuable lessons for the West concerning Islamist hate—and the amount of deceit and betrayal that hate engenders towards non-Muslim “infidels.” Last January, an assassination plot against a Christian pastor in Turkey was thwarted. Police arrested 14 suspects. Two of them had been part of the pastor’s congregation for more than […]
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will offer Turkey to play a role in the peace process between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, the Turkish daily Hurriyet reported on Saturday. The report said that Kerry plans to make this offer during his visit to Turkey on Sunday and that the offer will be made because […]
by Daniel Pipes March 29, 2013 Cross-posted from National Review Online, The Corner I was appalled to learn a week ago that the Israeli prime minister had apologized to his Turkish counterpart for his government’s actions during the Mavi Marmara incident, seeing this as feeding the Turkish government’s inflated sense of grandeur and power. That […]
