by Daniel Pipes March 22, 2013 updated Mar 27, 2013 Cross-posted from National Review Online, The Corner On Feb. 27, Recep Tayyip Erdogan told a conference in Vienna, “Just like Zionism, anti-Semitism and fascism, Islamophobia must be regarded as a crime against humanity.” His calling the Jewish nationalist movement that built the State of Israel […]
The Dutch daily NRC writes that Mehmet Sahin, a doctoral student, has had to go into hiding with his family. The Mayor of Arnhem, Pauline Krikke, advised him to do so after he received death threats. Sahin is a volunteer who tries to re-educate street youths in Arnhem. A few weeks ago, he interviewed several […]
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu sharply condemned on Thursday evening Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s statement about Zionism and its comparison to fascism. “This is a dark and mendacious statement the likes of which we thought had passed from the world,” Netanyahu said. Earlier on Thursday, Erdogan used a speech about Islamophobia in Europe at […]
by Daniel Pipes February 18, 2013 Cross-posted from National Review Online, The Corner The Government of Israel, we learned yesterday from a Turkish source, has delivered Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) equipment by ELTA, a subsidiary of Israel Aerospace Industries, that gives military aircraft protection from electronic attacks. Not only will the AWACS planes, […]
by Daniel Pipes National Review Online October 16, 2012 NRO title: “Erdogan and Assad at War” Why does the Turkish government act so aggressively against the Assad regime of Syria? Perhaps Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan hopes that lobbing artillery shells into Syria will help bring a satellite government to power in Damascus. Maybe he […]
by Daniel Pipes February 10, 2013 updated Feb 11, 2013 In an upbeat 2008 article, “When fashion meets the skies!” the THY in-flight magazine Skylife celebrated 75 years of stewardess fashion with pictures and prose. Some excerpts from the airline’s fashion history: Hostesses first graced our planes with their presence in the late 1940’s. Since […]
by Daniel Pipes The Washington Times February 6, 2013 N.B.: Washington Times title: “Trading Europe for the Shanghai Five Turkey dissembles over joining the EU” Recent steps taken by the Government of Turkey suggest it may be ready to ditch the NATO club of democracies for a Russian and Chinese gang of authoritarian states. Here […]
by David J. Rusin • Feb 6, 2013 at 11:03 am Islamist Watch (IW) maintains an extensive archive of news items on nonviolent Islamism in the Western world. The complete collection can be found here; lists organized by topic are accessible on the right side of the IW homepage. The following are some of the […]
by Daniel Pipes February 4, 2013 updated Feb 5, 2013 Cross-posted from National Review Online, The Corner I wrote in The Hidden Hand, my 1996 book surveying conspiracy theories in the Middle East, that Turkey and Israel stand out as the only two Middle Eastern countries where leaders are fully accountable to electorates, where the […]
Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu criticized the Syrian government over the weekend, for failing to respond to an alleged attack by Israel inside Syria earlier this week, the Turkish daily Hurriyet reports. Davutoglu claimed that the Syrian stance raises suspicions that there is a secret deal between the two countries. “Why has the Syrian army, […]
