Posts Tagged: Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Erdogan’s Coup Survival: Don’t Call It Democracy
Nihad Awad, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) executive director, is in Turkey this week. It isn't clear why, but Awad is taking advantage of his travels...
Will Turkey’s New Diplomatic Push Reduce Its American Muslim Brotherhood Support?
Turkey is mending fences with Egypt and cutting back its support for the Muslim Brotherhood in response to the deadly terror attacks that have struck...
Anger, Honor and Freedom: What European Muslims’ Attack On Speech Is Really About
"Clash of civilizations," some say. Others call it the "failure of multiculturalism." Either way, the cultural conflicts between some Muslims and non-Muslims worldwide continue to...
Erdogan Critic Unfazed by Threats of Prosecution, Death
For 17 days this month, Dutch columnist Ebru Umar was held against her will in Turkey, and legally barred from leaving the country. Her alleged crime: insulting...
As Erdogan Seizes Even More Power, What Will Happen to Israel-Turkey Relations?
JNS.org - An Israeli diplomat indicated this week that the Jewish state and Turkey are continuing to make a concerted effort to rebuild the strained relationship...
Erdogan Expands His Assault on Journalists Beyond Turkish Borders
Ebru Umar was angry. A Dutch journalist of Turkish heritage, she has been known to take that anger to the page. On the night of...
Turkey’s Erdogan Cites Hitler’s Nazi Germany as ‘Effective’ Presidential System
JNS.org - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who is seeking to increase the powers of his office, cited Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Germany as an example of...
President Erdogan: The Bully of Istanbul
Almost everyone at some time during their youth has seen and experienced a form of bullying; some may have even been a bully themselves. It might...
Paper Accuses ‘Jewish-Run New York Times’ of 100-Year Bias Against Turkey
A Turkish newspaper accused on Tuesday the "Jewish-family managed" New York Times of harboring a century-old bias against Turkey. The Sabah newspaper tweeted a link to...
Turkey’s Erdogan Meets With Iran’s Rouhani in Tehran
JNS.org - Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan met with his counterpart Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in Tehran on Tuesday in an effort to forge...
Isolated Incidents or Global War?
In response to the first attack in Paris on the offices of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, a member of a jihadi forum, affiliated...
‘Mossad Inflames Islamophobia by Causing Such Incidents:’ Anti-Semitic Ankara Mayor Blames Paris Terror on Israel
The openly anti-Semitic mayor of Ankara, the capital of Turkey, has engaged in another ugly tirade against Jews, blaming the Israeli intelligence service Mossad for...
Turkish President Erdoğan Launches Bitter Attack on Netanyahu, Hints at Conspiracy Theory Over Charlie Hebdo Attack
Turkey's authoritarian President, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, became the first world leader to break ranks with yesterday's message of unity articulated at the Paris...
Turkish Gov’t Fines Kurdish TV for Airing Holocaust Film ‘The Pianist’
Turkey's chief television and radio authority has fined a Kurdish channel for airing the Academy Award-winning film, The Pianist, the local Hürriyet daily said Sunday. The 2002...
