Recep Tayyip Erdogan

I am sorry to break the gloom, but I don’t think that the death of nine highly aware intruders into a war zone is actually a tragedy. The death by suicide bombing of an old woman in a mosque in Iraq or of more than 75 people at a volleyball game in Pakistan … these are true human catastrophes. But the fate of the Islamic jihadists was a mishap, nothing more than a mishap, and the relatives who love them should have kept them at home and on a short leash. READ MORE >>

The news was simple. It was leaked two weeks ago. READ MORE >>

Ankara, Turkey READ MORE >>

For more than a decade, you could take several things for granted in Turkey. Islamists normally had no role in government, the army was ultimately in charge of politics, and Ankara was a staunch ally of Israel. The rise of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey's popular prime minister, whose party was elected in 2002 in the biggest vote in recent Turkish history, changed the first two assumptions. Erdogan hails from an Islamic party that had pushed for the legalization of the headscarf and other blurrings of the line between mosque and state. READ MORE >>

The New Republic

If This Is A “Tragedy” Then What The Hell Is Sri Lanka Or The Daily Muslim Killings In Pakistan And Nigeria? Or, As Vice President Biden Put It, “What’s The Big Deal Here?"

The Islam Unseen by the President ... And Written Out of His View of the World

White Hot Bosporus

Obama's Turkish Ally: Denying The Armenian Massacre, Now Threatening an Armenian Deportation. Not a Single Media Report.

Turkey Club

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