Tag: Erdogan

- "Mr. Erdogan’s government has been fomenting unrest in Syria for two years and indeed supported ISIS’s rebels until as lately as September 2013."

- Seth Ferris..." If someone has to take the flak for the continuing failures in Syria, will it be the US or its weaker ally Turkey?"

Exposing false flag operations to the fullest possible extent could be the salvation of humanity.

- Replacing Assad with a Turkish-backed puppet regime on Israel’s border would be the ultimate triumph for Mr. Erdogan as a modern-day Muslim Caliph.

- Gwenyth Todd..."What does Mr. Erdogan hope to gain from the fall of the Assad regime that justifies the risk he is taking?"

- Update: Erdogan says that if his party loses in the next election he will retire from politics, an indication that he definitely plans to win

- By revoking judiciary power Erdogan can act with total impunity and appears to be doing so...a threat to Turkish, Arab, European and US interests

- Israel active on Syrian-Turkish border

Egypt accused Iran of "unacceptable interference" in its domestic affairs for having criticized the Egyptian army's removal of elected president Mohamed Mursi last week.

The US will now supply weapons and ammunition to Syrian rebels the Washington Post says are, not just Al Qaeda “affiliates” but working to destabilize and “Balkanize” Iraq as well:

Erdogan: Hoist with his own petard.

Erdogan: Hoist with his own petard.

- John Kerry wants Turkey investigated for excessive force on protest crowds, but not the Syrian insurgents for atrocities. Go figure!

Recent statements by senior officials of the United States and other countries concerning Syria’s possible use of chemical weapons against opposition fighters have raised a legitimate question — who do the statements benefit, and why are they being made?

The open press statement of denial by senior reportedly former CIA official Graham Fuller in April of a link between the Boston Bombings and the CIA, labeling the reports “absurd,” may go down in history as one of the worst intelligence blunders in the past century.

The "one thousand reasons for Israel and Turkey to be friends" are the one thousand Zionist agents planted throughout the Turkish military.

A serious error," said Netanyahu's main political partner, Avigdor Lieberman, after learning that Israel had formally apologized to Turkey for the killing of nine of its citizens during the Gaza's Freedom Flotilla incident.

Before you arrived in Turkey, its prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, told a United Nations forum in Vienna that the international community should consider Islamophobia as a crime against humanity “like Zionism or anti-Semitism or fascism.”

Reports indicate that Israel is reportedly setting the stage for a full-scale war on Gaza.

Fighting against your own people is not heroism, but cowardice

Israel and Greece invoke mutual defense pact signed secretly 12 days ago

Turkish premier reiterates Ankara's intent to refer legality of Israel's blockade on Gaza to The Hague, saying the world will see 'who is standing alongside the victims'.

Everything else reported in the US about Turkey is false, dangerously false. The worst lies are the reports that Turkey's democratic government, freely elected, is "Islamist" and "extremist."

Turkey’s vibrant democracy is an inspiration to Arab countries throwing off their autocratic yoke and their Western patrons.