What Erdoğan’s ‘Hero’ Says about Turkey
By Raymond Ibrahim – Conquering Christians and turning their churches into mosques seems to be very much on Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s mind these days. Last Friday, [...]
Turkish President Erdoğan’s Islamic Terror Links
By Raymond Ibrahim – New evidence linking Turkish president Erdogan to Islamic terrorists has just emerged. Osman Nuri Kabaktepe, a longtime friend and colleague of Erdogan, who was [...]
After Hagia Sophia, Turkey’s historic Chora church also switched to mosque
By Reuters – Reporting by Tuvan Gumrukcu; Editing by Dominic Evans/Mark Heinrich Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan reconverted the historic Chora church, one of Istanbul’s most celebrated [...]
Where Will Erdoğan Strike Next?
By Alberto M. Fernandez – MEMRI – Turkey’s economy, like that of many countries, is in trouble. The decline has been clear even before the coronavirus appeared, but the pandemic [...]
Following Erdoğan’s Promise To Convert Hagia Sophia ‘Back Into A Mosque,’ Quran Verses, Call To Prayer Recited In The Ancient Church
By MEMRI – In May 2019, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said: “A short time ago they converted the Hagia Sophia from a mosque to a museum. Inshallah, after the election, we [...]
Erdoğan’s ‘Make-Turkey-More-Islamic’ Campaign Is a Failure
By Burak Bekdil – The Gatestone Institute Trust for Islamist politics in both the Middle East and North Africa has plummeted since the beginning of the Arab Spring. A survey for BBC [...]
Turkey’s New Maps Are Reclaiming the Ottoman Empire
By Nicholas Danforth – Foreign Policy Erdogan’s aggressive nationalism is now spilling over Turkey’s borders, grabbing land in Greece and Iraq. In the past few weeks, a conflict between Ankara [...]
As Erdoğan moves, a precarious situation for Christians in Turkey
By Max Lindenman – Aleteia – Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is in a snit, and on a tear. Having survived last Friday’s military coup, the Turkish president has declared a three-month “state of [...]
Blame Erdogan for the Istanbul Airport Attack
By Leela Jacinto – Foreign Policy – The chickens are coming home to roost. Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim has publicly voiced what many of us thought — and tweeted — shortly after [...]
