Outside Source
Thursday, December 12th 2024
By David Bensoussan The author is a professor of science at the University of Quebec. For 54 years, the Assad dictatorship, led by father and son, ruled Syria with an iron fist, even resorting to chemical weapons against their own population. Since the onset of the civil war in 2011, the country has splintered into […]
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Wednesday, November 20th 2024
Levent Kenez Nordic Monitor, Nov. 19, 2024 “I am in a war. I do not have the luxury of showing my feelings.” Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, during a November 15 interview broadcast on A Haber, a government-aligned television channel run by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s family, stated that he is “in a war” and […]
Nadav Shragai Israel Hayom, Nov. 14, 2024 “Erdogan’s congratulations to President-elect Donald Trump on his victory should remind the American president of Turkey’s deceptive overtures to Israel just two years ago.” Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan‘s support for Hamas and hostility toward Israel have reached a critical point, with Turkey providing sanctuary to Hamas operatives while […]
Sinan Ciddi Washington Examiner, Nov. 16, 2024 “Erdogan’s championing of Hamas is entrenched. Turkey is the only country inside the NATO alliance and, certainly, the only U.S. ally that openly embraces Hamas as a group of “resistance fighters.”” Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan feels he has reason to be optimistic. He was bracing for the election of Vice President Kamala […]
Michael Rubin Middle East Forum, Nov. 4, 2024 “Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan took a formidable military and sought to remake it in his own image.” A video circulating on Telegram and other social media suggests North Korean Special Forces dispatched to fight Ukraine on Russia’s behalf have seen their first combat. The video purports to interview the single North Korean […]
Monday, June 17th 2024
Noa Lazimi JNS, June 9, 2024 “What can be more ironic than Erdoğan pretending to show concern for the welfare of Gazans in early October 2023, while at the same time striking about 140 civilian targets in northern Syria, including bombing hospitals?” Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan seizes every opportunity to criticize the IDF’s […]
Gallia Lindenstrauss and Rémi Daniel, INSS Insight No. 1853, May 19, 2024 “The radicalization of Turkey’s approach is also part of Ankara’s efforts to influence the course of the war in the Gaza Strip.” Since the beginning of the war in the Gaza Strip, Turkey’s hawkish rhetoric toward Israel has stood out, but for months it was […]
Uzay Bulut Gatestone Institute, May 30, 2024 “Turkish government authorities have targeted their own indigenous peoples of Anatolia, namely the Pontic Greeks and Armenians.” Turkey’s Islamist government under President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is preparing to further indoctrinate Turkish schoolchildren in propaganda regarding Israel, Greeks, Armenians, Cyprus and other issues of history and geography. New […]
Wednesday, April 10th 2024
Shira Li Bartov Philadelphia Jewish Exponent, Mar. 27, 2024 “This is an opportunist leader. I don’t think he cares about Palestinians. He has been instrumentalizing the Palestinian cause for a long time.” Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s assertion earlier this month that Turkey “firmly backs” Hamas was the culmination of months in which the Turkish president has lambasted Israel’s […]
Dr. Hay Eytan Cohen Yanarocak The Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security, Apr. 4, 2024 “… the fall of Üsküdar into secular hands and especially to a woman mayor who does not wear a hijab clearly marks the depth of the radical change.” Although municipal elections are not considered a significant political inflection point, when […]
Yasar Bukan The Conversation, Mar. 12, 2024 “… as Turkey’s foreign policy grew more assertive, the strategy faltered and the country found itself surrounded by more enemies and fewer friends.” Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan recently gave the clearest indication yet about his political future, stating, “With the authority that the law confers on me, […]
Levent Kenez Nordic Monitor, Apr. 3, 2024 “With government support Erbakan significantly expanded his outreach to a larger audience in Turkey by making frequent appearances on national television, openly propagating his antisemitic views on live TV.” Fatih Erbakan, a former political ally of the Turkish president and a notorious, antisemitic politician, attributed the government’s […]
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Thursday, June 8th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023
MEDIA COLLUSION Turkey and the Power of Controlling the Narrative: Elizabeth Shackelford, Chicago Tribune/ TNS, May 23, 2023 — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan defied all expectations when he won nearly half the vote in Turkey’s election on Sunday. This means he’ll face a presidential runoff for the first time, but he looks poised to […]
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