Turkey

March 19, 2025 — John Hinderaker

Sound Familiar?

Featured image Turkey’s President Recep Erdogan is being denounced worldwide for arresting his chief rival in the upcoming presidential election: Turkish police have arrested Istanbul’s mayor, Ekrem Imamoglu, in a raid on his home just days before his opposition party was expected to nominate him as its candidate for the next presidential election. Did they search his wife’s underwear drawer? Police also arrested one of his senior aides…. Check. Hours after he »
December 8, 2024 — Scott Johnson

Assad flees

Featured image The murderous tyrant Bashar al-Assad has fled Damascus. His regime has fallen. Terrorist groups supported by third-parties have sent Assad running as the Syrian army proved unequal to the task of defending the regime. I should like to say Barack Obama hardest hit, but it could be Russia. It could be Iran. It’s too soon to say. The terrorists are described in the news reports as “rebels.” Soon they will »
January 1, 2023 — Scott Johnson

Freedom speaks

Featured image The Middle East Forum has posted an interview with Enes Kanter Freedom. This is the MEF introduction: Raised in Turkey, star basketball player Enes Kanter Freedom, recently of the Boston Celtics, began to call out human rights violations by Turkey’s President Recep Tayep Erdoğan in 2013. Not long after, Freedom’s Turkish passport was canceled, his name placed on an Interpol list, and his father imprisoned in Turkey. In 2017, Freedom »