Trump actually congratulated Erdogan on the outcome. Trump apparently thought it was a good thing that, despite all the flaws in the process, a bare majority of Turkey’s citizens voted to strengthen their populist leader. I don’t think any other…
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Eric Brown: The Fall of Turkey – The American Interest
Erdogan’s will to power is putting Turkish national security at risk. ISIS is zeroing in on these glaring divides, trying to exploit them for its own purposes. In time, the collusion of intransigent PKK factions with Iran or Russia, Turkey’s…
us v is (What’s So Funny… 2)
…you do seem, at least, to be endlessly rationalizing U.S. imperial overreach, as if it were some sort of grand strategy upholding universal “liberal democracy”, where I tend to see incoherence, disintegration and devolution, on the part of grossly incompetent,…
Posted in Neo-Imperialism, notes, Political Philosophy, War Tagged with: IS, neo-imperialism, Syria, Turkey
The greatest threat to the Islamic Revolution since its inception?
Tehran initially viewed the rise of the Islamist Justice and Development Party (AKP) in Turkey with much enthusiasm. It has turned into a nightmare.
The cost of Islamophobia
I’ve struggled to explain why I think the anti-Islamism/Islamophobia of Pamela Geller, Bruce Bawer, Andy McCarthy, and others is counterproductive, where not also despicable, by addressing it on its own terms, but a couple of recent articles by much more…
Posted in International Relations, Religion Tagged with: Anti-Islamism, Green Movement, Ground Zero Mosque, Iran, Israel, Pamela Geller, Turkey, Turkey, Walter Russell Mead