Turkey: Erdogan's World of Terrorists Includes Everyone but Terrorists
by Burak Bekdil
May 3, 2018 at 5:30 am
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- Anyone who freely thinks for himself regarding Turkish President Erdogan's one-man rule, at home or abroad, can get the label "terrorist."
- On April 25, a Turkish court sentenced 14 staff members of the opposition newspaper Cumhuriyet to prison on charges of "terrorism," and handed down sentences ranging from 2½ years to 7½ years.
- When Erdogan is not fighting hundreds of millions of "terrorists," including almost the entire European continent, the U.S. and probably half his own nation, he is busy cultivating deeper ties with countries such as Russia, Sudan and Iran.
Many Middle East despots have historically accused the free world of being terrorists.
For Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood, for instance, the entire Western civilization is a terrorist machine programmed to spill Muslim blood. Turkey's strongman, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, is no exception.
In an April speech Erdogan, evidently overcome with amnesia regarding Turkey's invasions of Northern Cyprus and, a few weeks ago, Syria's Afrin, called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a "terrorist." Erdogan told party loyalists:
"We don't have the shame of invading on us, Netanyahu. You are an invader and right now are present in those lands as an invader. At the same time, you are a terrorist."
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