One wonders if the Obama administration paid attention to any of many warnings about the anti-Israel direction of the Erdogan government...the Obama administration’s decision to abandon Israel at the U.N., as eloquently described here by Elliott Abrams, seems less than surpising.
Until now, radical Islam in Turkey has been widely considered a second-tier example of “soft” Muslim fundamentalism, overshadowed by the acute examples of al Qaeda, Saudi-financed Wahhabism, Pakistani jihadism, the Pakistani Deobandi movement that inspired the Taliban, and Khomeinist clericalism.
But the movement of the Erdogan government away from Turkey’s long-standing alliance with Israel and its new alignment with Iran and Syria are deeply worrying.
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