Tag: Turkey

Today’s Turkey is a cautionary tale for the West. But Western leaders are loath to consider its lessons. Ever since Turkey’s Islamist Justice and Development AKP party under Recip Tayip Erdogan won the November 2002 elections, Western officials have upheld

“U.S. intelligence has found that the Iranian regime has provided Syria with technology and know-how to monitor and censor cell phones, text messaging, and internet traffic among the political opposition inside Syria using the equipment Iran got from Nokia Siemens

Turkey’s Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu grandiloquently proclaimed a few days ago that, “If the world is on fire, Turkey is the firefighter. Turkey is assuming the leading role for stability in the Middle East.” Turkey’s President Gül warmly greets Ahmadinejad.

A telephone poll of a random sample of 615 Egyptians, conducted from March 9-20, indicates that there’s very little reason for the West to be concerned about Egypt becoming a hardline Muslim country. In particular, there’s absolutely nothing that supports

Photo by AP: Elham Omar Hotaki, deputy of the pilot project of the planned New Kabul City walks past by a white line showing part of the outline of a planned new city north of Kabul. — If you like

The fall of the Roman Empire was not a sudden event. The imperial power wielded by Rome decreased gradually over the course of centuries, during which time a steady deterioration was punctuated by repeated barbarian incursions and the sacking of

In the last couple of days, rebels have been sweeping towards Tripoli, capturing or recapturing one town after another — Ajdabiya, Brega, Uqayla, Ras Lanuf and Bin Jawad, according to the BBC. Sirte is still a Gaddafi stronghold, while Misrata

Syria’s president Bashar al-Assad made historic concessions to young protesters on Thursday, in a desperate effort to head off the fate of leaders of Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and other targets of “Arab Revolutions,” according to the BBC. Left: Bouthaina Shaaban

The Obama Administration has stumbled into a regional war (and potentially a world war) in the Middle East. Libya is not a case of democratic reform. And the casual language of “reform by protest” and so-called “universal values” has served

There are many reasons to be worried about the bridge-leap the Obama Administration has just undertaken in its war with Muamar Gaddafi. How it will all end is just one of them. What I find particularly concerning is the prospect

As I see it the unfolding of events in Libya presages an America that is regarded as weak and ineffectual by own enemies and untrustworthy among our friends. Without opening another “front” in North Africa, the U.S. had the ability

March 15th in the open waters of the Mediterranean Sea – an innocent looking commercial ship flying a Liberian flag is stopped by the Israel navy. The operation was approved by PM Netanyahu taking into account confirmed reports that the

He’s also trying to strike a bargain with the Egyptian military. Voice of America (VOA) reports: Libyan government warplanes have struck an oil facility near the rebel-held eastern town of Ras Lanuf during a heavy bombardment aimed at driving out

This is the second in a 10+ part series at Big Peace which will detail the history, objectives, strategy, operational structure, modus operandi, and influence of the Muslim Brotherhood in the United States. Click here to review Part I –

For better or worse, each passing day the Middle East is becoming more unstable. Regimes that have clung to power for decades are now being overthrown and threatened. Others are preemptively cracking down on their opponents or seeking to appease

I thought I was the only one that noticed this crucial and portentous development in the Middle East: the Egyptian military– the force so many Western observers believed would be the bulwark keeping the Islamist parties at bay– gave a

At at a 2:45 PM meeting on Wednesday with Counsul General Jacob Dayan of Israel at Scripps College, I asked him what he says to the people who wrongly say that Hezbollah isn’t a terrorist organization. He answered very directly,

While everyone’s eyes are on Egypt and its possible Islamization, something even more significant is going on under the wire in Turkey. The government of Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan took a major step towards consolidating its regime by conducting

I’ve received a number of questions about Egypt and the Muslim Brotherhood. Muslim Brotherhood logo Here’s one that arrived today: “I subscribe to your RSS feed and happen to find your analysis interesting. However, I am curious how you can

The Texas State Senate is now officially complicit in the furtherance of stealth Jihad in America. It makes no difference if its recent actions demonstrate willful collaboration or willful ignorance; the result is the same. Shamefully, the facts behind Senate

Barack Obama’s stance on Egypt indicates that he would accept the replacement of that country’s secular government with an Islamic one. Such a premise may be disturbing but it is nonetheless trumped by the administration’s actions in the days since,

Something interesting happened at Auschwitz in recent days. It appears that the former death camp was visited by a group of religious leaders, including the largest Muslim contingent known. According to a media account of the event, ” The delegation,

As Egypt’s much-anticipated moment of crisis arrived and popular rebellions shook governments across the Middle East, Iran stands as never before at the center of the region. Its Islamist rulers are within sight of dominating the region. But revolutions are