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Thursday, September 04, 2014

Erdoğan's Second Home Not in Good Shape :: Middle East Forum

Erdoğan's Second Home Not in Good Shape

by Burak Bekdil
Hürriyet Daily News
September 3, 2014

During his visit to Tehran in January, then-Prime Minister (now President) Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said, "Iran feels like his second home." Turkey's political Islam, through the ranks of which Mr. Erdoğan proudly comes from, has had a love-envy-hate relationship with Shia Iran since the 1979 Islamic revolution: envy, because the Iranians, not the Turks, built an Islamic state; love, because it is an Islamic state, but; hate, because it is a Shia Islamic state.

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