Western media wakes up to Turkey's IS links
His office has changed, but not his habits. Following a series of international media reports linking Turkey to the Islamic State (IS), President Recep Tayyip Erdogan spoke of a conspiracy. Blasting The New York Times story about residents of Ankara’s Hacibayram neighborhood joining IS, he used the now-familiar “shameless” and “vile” epithets. His target this time was Ceylan Yeginsu, the reporter from the Times’ Istanbul bureau whose byline appeared on the story. According to the president, Yeginsu aimed to smear Turkey rather than to do objective journalism.
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