"The Furious Passage of Tayyip Erdogan
January 30th, 2009 By: Michael van der Galien
This is a guest column written by Robert Ellis; he is a regular commenter on Turkish affairs in the Danish press and his columns appeared in Turkish Daily News (now Hurriyet English) regularly.
The Furious Passage of Tayyip Erdogan
By Robert Ellis
Turkey’s prime minister, Tayyip Erdogan, is not a man who brooks being contradicted and a panel debate on the Gaza war at the World Economic Forum was no exception. What was hoped to be a bridge-building exercise to ameliorate Erdogan’s harsh criticisms of Israel’s incursion into Gaza and support for Hamas has turned out to be a public relations disaster."
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