"Losing Turkey to the Islamists
A look at Turkey’s history shows how very un-Turkish is the mindset of its current Islamist rulers.
“Democracy is like a streetcar. When you reach your stop, you get off.”
— Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Turkey’s recent open embrace of terrorist regimes like Iran and Syria, its high-profile attempt to thwart our efforts to impose sanctions on Iran, and its dramatic push to take over the leadership of the Islamic world by supporting Hamas and Hezbollah and attacking Israel even more virulently than current Arab leaders do — all this came as a big surprise to the foreign-policy establishment in both the European Union and the United States. The Turkish government that did all this — the government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the AKP, his Islamist Justice and Development party — took power in 2002. And from then until now, the EU has been the AKP’s biggest booster, with the U.S. running a close second."
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