Turkey? Antisemitic? Who, Me?
by Burak Bekdil
The Gatestone Institute
October 1, 2014
Will the real Erdogan please stand up? From "Why are you running away, you sperm of Israel!" to "I am very sad to see that my country, myself, and my colleagues, sometimes, are labeled as being antisemitic."
Last May an explosion at a mine in western Turkey killed 301 miners. Ankara declared national mourning. But President (then-Prime Minister) Recep Tayyip Erdogan's response to the town's grief was unusual for a head of a government.
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