Tuesday, August 25, 2015

Is Erdogan afraid of poking the IS bear? - Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle East

Is Erdogan afraid of poking the IS bear?

On Aug. 17, news broke that the Islamic State (IS) released a video threatening Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. In the seven-minute video, three men with rifles sit cross-legged in rocky terrain. Only the one with the graying beard, known by the alias Abu Ammar, speaks in fluent Turkish, with carefully repeated Arabic sayings spread throughout the message.

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