Readout of the President's Call with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey
by Clarence Schmidt | October 18, 2015 | 02:03
"The AKP government sees ISIS as a threat, but generally lists it below the PKK, PYD [a Syrian affiliate of the PKK], and even DHKP-C [an outlawed Marxist-Leninist Party in Turkey] in terms of potency". Given that Turkish journalists are jailed because they criticize the president and that police regularly clamp down on anti-government protesters, that statement seemed odd to a few. Thousands more have been arrested in police raids nationwide.
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