Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

Trump shames America by betraying the Kurds

October 15, 2019
Archbishop Cranmer
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The Kurds have no friends but the mountains. They helped us to defeat the ISIS/Daesh death cult, but now they are being cleansed from their ancient homeland by Turkey, where President Erdoğan says they are terrorists. As US troops were…

You will hear of wars, assassinations and terrorist atrocities… Joy to the world

December 20, 2016
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Christmas carnage in Berlin as Islamic State manage to get someone to plough a 27-ton HGV into a market, killing 12 and injuring 50. Weeping and wailing; mulled wine all…

Article 50 judgment is no big deal: Parliament will not subvert the will of the people on Brexit

November 5, 2016
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Has the world gone mad? What is this media hysteria? Why all the rage? Are people stupid, or is it just certain editors of certain newspapers? Who made everybody a…

Mrs Proudie: Sudden Jihadist Syndrome, Sultan Erdoğan, and nasty pieces of work

July 22, 2016
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Goodness! The sun has had his hat on this week and Barchester has been baking hot: we have had to hose down the old gentlemen at Hiram’s Hospital several…

Turkey purge: is military coup a lesser evil than Erdoğan's Islamism?

July 20, 2016
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Following last week's military coup – which is never the answer to anything – President Erdoğan is purging Turkey's civic institutions of every whiff of opposition, dissent, criticism and…

While Erdoğan seizes churches, Cameron fights for Turkey to join the EU

April 25, 2016
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David Cameron has pledged to fight for Turkey to be admitted to the European Union. This, he avers, would place them at "the top table of European politics", where,…

Should Christians vote for Turkey?

March 17, 2016
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The most important 'deal' recently agreed by the EU is not the one negotiated by the UK for a bit of welfare tinkering, but the €6bn settlement with Turkey…