Turkey: Erdogan Fueling Hostility Against the West
by Uzay Bulut from The Gatestone Institute • October 13th
The current problem is greater than the Turkish government's violations against territorial waters and airspace of Greece, its continued occupation of northern Cyprus, or its threatening Europe with mass Muslim immigration or Islamist terrorists, among other hostile actions.
The problem includes Erdogan's fueling of hatred and hostility within society against Europe and the rest of the West.
This attitude does not seem fit either for Turkey's European Union candidacy or its NATO membership.
On September 13, a group of Islamists in Istanbul's Beyazit Square protested against French President Emmanuel Macron. They held placards warning that Macron and the satirical French magazine, Charlie Hebdo, "will pay a heavy price."
The protesters were condemning Macron for his stance supporting Charlie Hebdo's decision to republish cartoons of Islam's Prophet Mohammed and France's commitment to freedom of expression, and against Macron's support for Greece in the face of escalating Turkish aggression in the eastern Mediterranean during the ongoing crisis between Greece, Turkey and Cyprus.
Charlie Hebdo, along with a kosher supermarket in Paris, were the targets of a massacre by Islamist gunmen in January 2015. The magazine recently reprinted the images to mark the start of the trial earlier this month of the alleged accomplices in the mass murder.
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