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May: The end of Turkey’s democratic experiment
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Erdogan now has the power to make his country more authoritarian and more Islamist On the grounds of the Turkish Embassy facing Massachusetts Ave. in Washington, D.C. is a statue of Mustafa Kamal Ataturk, father of the Republic of Turkey, the nation-state he built from the rubble of the defeated Ottoman Empire and Islamic caliphate.…
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May: A bloody day in London town
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The ideologies driving the carnage can’t be fought until they’re understood “The Kafir’s Blood Is Halal For You, So Shed it.” That’s just one of the catchier headlines in a recent issue of Rumiyah, a slick online magazine published by the Islamic State, also known as ISIS and ISIL. A “kafir,” of course, is a…
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Colorado family says son died fighting for Kurdish militia
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The parents of a Colorado man reported killed fighting against the Islamic State group says their son joined Kurdish forces to “fight the evil that is ISIS.” Jordan MacTaggart, 22, was believed to be killed on Aug. 3 while fighting in a squad that included two Americans and a Swede in Manbij, Syria, said his father Robert…
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May: The Mr. Rogers Doctrine
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Obama wants Saudi Arabia and Iran to ‘share the neighborhood’ Barack Obama last week visited Saudi Arabia, an unusual nation with which the United States has had a relationship that can be accurately characterized as both strategic and strange – and one that is now severely strained. To understand how we got to this juncture…
