Burak Bekdil, one of the bravest of Turkish journalists, deplores the damage done by Erdogan to academic achievement in the country he despotically rules. He recently offered a series of examples – each more absurd or outrageous than the next — of the level of “thought” recently exhibited by devout Muslim “scholars” and “professors,” […]
Erdogan Antagonizes His ‘Arab Brothers’
Burak Bekdil is a brave and humorful Turkish journalist who dares, while living in Ankara, to highlight the political follies of President Erdogan in articles he writes for foreign websites. A recent column of interest from him is here. Neither the Ottoman nor the modern Turkish language has ever been short of racist proverbs denigrating […]