Turkey has occupied northern Cyprus since 1974, ostensibly to protect the Turkish Muslims there from attacks from the Greek Orthodox Christians. Those attacks were not, of course, really happening. And now Turkey’s Defense Minister, Hulusi Akar, has threatened that Turkey may renew its jihad in Cyprus: “We are at the same point in Cyprus that […]
Turkey vows to “fight terrorism until the end”
“Turkish national defense minister on Saturday reiterated that Turkey continues its fight against terrorism.” By this, he does not mean Islamic jihad; he means those groups and people that Turkey deems to be “terrorist,” such as Israel, evangelical Christians, Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, and the Kurdish People’s Protection Units. Unfortunately, many Western counterterror analysts will […]