The Islamic supremacist and despotic Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has suffered what’s being described as the “worst election defeat since coming to power two decades ago.” The main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) is now Turkey’s leading party, “according to the preliminary results of Turkey’s local elections,” which took place on Sunday. Erdogan has […]
Turkey: Greek minority is on the brink of extinction
Turkey is a historic Greek homeland, the heartland of the Roman Empire in its Byzantine period. The Turks, however, have systematically practiced ethnic cleansing until there are almost no Greek Christians left in the country. “The Greek Orthodox minority in Turkey faces the threat of disappearance,” by Abdullah Bozkurt, Nordic Monitor, March 11, 2024: The […]
Turkey Revives Plan to Convert Another Historic Church Into a Triumphal Mosque
New in PJ Media: “If you look at history books, you will see that Turk equals Muslim,” Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Thursday. He added that “a definition of Turkishness without the inclusion of Islam’s holy war spirit is merely an attempt to turn the Turkish nation into a folklore tale.” On Feb. 23, Turkey plans […]
Turkey revives plan to convert another historic Byzantine church into a triumphal mosque
The conversion of the Chora Church to a mosque, following several years after the conversion of Hagia Sophia, is yet another declaration of Islamic supremacism. Erdogan is signaling the victory of Islam and its supremacy not only over Christianity, although that is certainly part of what he is doing, but also over Ataturk’s secularism. Ataturk […]
Islamic State claims responsibility for murder during Sunday mass at Istanbul church
This was initially reported as if it were a targeted hit of the victim. It may have been that, but it appears to have been a jihad attack as well. An update on this story. “Two Masked Attackers Kill 1 in Shooting at Istanbul Church,” by Safak Timur and Emma Bubola, New York Times, January […]
Turkey: Armed men enter Istanbul Catholic church during mass, murder man
The report below portrays this as a targeted killing of the victim. Still, the attackers apparently entered the church with impunity; as Murat Kurum says, “This attack targets our centuries-old law of brotherhood and our will to live together.” That’s a wild exaggeration, given Turkey’s ongoing hostility to religious minorities, but this could indicate a […]
Turkey: Istanbul shopkeeper hangs sign in front of shop: ‘JEWS NOT ALLOWED’
This is another manifestation of the open Jew-hatred, not just opposition to Israel, that we see all over the world. It is noteworthy that this sign would be found in Istanbul, as Islamic antisemitism has made Hitler’s Mein Kampf a perennial bestseller in Turkey and other majority-Muslim countries. “A second-hand bookstore in Istanbul looks like […]
Istanbul: Muslim demonstrators scream ‘Allahu akbar’ and ‘Khaybar’ jihad chant vowing new genocide of Jews
Massive pro-Hamas demonstration in Istanbul The participants are shouting “Khaybar Khaybar ya yahud". It is the first verse of a jihadist chant which references a Muslim massacre of Jews in 628 CE, in the town of Khaybar in northwestern Arabia, now Saudi Arabia. The army of… https://t.co/JAWRiissiJ — Uzay Bulut (@bulutuzay_) October 8, 2023 Translation […]
Turkey: Islamic group calls for art expo’s closure for ‘blasphemy,’ homosexual propaganda
The Leftist/Islamic alliance continues to falter. “Turkey Islamist group calls for art expo’s closure for ‘blasphemy,’ LGBTQ ‘propaganda,’” by Nazlan Ertan, Al-Monitor, June 29, 2023: IZMIR, Turkey — An art exhibition that brings together the works of top Turkish artists in a sumptuous 19th-century building in Istanbul has become the latest flare-up in Turkey’s culture wars, […]
Turkey: Erdogan cracks down on pride parade, arrests more than 100 homosexual activists
The global Leftist-Islamic alliance continues to founder upon the Left’s increasingly open and insistent commitment to sexual deviance and perversion. “Turkey: Erdogan government cracks whip on pride parade, arrests more than 100 LGBTQ++ activists,” OpIndia, June 27, 2023 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): On Sunday, the 25th of June, Istanbul Governor Davut Gul stated […]