This is an increasingly common attitude in Turkey. Meanwhile, the Western political and media establishment has worked for years to stigmatize, demonize, and marginalize any opposition to jihad violence and Sharia oppression of women and others. “Western civilization must also be saved from the Western threat!,” by Yusuf Kaplan, Yeni Safak, April 13, 2021: The […]
Leading Turkish Journalist: Trump Undone by Jewish Conspiracy and Coup
“A Trumpist coup or coup against Trump?,” was the headline to the article by Yusuf Kaplan, a leading Turkish journalist, that appeared in the newpaper Yeni Safak, which is President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s house organ, on January 10, 2021. A brief previous Jihad Watch report on Kaplan’s conspiracy theorizing is here. Kaplan’s column is here. […]
Turkey: Pro-Erdogan paper says Trump was ‘deposed by Jewish lords who own the established order’
This is the sort of thing one would expect to read in Der Stürmer, but Yeni Safak is a strong exponent of political Islam, and the Jews in the Qur’an are called the strongest of all people in enmity toward the Muslims (5:82); they fabricate things and falsely ascribe them to Allah (2:79; 3:75, 3:181); […]