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Turkey could be America’s most important regional ally, above Iraq, even above Israel, if both sides manage the relationship correctly.


  • A ‘New Israel’… in eastern Texas?

    A ‘New Israel’… in eastern Texas?

    Long-shot congressional candidate Allan Levene has a uniquely improbable two-state solution By Anthony Weiss JTA — With the Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations floundering, it may, perhaps, […]

  • Turkey pressures US over Saylorsburg Muslim cleric

    Turkey pressures US over Saylorsburg Muslim cleric

    By Jenna Ebersole Pocono Record Writer An international brouhaha brewing between the United States and Turkey focuses on an infamous occupant of a compound in […]

  • Let Mr. Erdogan Fight His Own Battles

    Let Mr. Erdogan Fight His Own Battles

    By THE EDITORIAL BOARD Not long ago, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey and Fethullah Gulen, a Turkish preacher in Pennsylvania, were the best […]

  • MEN IN MASQUERADE

    MEN IN MASQUERADE

    Turkish people! What kind of a social conscience do you have? To silently sit while events of Nazi proportions are being done to the Syrian people by your government? It seems inconceivable that you can fill the streets for Fenerbahçe football but not even mumble a care about what your tax money is doing to…

  • UNITED WE WEEP, DIVIDED WE SLEEP

    UNITED WE WEEP, DIVIDED WE SLEEP

    So who will care? Care enough to act, to really act? To stand up and say that this is enough. That the people will no longer be governed by a corrupt political process. Nor by numbskull, repetitive political opposition parties nor by America’s CIA gangsters? Is that too much to ask?

  • Turkey is again with Erdogan

    Turkey is again with Erdogan

    The Turkish government banned YouTube last week, after Ankara made the same with Twitter. According to the western media  there are more than 10 million Turkish users […]