Turkey: Legitimizing Extremist Violence
Turkey: Legitimizing Extremist Violence By Burak Bekdil Originally Published by the Gatestone Institute. In its early years (2002-2010), many Western leaders generously hailed Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's governance with biased euphemisms such as "post-modern Islamism" or "moderate Islamism." In this view, Turkish Islamism and Erdoğan deserved every support Western…