Excellent analysis, plus some very enlightening links.

"Yilmazlar Construction Group, a Turkish builder with operations in Israel, plans to sue Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan for hurting its business by increasing political tensions between the two countries.

"Ahmedido Domingo (aka Ahmadinejad), Erdogano Pavarotti (aka Erdogan) and Assad Carreras (aka Bashar Assad) singing about the benefits of terrorism.

In 1974, when Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan was president of the Istanbul youth group of the MSP (the Islamist National Salvation Party), he wrote, directed, and starred in a play called Mas-Kom-Ya, which addressed subversive elements in Turkish society: masons, communist …

Two days ago, I read something in the newspapers that really shocked me. It was a statement from Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in which he defended the planned visit of Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir to Turkey.

"Turkey's prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has become his country's first head of government to acknowledge publicly that his country displayed a "fascist approach" in dealing with its minorities in the past, when Christians and Jews fled abroad after coming under pr …

"ANKARA - Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan rejected attempts to call Turkey the representative of moderate Islam. "It is unacceptable for us to agree with such a definition. Turkey has never been a country to represent such a concept.

"At a weekend meeting in Istanbul, 200 religious scholars and clerics met senior Hamas officials to plot a new jihad centred on Gaza. "The choice of Turkey was significant. Arab hardliners were keen to put aside historic differences with the Turks.

Turkey has been unique in the Middle East for its robust relations with Israel.

"Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan stalked off the stage at the World Economic Forum, red-faced after verbally sparring with Israeli President Shimon Peres over the fighting in Gaza.

"Turkey is facing a domestic political crisis that not only threatens the country's internal stability but could weaken its ties to the West and exacerbate instability in the Middle East.

Mr. Erdogan's impatience with the rule of law and his dictatorial tendencies make him appear less an aggrieved democrat, and more a protégé of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin – a man whom Western officials now acknowledge to be a dictator.