The Kurdish Fight is Humanity’s Fight

In 1939, when the Nazis rolled into Poland, my aunt, whose name I carry, was forced to strip naked and dig a hole, into which she and the other members of her village were summarily mowed down.
Will Turkish Invasion of Syria Bring About Pre-Messianic Conflict With Russia?

Turkey launched a military incursion into neighboring Syria over the weekend, bringing Russian and Turkish soldiers into closer proximity in an already volatile region, making a 200-year-old prophecy of pre-Messianic conflict between Russia and Turkey appear to be closer than ever before.
Turkey Launches Major Campaign Against Kurdish Fighters in Northern Syria

The operation began as an air campaign on Saturday and expanded into a ground offensive on Sunday.
Turkey, the Arab World is Just Not That into You

He runs around in a fake fire extinguisher’s outfit, holding a silly hose in his hands and knocking on neighbors’ doors to put out the fire in their homes. “Go away,” his neighbors keep telling him.
Turkish Professor Claims Koran Flood Story Tells of Muslim Noah Calling Son on Cell-Phone

A Turkish professor has come up with an amazing theory about Biblical Noah based on his understanding of the story as related in the Koran: during the storm, conversation was impossible due to the thunder and lightning so Noah kept in touch with his sons via cellular phone.
The Blue-Eyed Poster Girl of Palestinian Propaganda

Ahed Tamimi’s success in the Western public opinion stems from the fact that she doesn’t look like a typical Muslim or Palestinian woman; she generates sympathy because she looks like the daughter of the white family next door. As long as she delivers the goods, the clear racist aspect in this ability to identify with her doesn’t really matter.
Jerusalem Deals in Reality

The neighborhood where I live, on the seam line dividing Jew and Arab in Jerusalem, can be a useful place to take the temperature of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Turkey: Laundering Billions for Iran

In the text above replace the words “in the Arab world” with “Turkey,” and delete the word “Iran” in the preceding line, and one will get a short paragraph “Explaining Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan: A Psychological Profile.”
Erdogan: No Moderate Islam

The Trump administration has two options: It can either deal with the Turkey it has or the Turkey it wished it had.
Europe’s Migrant Crisis: Millions Still to Come

“African exodus of biblical proportions impossible to stop”