The internal reality of Turkey does not matter very much to the external hostile agenda. They will use anything and everything to brand Erdogan as a mad Islamist dictator. Any security response by the Turkish government in the aftermath of the coup attempt, to identify and neutralize any conspiratorial threat to the nation’s stability will…
Author: Shahid Bolsen
Shahid Bolsen is the founder of the Middle Nation Movement.
In the late 1980s, bearded men would be stopped by police walkin…
In the late 1980s, bearded men would be stopped by police walking in the Grand Bazzar area of Istanbul, and the policeman would burn his beard with a cigarette lighter. As late as the year 2000 a woman Member of Parliament in Turkey was booed and had garbage flung at her when she turned up…