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Turkey’s long, slow pivot to the dark side
- Some hardline conservatives in America are already over Turkey.
“Turkey is effectively an ally no more,” argues Frank Gaffney, president and CEO of the right wing Center for Security Policy. “I think we have been divorced by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan who seeks to become the leader of a new Ottoman caliphate.”
- Jamie McIntyre
- Washington Examiner
It’s a harsh assessment for a country that has been a NATO member for 66 years, and which had been considered a model secular Islamic state whose democratic institutions would qualify it for membership in the…
But Turkey under…