I have come to Turkey at a time when discussions of a “shift in the axis” of Turkey’s foreign policy have reached their peak. The term “axis shift” was coined by some members of the mainstream Turkish media a couple of years ago to imply that Turkey was moving away from the secular West toward the Muslim Middle East. This term has been revived recently after the flotilla incident with Israel, Turkey’s “no” vote to UN Security Council’s sanctions against Iran’s nuclear program, and the 2nd Turkish-Arab Economic Forum.
Posts Tagged ‘Thomas Friedman’
December 21st, 2009
Thomas Friedman taken to task
posted by Charles GelmanAt the Huffington Post John O. Voll and John Esposito rebut in no uncertain terms Thomas L. Friedman’s most recent New York Times op-ed, which misleadingly claimed broad Muslim support for acts of political violence.
December 17th, 2009
An Islamic civil war?
posted by Charles GelmanIn his op-ed piece in yesterday’s New York Times, Thomas Friedman made a number of astute remarks about the current state of international jihadism and the construction, in American public discourse, of the Muslim qua object. Nevertheless, he still managed to throw good sense to the wind, suggesting that what’s really needed is an intra-Islamic civil war.
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