Erdogan’s True Colors

Turkey’s prime minister is said to be President Obama’s favorite foreign leader and he portrays Recep Erdogan’s increasingly authoritarian Islamist regime as a model to be emulated elsewhere in the Muslim world. So, it’s a bit jarring when Erdogan shows his true colors.  For example, he recently equated Zionism with Naziism and called it a “crime against humanity.”  The Obama administration is “shocked, shocked” that their Islamist friend would utter such anti-Semitic tripe. But this is just the latest sign of Turkey’s transformation under the Erdogan government from Israel’s ally to its enemy. We must stop giving the Turkish regime a pass – let alone political legitimacy, access to sensitive military technology and treatment as a NATO ally – to say nothing of promoting its brand of Islamism as a model for any other country.