Erdogan is No Friend

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. President Obama hosts this week a man he has described as one of his closest friends among foreign leaders. That's troubling since Turkish Prime Minister Recep Erdogan is a man who is no friend of America by any reasonable definition. Perhaps, Erdogan is so admired because he has achieved in Turkey what Mr. Obama might call "the fundamental transformation" of his country.  In fact, under Erdogan, Turkey has ceased to be the secular Muslim nation it was for over seventy years.  It is, instead, an increasingly  Islamicized state - repressing its own people and hostile to Israel and our interests in its region, and beyond. This visit is an opportunity to express our disapproval of these trends.  Unfortunately, Mr. Obama will likely instead encourage his friend to think America approves of them. This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.  Learn more at SecureFreedom.org.