Word: erdogan
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...being searched. Now Turkish security forces, known for their no-nonsense methods, will make it difficult for militants who are thought to have used Turkey as a transfer point for personnel and money flowing between Europe and the Middle East. The Islamist-leaning party of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is under intense pressure from Turkey's political opposition and secular establishment to prove it can get tough on terrorists. "Turkey," he said, "will be like a fist...
...Those who bloodied this holy day and massacred innocent people will account for it in both worlds. They will be damned until eternity." RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN, Prime Minister of Turkey, condemning the bombings of the British consulate and a British bank in Istanbul that killed 29 people...
...Those who bloodied this holy day and massacred innocent people will account for it in both worlds. They will be damned until eternity." Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Prime Minister of Turkey, on the two bombings in Istanbul last week that killed at least...
...even those among the citizenry broadly sympathetic to al-Qaeda's critique of U.S. policy will be alienated by the bloodletting of innocents on their own streets, and turn against the extremists. Those who "massacred innocent people will account for it in both worlds," said Turkish prime minister Recip Erdogan in response to the bombings. "They will be damned until eternity." Erdogan's own ruling party has its roots in Turkey's moderate Islamist movement. But the reaction to jihadi suicide attacks in Iraq raises a cautionary flag: Even when most of the victims are innocent Iraqis, many ordinary Iraqis...
...about Turkey's violent suppression of Kurdish separatism within Turkey's borders. Turkey, which is concerned that a move toward independence by Iraq's Kurds would inflame the aspirations of its Kurdish minority, previously threatened to block such a move by force if necessary. Indeed, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan sold the deployment to skeptical Turks by arguing that a presence in Iraq would enable Ankara to keep an eye on Kurdish mischief. And a Turkish minister tells TIME that during an emotionally charged closed session of parliament, Erdogan warned ministers, "The region is being shaped anew; we need...