"It is deeply disappointing to see what has become of Turkey in the last few years. Not long ago, it was the envy of Muslim-majority countries: a viable candidate for the European Union on its path to becoming a functioning democracy that upholds universal human rights, gender equality, the rule of law and the rights of Kurdish and non-Muslim citizens. This historic opportunity now appears to have been squandered as Turkey’s ruling party, known as the A.K.P., reverses that progress and clamps down on civil society, media, the judiciary and free enterprise.
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Turkey has now reached a point where democracy and human rights have almost been shelved."
Mr. Fethulla forgets to mention that Turkey now serves as a headquarters for Hamas.
Elsewhere in the news today, we are told that Zacaria Moussaoui is claiming that members of the Saudi royal family supported al-Qaeda. But why should that have prevented Obama from visiting Saudi Arabia last week, while avoiding Israel, which is just a hop, skip and a jump away from Riyadh?
Poor G-d. He allows the world stage to become the most hideous melodrama, a film noir, a surreal epic with scenes of the most graphic violence, that most of the players would finally recognize the inverted ethical nature of the broader narrative and the omniscient Author's Will, but no matter how absurd it becomes, too many still see the plot but have no idea who the protagonists, who the antagonist nor that we are rapidly approaching an ugly climax.
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