The Pastor Shining the Truth on Turkey to the President

The persecution of Christians is part and parcel of the Erdogan regime’s repression of civil rights and replacement of democracy with Islamist repression.

by Caroline Glick
August 23, 2018

For the better part of the past 15 years since Erdogan and his Islamist AJP party were first elected in December 2002, Turkey watchers in the US – like here at TTP – have warned that US leaders and policymakers that Erdogan is an Islamist revolutionary who intends to transform Turkey into a radical Islamic state.

For years, observers have watched and warned as Turkey cozied up to Iran, Hezbollah, and Hamas. They warned as Erdogan permitted Turkey to serve as ISIS’s mobilization base and main economic market for Syrian oil.

They warned as Erdogan destroyed Turkey’s democratic institutions one by one. He took over the judiciary, the civil service, the education system and finally the Turkish military.

He took over the Turkish media and banking system. By this year’s election, when Erdogan was granted dictatorial powers by the electorate, Turkey was already a country transformed.

Its air force exercises with the Chinese, its purchase of Russia’s S-400 anti-air…