Turkey’s increasingly authoritarian president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has strongly criticized Austria’s recent decision to close mosques and expel Turkish-funded imams, calling the move “anti-Islamic.”
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
The result of this incitement campaign is a radicalization of Muslim communities across Europe.
On Monday, NATO ally Turkey withdrew its ambassador from Washington. The severe step is meant to punish the U.S. for opening an embassy in Jerusalem on Monday.
There was a depressing familiarity both to Hamas’s suicide protest operation along Gaza’s border with Israel this week and to Israel’s response to it.
Turkey has also recalled its ambassadors to Israel and the United States over recent escalations in Gaza.
