To you guys who've been with me for a few years, this stuff in Front Page about the Turkish PM is old news. Turkish PM Erdogan has been an Islamic Extremist since the 70's when his long time friend, Necmettin Erbakan, first took power (with 22% of the vote). He promptly invited terrorists to set up madrassas there. He was a raving anti-American as well as a full blown friend of Islamic Jihad. I penned this back in March of 2003

TURKEY AIN'T OUR FRIEND-----Duuuuuhhhh

The only blunder of the war could be very serious indeed

The unreadiness of our military for this Turkish "betrayal" (refusal to let us invade Iraq from the north) is inexcusable. The current leader of Turkey, Necmettin Erbakan (Erdogan's best best friend since college days), is well known as a Muslim firebrand. When Erbakan was last leading the country he did the following: signed agreements with terrorist Lybia and Iran, established a religious school system to turn out Islamic radicals, had plans to build mosques with public monies, infiltrated the government with hard line Muslim Fundamentalists, allowed the Iranian ambassador to Turkey to call on Turkish young people to take up arms against the United States; and other less odious practices.

He and his party are no friends of the United States and could well be moving Turkey from a secular state to an Islamic state. Turkey has been flexing its muscles throughout the middle east for years and was once the seat of The Ottoman Empire.

They fear the Kurds who have migrated in great numbers into many cities and are a majority in the Southern area. It can never be forgotten that the Kurds were the instruments of the Turks in the genocidal slaughter of one million Armenians in the early 20's. They don't like each other and if the Kurds ever "ratted the Turks out about the Armenian genocide" Turkey would be liable for billions in reparations.

Turkey is almost an Islamic state right now and is on the northern border with Iraq, and the Kurds. Only the hope of joining the EU keeps things in line.