Erdoğan’s Turkey and Iranian Intelligence

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September 23, 2014 by JImbo

Don’t expect much help from Turkey. Those who thought the election of Islamist Recep Erdogan was a fluke were sorely mistaken. While the Turkish people and military don’t like Iran or Terrorists, the leadership us increasingly friendly to them. Kind of like our President… One of Erdogans new best friends… Hmmmm.

The XX Committee

Western concerns have mounted in recent years as Turkey, once a NATO stalwart, has drifted into an increasingly Islamist orientation, in both foreign and domestic policy, under the leadership of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who has been prime minister since 2003 and was just elected Turkey’s president. His ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has become increasingly repressive at home, with scores of jailed journalists and other secularists, many of them top military officers, who have run afoul of the AKP and its Islamist policies. Yet whatever misgivings exist about Ankara’s atmosphere of domestic repression, it’s Erdoğan’s worrying tendencies in foreign policy — a deliberate strategic turn away from the West combined with obvious affection for revolutionary Iran — that have led to serious concerns in NATO and beyond.

The transformation of Turkey, a frontline state which possesses the second-largest army in the Atlantic Alliance, into something like a frenemy on a…

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