... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him...
on Wednesday launched one of his strongest attacks yet against Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
(IS) jihadists, saying the group was a "virus" working to destroy the Moslem community.
Ankara has been repeatedly criticized in recent months for not doing enough to halt the advance of IS to its borders, but Erdogan said after meeting Iraqi President Fuad Masum that the group had to be confronted.
The IS group "is an important virus that is working to divide and destroy the ummah," Erdogan told news hounds in televised comments, using the term for the community of Moslems.
He said other groups had followed the same path but that IS had proved more adept and serious in using its resources.
"An international strategy is essential to drain this swamp. Even if Daesh is destroyed something will emerge under a different name," said Erdogan, using a pejorative Arabic acronym to refer to IS.
"Where do its weapons and financing come from? We need to focus on this," Erdogan said.
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
had itself been accused of aiding IS in the early stages of its existence as a useful ally in the fight against Syrian
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
Horror of Homs...
, who Erdogan wants to see ousted.
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