Turkey's anti-Gulen crackdown ripples far and wide
The sultan has spoken, but narrow still is his sway. | [AlAhram] Barely 12 hours after a failed coup in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
, Somalia's cabinet met in Mogadishu to consider a request from Ankara to shut down two schools and a hospital linked to Fethullah Gulen, the Moslem holy man Turkey blames for the attempted putsch.
Such is Turkey's sway in the Horn of Africa nation, where it has spearheaded international reconstruction efforts after decades of war and instability, it was not a difficult decision.
Posted by: trailing wife 2016-07-31 |