- Burak Bekdil
- Paper No. 610
About the same proportion of Turks view the US (72%) and ISIS (73%) as a threat to their country. Thatโs weird. Erdoฤanโs generation of Islamists were anti-American largely because of the Arab-Israeli dispute โ although they feared Soviet communism more than American imperialism. Future generations of Turkish Islamists will hate America even more because they will have gone through long years of anti-American indoctrination by a beloved leader and his powerful propaganda machine.