- Lt. Col. (res.) Dr. Mordechai Kedar
- Paper No. 1772
ISIS was so successful in 2014 in part because President Recep Tayyip Erdoฤan of Turkey is a vocal supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood. Any distance Erdoฤan has placed between himself and ISIS is attributable to pressure from Russia, the US, and Europe, not to his rejection of the groupโs Islamist ideology.