As mentioned before on this blog, Turkey is attempting to find a way to enter the Middle East war. Their goal is to lead Islam into another Ottoman Empire with Erdogan as Caliph.
Turkey’s NATO role under scrutiny as it moves away from the West and toward Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas
Turkey has an extensive history of supporting the Muslim Brotherhood and its offshoot Hamas, and far beyond. Turkey has collaborated with the worst jihadists, including ISIS. It is a particularly dangerous country, so much that it can be reasonably concluded that NATO would be reckless to continue to include it as a member. It should have long ago been ejected as a NATO member.
Algemeiner gave an update on Turkey’s most recent activity in promoting Hamas:
This week, Turkish intelligence chief Ibrahim Kalın met in Ankara with Khalil Al-Khaya, a senior Hamas negotiator, and the terrorist group’s political bureau delegation to discuss prospects for advancing the second phase of the Gaza ceasefire — marking the second such meeting in under two weeks.
Last week, Kalın also met with senior Hamas leaders in Istanbul, underscoring Turkey’s ongoing diplomatic engagement with the Islamist group.
Notably absent from both meetings’ public summaries was any mention of Hamas’s disarmament — a key condition of the US-backed peace plan, which the terrorist group continues to reject, further complicating ceasefire efforts.
Turkey’s NATO role under scrutiny amid new report on Hamas, Muslim Brotherhood ties
by Efrat Lachter, Fox News, April 1, 2026:
A new report is raising concerns about Turkey’s role in the Middle East, arguing that under President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the country has moved away from its traditional Western alignment and toward deeper engagement with Islamist movements, including the Muslim Brotherhood.
The Foundation for Defense of Democracies report, led by senior fellow Sinan Ciddi and titled “Islamist Domination of Turkey: A Forward Base for Muslim Brotherhood-Aligned Jihadism,” argues that Turkey has ties to Hamas — the U.S.-designated terrorist group responsible for the Oct. 7 massacre — as well as to the Muslim Brotherhood — an Islamist movement whose affiliates have recently been designated as terrorist organizations by the United States — placing Turkey’s policies under renewed scrutiny as it prepares to host a NATO summit.
Ciddi told Fox News Digital the shift reflects a broader transformation in how Turkey defines threats.
“What we have is Turkey has completely rewritten the rules of how you interpret what a jihadist terrorist entity may be,” Ciddi said. “Erdoğan has reinvented what is interpreted as a terrorist entity … groups such as Hamas or al-Nusra fall into line with his pan-Islamist view of the world.”..
…A central focus of the report is Turkey’s relationship with Hamas, which the United States designates as a terrorist organization, and yet Hamas expanded its presence in Turkey after 2011, establishing offices and networks inside the country…,
The Underreporting of the Iranian Regime’s Crimes
This past week offered more examples of the Iranian regime’s criminal behavior. But they have not received the attention they deserved. Meanwhile much of the world’s media chooses to focus on Israel’s nonexistent crimes. More on this phenomenon can be found here:
Too Many in the West Still Look Away — Even as Iran Further Brutalizes Its Own People
by Micha Danzig, Algemeiner, March 31, 2026:
Start with three facts from this past week.
Not rumors. Not slogans. Not social media noise.
Facts — reported in mainstream outlets, documented by international human rights bodies, and, in part, reflected in the regime’s own conduct and admissions.
First, a 19-year-old wrestler — Navid Afkari — was executed by the Iranian regime after a trial widely condemned by international observers. Hung. Killed. His crime: protesting.
Second, officials tied to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) advancing frameworks where children as young as 12 can be integrated into war-support roles — patrols, logistics, internal enforcement. Not speculation. Not anonymous leaks. Positions reflected in both external reporting and Iranian media.
Third, multiple independent investigations — and mainstream media reports — documenting the systematic use of rape and sexual violence by the IRGC and Basij against detainees, particularly protesters, as a tool of repression.
Stop there.
You don’t need embellishment. You don’t need a fourth example. You don’t need a roundtable parsing “context.” What you need is to understand what kind of regime produces all three of these facts consistently, predictably, and without apology.
Because in the Islamic Republic of Iran, these are not aberrations. They are not excesses at the margins of an otherwise functioning system. They are the system.
Authoritarian systems do not need to announce what they are. They demonstrate it. Not in their slogans — which are often framed, for many Western audiences, in the language of justice and resistance — but in what they do to people, particularly their own citizens.
For 47+ years under this Iranian regime, the pattern is direct and repeatable. That is not hyperbole or metaphor. It is a description of how the Iranian regime operates.
And yet — and this is where the second scandal should begin — this regime still receives the benefit of the doubt, if not outright support, in significant parts of Western discourse.
Watch almost any show on MSNBC or CNN and you can hear it happen in real time.
The language shifts. It hedges. Or it flips into outright advocacy.
Iran becomes “complicated.”
The regime becomes “reactive.”
We are asked to believe that the Islamic Republic is not itself aggressive, but is merely “reacting” to those who would harm it — the United States, Israel, and the Gulf Arab states that host American bases. It does not oppress its own people, but only “reacts” to street protests inside, or military attacks from outside, that would bring the regime down.
The willingness of large numbers of people in the West to accept the Iranian narrative, to ignore the Islamic republic’s crimes against its own people and its warmongering throughout the Middle East, to continue to see Israel as the threat to peace and stability in the Middle East, will someday be written about as we now write about those who during the 1930s made excuses for the Nazi regime and believed it best to throw Czechoslovakia to the wolves at Munich in order to obtain “peace in our time,” or about those who accepted Soviet propaganda about the building of a brave new communist world that would bring prosperity and economic equality, even as millions died in manmade famines such as the Holodomor in the Ukraine, and more millions were executed or condemned to slow deaths in the labor camps in Siberia.
In Iran, 36,500 people were killed, and hundreds of thousands wounded, by the authorities for the crime of participating in unarmed protests last January. Executions continue for anyone found to have taken part in protests or for having praised them online. Twelve-year-olds are now being encouraged to take on war-support roles, including logistics, patrols, and internal enforcement of the government’s rules. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Basij routinely use rape as a weapon of oppression, to terrify women and girls who take part in protests. But none of these atrocities have received the attention in the world’s media that they deserve. The media instead focuses on Israel’s strikes on what are routinely and wrongly described as “civilian buildings,” which turn out to be IRGC command-and-control centers, ballistic missile stores, missile factories, nuclear facilities, and Basij barracks.
Just one question about the misreporting and underreporting of events in Iran: why?
Syria: Massive crowds scream ‘All of Syria is Hamas. Let’s attack the Jews.’
It is clearer by the day that Ahmed al-Sharaa is still an Islamic jihadi, and that his supporters know that and approve of it. So how long will Trump continue to support him?
‘Attack the Jews’: Syrians chant Jihad against Israel in mass protests
by Yulia Pobegailova, i24News, April 3, 2026:
Thousands of Syrians have taken to the streets across the country since Tuesday, with mass rallies featuring open calls for “jihad” against Israel.
The demonstrations erupted after Israel’s parliament passed a law on Monday mandating the death penalty for Palestinians convicted of murdering Israelis in terror attacks.
Videos circulating online show protests in at least 12 major Syrian cities. Demonstrators waved Syrian and Palestinian flags alongside Hamas and Islamist banners, voiced support for Palestinian security prisoners held in Israel, and openly backed Hamas.
Chants captured on video included:
“O Abu Obeida, we pledge allegiance to you openly,” referring to Hamas’ military spokesman, and
“They say Hamas is terrorist — all of Syria is Hamas,” and
“Let’s attack the Jews.”
In some cases, protesters were heard chanting:
“O Jolani, our beloved — bomb, strike Tel Aviv,” invoking Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa’s nom de guerre from his Al-Qaeda days.
Crowds were also seen burning Israeli flags and chanting:
“We brought down Assad — now it’s Israel’s turn.”
In one widely circulated clip, a member of Syria’s General Security Service forces declared: “Open the border for us and we will be in Gaza in less than 10 minutes.”
According to footage shared on social media, some government-linked figures also joined the demonstrations, including Syrian Interior Ministry spokesperson Nour al-Din al-Baba and security forces affiliated with the Defense Ministry, chanting Islamist slogans alongside protesters….
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