Mustafa Akyol is a Turkish journalist, author, and political commentator known for his writing on Islam, liberalism, and Turkish politics. He is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and a regular opinion contributor to international publications including the New York Times. He contributed articles to The Weekly Standard in 2004–2005 covering Turkish politics, anti-Americanism, and U.S.-Turkey relations.
AL QAEDA'S STATED GOAL--to reestablish the caliphate, the political leadership of worldwide Islam embodied first in the successors of the Prophet Muhammad and most recently in the four-century rule of the Ottoman dynasty--is pure, ahistorical fantasy. One way to appreciate this is to revisit the…
LONGTIME ALLIES OF THE UNITED States, the Turks have been sympathetic to American values for decades. Nevertheless, a new BBC World Service poll of 21 countries shows Turkey to be the least friendly to America, especially the current administration. Eighty-two percent of Turks said they found…
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