Special to WorldTribune.com By Ed Koch The chickens are coming home to roost in the Middle East. The experts who supported the removal of President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt, e.g., The New York Times’ Tom Friedman and many others, are perhaps now wondering if they were right to do so. Hosni Mubarak was certainly an […]
Special to WorldTribune.com ANKARA — Turkey has arrested the highest level military official on charges of plotting against the Islamic government of Prime Minister Recep Erdogan. Former Chief of Staff Gen. Ilker Basbug was imprisoned as part of the latest crackdown on secular opponents of the Erdogan government. Erdogan, deemed a close friend of U.S. […]
