Just a day after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan bragged about the defeat of the Greeks by the Turkish army in 1923 in Asia Minor, a book authored by a pro-Erdogan historian and claiming the transformation of the Orthodox Christian Cathedral Hagia Sofia into a museum in 1935 was the result of American diplomats to prevent the historic Church from being turned into a Mosque and did not take place, is fueling extreme Islamist rhetoric in the country.

A Turkish banker, sanctions and Iran − the plot thickens as the NYPD arrests an executive suspected of helping transfer funds to Iran when sanctions were firmly in place.

The “New Turkey Strategic Research Center” (Yeni Turkiye Stratejik Arastirmalar Merkezi) published a 1450-pages book dedicated to what is widely accepted as the “Holy Oath” of the Turkish people, the “National Agreement” (Misak-ı Millî).