Erdogan’s Academics: Middle East Studies Scholars Shill for a Tyrant

Erdogan with scholars (Source: Middle East Forum)

BY A.J. CASCHETTA, The Daily Caller

In the days after the July coup attempt against his regime, Turkey’s tyrant Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused a group of scholars attending a conference in Istanbul of conspiring against him and directing the plot. After his widespread paranoid purge of Turkish academia, it seems Erdogan has now found a group of scholars he can live with.

Erdogan’s lackeys in the Turkish press helped him whip up a frenzy against Turkish professoriate, and now his lackeys in the Turkish professoriate who survived the purge are propping up his regime. A conference held in Istanbul on October 8-9, titled “Envisioning a Post-crisis Regional Order in the Sharq Region,â€