Turkey’s Islamists can’t get enough of Lindsay Lohan
US celebrity Lindsay Lohan has become an unlikely promoter of Turkey.
US-Turkish relations can be tepid at the best of times, but an unlikely ambassador may be rushing to the rescue: Lindsay Lohan.
Over the past week, images of the American actress, singer and model visiting Syrian refugee camps — cradling babies and sporting an Islamic-style headscarf — have been splashed across the pages of pro-government media outlets. Lohan's compatriot Angelina Jolie has visited the same refugee camps along the Syrian border several times, but she never elicited the gushing enthusiasm afforded Lohan.
Why the discrepancy? Because Lohan has waded into Turkish politics in a big way, spouting, among other things, one of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s worthier mantras: “The world is bigger than five.”
For Lohan's American fans who need help deciphering Erdogan's shorthand, it means the permanent membership of the UN Security Council should be expanded beyond its current five states, ostensibly to include Turkey. The fate of millions of people, Lohan solemnly observed in an interview with the pro-Erdogan ATV channel, should not be decided by five countries.
