Steven Cook, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations with a reputation for expertise on Turkey and Egypt, wrote an article for Politico Aug. 5 headlined, “What a Turkey! Has the Turkish leader lost his head?” The article discussed the alleged anti-Semitism of the Turkish prime minister, currently running for the presidency.
Cook’s article begins, “If Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan were an American politician, he would be an excellent candidate for one of Chris Cillizza’s 'Worst Week in Washington' features. First, on Friday, July 19, a day after the State Department spokesperson criticized him for his frequent invocation of the Nazis to describe Israel’s behavior, Erdogan asked, 'What do Americans know about Hitler?' Given that almost 200,000 young Americans died fighting in Europe during WWII, quite a lot, actually.”
