Erdogan’s Self-Righteous Blast on Egypt
The Turkish prime minister’s remarks on Egypt are geared toward Turkish domestic politics.
Although Egyptians are bearing the brunt of the latest bloody events in Egypt, Turkey appears to be the only country reacting to these events as if it were all happening within its own borders. The Turkish reaction is driven, however, by a self-righteous political narrative that clearly has much more to do with developments in Turkey than in Egypt.
The inevitable buzzword in all this is “Western hypocrisy,” and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is the principle cheerleader again. It is noteworthy, however, that Erdogan and his supporters rarely, if at all, mention Islamic powers whose inaction in the face of events in Egypt matches that of the West. There is hardly any open condemnation by government circles of Saudi Arabia or Iran’s stance in this regard, for example.
