Biden Apologizes to Islamist Leader of Turkey for Linking Him to ISIS
October 4, 2014 by 5 Comments
Daniel
Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is a
New York writer focusing on radical Islam. He is completing a book on
the international challenges America faces in the 21st century.
Under the Islamist AKP, Turkey has become a state sponsor of terror. Its links to ISIS are the worst kept secret in the region as ISIS fighters treat Turkey as a gateway to the ISIS Jihad.
But Biden made the mistake of quoting Erdogan and had to apologize for it.
Vice President Biden on Saturday apologized to Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for saying the Turkish leader admitted his country made mistakes by allowing foreign fighters to cross into Syria.That’s what they call plausible deniability. But it’s telling that Biden had to apologize to Erdogan, a murderous thug who casually kills his own people and talks about ethnically cleansing Armenians.
Biden spoke directly to Erdogan to “clarify” comments made on Thursday at Harvard University and apologized for “any implication” that Turkey or other allies had intentionally supplied or helped in the growth of the Islamic State or other extremists groups in Syria, the White House said.
Erdogan denied making such remarks and said Biden would become “history to me” over the comments at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, in Cambridge, Mass., unless he fixed the situation.
Biden on Thursday also described Erdogan as “an old friend” but suggested he said privately: “You were right. We let too many people through.”
Erdogan also said: “I have never said to (Biden) that we had made a mistake, never. If he did say this…, then he has to apologize to us.
“Foreign fighters have never entered Syria from our country. They may come to our country as tourists and cross into Syria, but no one can say that they cross in with their arms.”
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