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Tuesday, 26 July 2016

The parallels between El Sisi and Erdogan -Washington Post

‘A troubling turn for US relations in the Muslim world’: Jackson Diehl, the Washington Post Deputy Editorial Page Editor, published an op-ed on Sunday commenting on what he views as the parallels between President Abdel Fattah El Sisi and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, including their strained relations with US President Barack Obama. “As Obama prepares to leave office, Turkey and Egypt are emerging as twin models for a 21st-century Muslim authoritarianism, one Islamist and one secular. Their regimes are far more repressive than they were in 2009 and far less open to liberal ideas. But their most distinguishing feature, compared with a decade ago, is their anti-Americanism… They not only embrace wild anti-American conspiracy theories, but articulate them in public. They seed the media they control with propaganda that makes Vladimir Putin’s anti-US diatribes look tame.”

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