{"id":52953,"date":"2012-04-29T06:44:13","date_gmt":"2012-04-29T03:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=52953"},"modified":"2023-07-25T15:02:33","modified_gmt":"2023-07-25T12:02:33","slug":"biden-pushes-leadership-role-for-turkeys-islamist-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2012\/04\/29\/biden-pushes-leadership-role-for-turkeys-islamist-leaders\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden pushes leadership role for Turkey\u2019s Islamist leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday Vice President Joe Biden offered Turkey\u2019s Islamist government a leading role in the Middle East, despite its recent crackdown on dissidents, expansion of Islamic culture and education, and regional conflicts with Greece and Israel.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_52955\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-52955\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-52955\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Palestinians hold a Turkish flag during a Hamas protest against Israel&#39;s interception of Gaza-bound ships near the sea port in Gaza City, Monday, May 31, 2010. Israeli naval commandos on Monday stormed a flotilla of ships carrying aid and hundreds of pro-Palestinian activists to the blockaded Gaza Strip, killing at least 10 passengers in a dramatic predawn raid that set off worldwide condemnation and a diplomatic crisis.(AP Photo\/Khalil Hamra) Original Filename: Mideast_Israel_Palestinians_JRL134.jpg Read more: <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re looking for Turkish leadership in the rest of that entire region,\u201d Biden declared at a fundraiser attended by roughly 200 people from the Turkish and Azerbaijani communities, according to a White House pool report.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a model as to how you can have an Islamic population, an Islamic state and a democracy, something the rest of the region is groping to figure out how to do,\u201d he told the audience, who paid up to $2,500 each to attend the fundraiser.<\/p>\n<p>Since last June Turkey\u2019s Islamist government, led by Recep Erdogan, \u201chas restricted freedom of expression, association, and assembly with laws that allow authorities to jail its critics for many months or years while they stand trial for alleged terrorism offenses on the basis of flimsy evidence,\u201d according to a January report by the left-wing group Human Rights Watch.<\/p>\n<p>The Turkish government\u2019s Islamist policies also clash with Biden\u2019s progressive policies, and with American culture and laws in general.<\/p>\n<p>For example, on April 18 Biden touted the Violence Against Women Act and slammed GOP proposals to upgrade the law.<\/p>\n<p>However, in Turkey, \u201cviolence in the home is endemic, and police and courts regularly fail to protect women who have applied for protection orders under the Family Protection Law [and] reports of spouses and family members killing women rose in 2011,\u201d Human Rights Watch reported.<\/p>\n<p>via Joe Biden | Turkey Leadership Role | Islamist Leaders | The Daily Caller.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday Vice President Joe Biden offered Turkey\u2019s Islamist government a leading role in the Middle East, despite its recent crackdown on dissidents, expansion of Islamic culture and education, and regional conflicts with Greece and Israel. \u201cWe\u2019re looking for Turkish leadership in the rest of that entire region,\u201d Biden declared at a fundraiser attended by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":782328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[515],"class_list":["post-52953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-usa","tag-joe-biden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/782328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}