By Daniel Steinvorth in Istanbul/Spiegel Online
* If you had any illusions that Erdogan’s hissy fit with Shimon Peres in Davos would somehow backfire  you were wrong. Here is proof that stoopid, bigotet and hypocritical behavior actually gets you more prestige  in the world of Muselmanics:
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan stormed off stage at the recent World Economic Forum in Davos, earning him praise throughout the Islamic world. Is Ankara moving away from its Western course in favor of courting Muslim nations?
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AFPPalestinian Hamas supporters hold pictures of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan during a rally in Beirut.
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There are roles that the Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan commands with flying colors. There is the Erdogan who is filled with concern for his people, a man who plays the role of the forgiving father. This Erdogan recently visited a repentant barber who had been sentenced to death for blasphemy in Saudi Arabia and was eventually pardoned. The prime minister picked up the man’s young son and gave him a toy car.
And then there is the Erdogan who plays the protective brother. He is a man who takes his people by the hand and gives it new direction in difficult times. That was the Erdogan who flew to Germany last year after nine Turkish immigrants had died in a house fire in the southern city of Ludwigshafen. Speaking to 18,000 Turks in Cologne, Erdogan warned them against “assimilation,” calling it a “crime against humanity.”
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