Erdoğan’s Repression Continues; Why is Georgetown Employing His Spokesman?

Turkish president Erdoğan’s crackdown on innocent Turks, including thousands of professors, continues. Yet his chief spokesman and lackey, İbrahim Kalin, remains a senior fellow at Georgetown University’s Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding. If Georgetown lacks the integrity to condemn tyranny, could it at least not employ key members of Erdoğan’s regime?

Winfield Myers is managing editor of the Middle East Forum and director of its Campus Watch project, which reviews and critiques Middle East studies in North American universities. He has taught world history and other topics at the University of Michigan, the University of Georgia, Tulane, and Xavier University of Louisiana. He was previously managing editor of The American Enterprise magazine and CEO of Democracy Project, Inc., which he co-founded. Mr. Myers has served as senior editor and communications director at the Intercollegiate Studies Institute and is principal author and editor of a college guide, Choosing the Right College (1998, 2001). He was educated at the University of Georgia, Tulane, and the University of Michigan.
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