Ibrahim Kalin: Erdoğan’s U.S.-Trained Enforcer

Ibrahim Kalin

Ibrahim Kalin is a lamentable (but predictable) expression of the American Middle East studies establishment’s decades-long embrace of Islamist doctrines and propaganda. A U.S.-trained specialist in Islam and the Middle East, Kalin is the unabashed official apologist for Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, a textbook Islamist who is currently crushing all domestic dissent in the aftermath of the failed coup of July 15. Writing for Campus Watch, journalist Stephen Schwartz exposes Kalin’s shameful actions at the Independent Journal Review:

A “weaponized academic” trained in the U.S. has risen to become Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s “deputy undersecretary and senior advisor,” yet another servant for Islamist ideology produced by the American Middle East studies industry.

Ibrahim Kalin received his doctorate in Middle East Studies/Islamic Studies from George Washington University and is a senior fellow with the Saudi-funded Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding (ACMCU) at Georgetown University. He taught at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Mass., from 2002 to 2005.

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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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