Anne-Marie Slaughter was, until last year, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s director of policy planning. Today, Today’s Zaman, a Turkish newspaper affiliated with the Islamist cult of Fethullah Gülen, broadcasts her endorsement of the conspiratorial broadsheet:
“I love Today’s Zaman,” said Anne-Marie Slaughter, a Princeton professor who is also in U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s team of foreign policy advisers. Her hailing of the newspaper illustrated a prevailing positive reception for the young news outlet in many capitals of the West and that it is swiftly becoming a must-read paper for the policy community and state mandarins.
While the Gülenists say they promote tolerance and dialogue, their record is quite opposite. Many see Gülen’s hand behind the unprecedented crackdown on journalists and the free press in Turkey. That a former top aide to Clinton embraces a propaganda outlet like Zaman is a slap to the several dozen Turkish journalists now in prison and those who seek democracy and liberalism inside Turkey. It also reflects the uncritical embrace of political Islamism within the Obama administration and the State Department.
nVery disturbing. One wonders what it will take for the supposedly liberal media to wake up to the AKP's Putinesque assault on press freedoms in Turkey.
Sadly, no one ever gained wisdom through a post-graduate degree.
google hilary clinton presses for more H1-bvisa fraud and then Obamas muslim advisor Gulen and then Tucson weekly hidden agenda and gulen charter schools for starters there is a really big story for this journalist.
yes, mr bill. michael rubin is exactly your type (he is not a journalist but he was very active member of the neo-con group that took the US to Iraq war). I am sure he has a hand in anti-gulen campaigns you are part of. you work like a cult member leaving no room for objectivity and being obsessed with people in the gulen movement. if we could only know who you are..
And we have to believe Michael Rubin, who, in close association with coup loving generals of Turkey, participated in a campaign to discredit Gulen movement with extreme descriptions of Fethullah Gulen and the people inspired by his ideas. He cleverly ignores the fact that it was Gulen who broke the AKP's anti-Israel stance in Turkey during the flotilla crisis with his criticism of the flotilla. If the Gulen movement is a cult, we have to call neocons like Rubin part of a cult too. Rubin continues to erode his credibility in the eyes of independent observers. I should say that Gulen is one of the assurances the West could have in Turkey to keep the country aligned with the West, not Iran and Syria. Rubin shortchanges the interests of the West just to appease his coup-loving friends in Turkey. Go visit todayszaman.com and see if it looks like a cult paper.