Erdoğan’s Cleric Calls For Turkish Nuclear Weapons | MEMRI

In his March 16, 2017 column in the Turkish pro-AKP government daily Yeni Safak, Hayrettin Karaman, suggests, under the title „What To Do,“ that Turkey should develop its nuclear weapons capability as a counterbalance to the West. Karaman, a well-known professor of Islamic law in Turkey who is known for his closeness to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, is often referred to as Erdoğan’s „fatwa-issuing imam“ or Erdoğan’s cleric.