Turkey: Lies, Cheap Lies and Cheaper Lies | Gatestone Institute

In President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s view, Belarus is decent and peaceful, but Western Europe is not. Merely because Belarus’s dictator, Alexander Lukashenko, agreed to open a mosque to lure some Turkish investment.

Back in Turkey, things look very Belarusian — even worse — rather than Western European, a culture Erdogan despises.