To the Point
Obama in Turkey Reaches Out to the Islamic World
In his first visit to a Muslim country as President, Barack Obama told the Turkish parliament today, the US “is not and will never be at war with Islam.” He invoked his Muslim father and his residence in a Muslim country, and called Turkey's secular democracy a model for the 21st Century.
By Warren Olney • • 1 min readIn his first visit to a Muslim country as President, Barack Obama told the Turkish parliament today, the US “is not and will never be at war with Islam.” He invoked his Muslim father and his residence in a Muslim country, and called Turkey's secular democracy a model for the 21st Century. We talk about Turkey's importance to the US and the Western countries and about the so-called “soft” but conservative religious conversion of Islamic youth worldwide.
Warren Olney
former KCRW broadcaster
Christian Bordal
Managing Producer, Greater LA
Sonya Geis
Senior Managing Editor
Andrea Brody
Senior Producer, KCRW's Life Examined and To the Point podcast
Semih Idiz
Al-Monitor's Turkey Pulse
Bulent Aliriza
Director of the Turkey Project, Center for International and Strategic Studies
Robin Wright
contributing writer at The New Yorker magazine, and a joint fellow at U.S. Institute of Peace and the Woodrow Wilson Center