The sin of provocation, Turkish President Erdogan helpfully explained in January 2015, was when mischief-makers fomented ‘hatred and enmity’ in the world.
President Trump, according to Erdogan’s spokesman, has now assumed the post of Provocateur-in-Chief: ‘Declaring Jerusalem a capital is disregarding history and the truths in the region, it is a big injustice/cruelty, short-sightedness, foolishness/madness, it is plunging the world into a fire with no end in sight.
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