Turkish Tweets Turn Heads

Washington Free Beacon writes, A senior Turkish diplomat is facing criticism after declaring that “Al-Qaeda is very different from terror” and accusing the French of intentionally exaggerating the terrorist threat in Mali. “The word ‘terror’ is a French invention. Not the work of Muslims,” Ahmet Kavas, Turkey’s ambassador to Chad, stated via Twitter last month as French forces entered Mali in a bid to impede encroaching Islamist fighters. “Al-Qaeda is very different from terror,” Kavas added in comments interpreted by lawmakers and journalists to mean that he views the global terror group as a legitimate…

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