Following the recent spat between Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Israeli President Shimon Peres [1] at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Istanbul Calling comments on the furore surrounding the ethnic origins of the panel's moderator, David Ignatius. In particular, the blog notes how a battle unfolded on Wikipedia to change his ethnicity from Armenian to Jewish or an Armenian/Jewish hybrid in order to fan the flames of a rapidly escalating online battle of words [2].
Turkey: The Online Conversion of David Ignatius
· Written by Onnik Krikorian
Categories: Central Asia & Caucasus, Middle East & North Africa, Armenia, Israel, Turkey, Ethnicity & Race, Politics, Protest, War & Conflict