Guilty. But there was a more apt insult for Çiftçi to level. Erdogan is Saruman the traitor, forfeiting Turkey’s past alliance with the West as he turns Turkey into an Islamist nation.

However, while the movies made it seem like Grima was merely a conduit for Saruman's power during the period that Theoden was under the White Wizard's influence, there's likely a reason that ...