The donkey rider vs. The dragon

Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu lives the difficult life of fiction heroes. The tiny Turkish superman is fighting evil in every corner of a world populated by an increasing number of evil men. But the hero will never grow tired of fighting.  

After having liberated Jerusalem, Damascus and Cairo, removed a brutal naval embargo on Gaza and united all Muslim populations of the former Ottoman lands ? all in a span of five years ? Mr. Davuto?lu, in his new adventure, faces an unlikely but equally evil enemy in faraway lands. In the new episode of ?The Adventures of the Man Who Would Change the World,? the willing savior of the world?s oppressed Muslims will fight and kill a merciless dragon. The new unfortunate enemy is China, or, in the words of one of the many Turkish Pravdas, ?Israel?s twin, China.?    

A ?Free East Turkestan? signature campaign claims that the number of ethnic Uighurs killed by the Chinese security forces is more than the death toll in Palestine, Iraq and Syria combined. Surprisingly, in the face of such a Muslim death toll (millions, according to the East Turkestan campaigners), the Turkish Foreign Ministry shyly said it was merely ?saddened? by reports that Uighur Muslims had been banned from worshiping and fasting during Ramadan. 

Such is the setup for Mr. Davuto?lu?s dangerous ?Mission Dragon.? But even before the hero devised his own plans to teach China a lesson, possibly like he did to Syria, Israel and Egypt, a group of impatient Turks took their own initiatives. In one incident, angry Turks showed China Turkey?s hard power: They destroyed a Chinese restaurant in Istanbul?s Tophane district. Cihan Yavuz, the owner of [the no longer] ?Happy China? restaurant, almost in tears, told reporters: ?We are Turkish. Our cook...