I was surprised today when I saw reporting in the Turkish media about the recent statements made by Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate in Indiana Richard Mourdock.
They have headlines like “Another Rape Crisis for the Republican Party” and included coverage of Romney’s tepid reaction to Mourdock’s statement.
Abortion was in the news quite a lot this spring and summer when Turkish PM Erdogan took a cue from the Republican playbook and stated that he thought that abortion was murder and seemed to be trying to get support for an abortion ban going among the Turkish people. Abortion is generally easily available here and not controversial, and the backlash to the PM’s remarks was swift and strong.
President Obama is popular in Turkey and people here are hoping he is reelected.