"Mashallah. She has a flag too in her pocket. If she becomes a martyr, inshallah (God willing) they will lay the flag [on her]," Erdogan said upon seeing the child wearing a uniform of the Turkish special forces. He was addressing the convention of his ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) in the city of Kahramanmaras. The AKP audience was cheering in support of the army staging a cross-border offensive to dislodge the US-backed People's Protection Units (YPG) from the besieged enclave of Afrin in Syrian Kurdistan. The leader of the newly-formed nationalist right-wing IYI Party (Good Party), Meral Aksener,...