The withdrawal of the Turkish ambassador to Dhaka after the execution of Motiur Rahman Nizami, the infamous war criminal and one of the architects of the genocide of 1971, comes as no surprise.

This is in response to the honourable Turkish Ambassador Hüseyin Müftüoğlu's rejoinder (August 4, 2015) to my op-ed, “Erdogan's war and US myopia” (TDS, August 3, 2015).