Talk about a fair weather friend! More than a week after an American operation killed Osama Bin Laden, a man responsible for thousands of deaths, Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan can’t bring himself to congratulate the United States. Erdogan’s silence, which was brought to my attention by some Turkish friends, is all the more troubling given how an American team tracked Abdullah Ocalan, the leader of the Kurdistan Workers Party terrorist group [PKK] and the most wanted man in Turkey, basically handing him to a Turkish team on a silver platter.

Then again, just five years ago, Erdogan personally vouched for Yasin al-Qadi, a Saudi businessman identified by both the U.S. government and UN agencies as an al-Qaeda financier, after the Turkish press revealed that Cuneyd Zapsu, a top Erdogan advisor, had donated money to al-Qadi’s charity. Turkey no longer has a free press, but an enterprising American reporter might want to ask Namik Tan, Turkey’s ambassador in Washington, to explain Erdogan’s silence.

And, once again, President Obama and members of the Turkish caucus in the U.S. Congress may want to explain why they embrace Turkey as a friend when the fiercely anti-American prime minister does everything in his power to embrace American enemies, encourages terrorist groups like Hamas and Hezbollah, accepts an award from Libyan dictator Qaddafi, and can’t even muster an approving word on the death of a master terrorist who killed not only Americans, but several dozen Turks as well.