Something's very very very wrong here. Time's editors are praising a leader who is bringing repression and almost a new civil war to his own country in order to impose sharia law???? and turn a secular democratic country into another Islamic totalitarianism country???? The people who work for the Time's have gone insane!!!

SO ERDOGAN, FOR THIS PERVERTED TIME EDITORIAL LOGIC, IS IN VERY GOOD COMPANY. in any case, where other than in waiting rooms are copies of of this rag ever read?

EST please just shut up, you don't even know what's going on Turkey, when we start to think our benefit u guys just started to blame us to being a another islamic state. man no such a thing you know we are getting stron and we are no longer need either usa nor israel that is the things bother u guys and this is making us so happy,

tayyip should be praised for standing up to Israel and u.s. ? What gives here, turkey FOMENTED the international incident by trying to break LEGAL BLOCKADE, with no less bring so-called activists (who were really TERRORISTS). The mari mava was boarded by Israeli comandos who were ATTACKED with weapons by made the ships PARTS. So peace activists? Then tayyip has the GAUL to demand an appology? This guy is the newest puppet under the puppet master iran. If this Israeli anti-semite ends up on the cover of time NOT only will I NEVER pick up time again I will inform everyone I know NOT to time ever again !!!

If Time is running Erdogan because "His rhetorical takedown of Israel, which he repeatedly accused of 'inhumane state terrorism,' was particularly striking given Ankara's history of warm relations with Israel and the US" then Time is praising him for rhetoric and turning his back on friends. Hmmm. If Bibi were to do the same thing, would TIME respond by suggesting him as man of the year? No. There's the old double standard again.

now we're actually rewarding people for going against us, all for the sake of "equality" and "look at us, we're so tolerant we love people who hate us. aren't we great"?

long live Erdogan

dont u guys know ur not so many? Time is run by Richard Stengel a graduate from Christ Church, Oxford university. Not everyone who disagrees with you guys is an arab pro islam bla bla bla.

It doesn't have many readers in the U.S. here is it's most recent stats. During the second half of 2009 the magazine saw a 34.9% decline in news stand sales.[8] During the first half of 2010 there was another decline of at least one third in Time magazine sales.

Of course Turkey does'nt need Israel nor USA. Turkey is now bossom buddies with Iran. What fun !!

Erdogan can be prised because he is standing up to Israel only by country where democracy is just an empty word. His policy is endangering the NATO and the European security and the risk in the near future is to become a black listed country will.

Clearly a ballot stuffing initiative by some Islamic group. Just sign on and vote him down to zero. In any case, number 2 on the list is Lady Gaga so he is great company with another talentless idiot.

T:THIS I:IS M:MY >>>>>TIME E:END Helen Thomas stood up to Israel& US of A; plus has Bigger Kahona.s than Erdogan AND sing like a Lady Gaga'What gives !Does God Play Dice?

TIME has been anti-Jewish/anti-Israel more than 70 years, from at least since Clair Booth Luce, the the notorious anti-Semite, married the owner of the publication.

I presume that Ilan is referring to Turkish press censorship. My knowledge of it is only slight and is just based on personal experience.I have attempted to place comments similar to these in on-line English language Turkish newspapers,but never even once been published. It seems that criticism isn't allowed in Erdogan Turkey. THREE CHEERS FOR ISRAEL!!!

...after he got in bed with it, murdered Kurds, drained the Marsh Arabs' home, imposed sharia law for thieves, etc. But we already know from MSM like Time that certain lives are worth less than others, and Erdogan is getting props mostly because he threw a fit when his terrorist flotilla buddies were killed in self-defense by Jews. At the same time, the US is culpable for enabling not just Hussein, but both the Turkish military's authoritarian rule and the ascent of Erdogan (via apathy and the whitewash of "democracy always brings good") as an egomaniacal regional power-broker - the point being that these are not self-made men. You may as well true up the past and make Monica Lewinsky the 1998 Person of the Year, since her achievements were no less stunning.

there simply haven't been any more.

many unemployed having all the time to get on line and vote. Just about a week ago Julian Assange was number 1. Once the Turkish Newspapers wrote about it next day Erdogan started to advance in the poll. A few years ago there was an Internet site about the most liked country in the world. Turkey became a leader as soon as the site's URL was published in the papers. This is fine. After all Turks are getting the only attention in these polls that they can control by block voting while Israel is getting attention with scientific research, Nobel prizes, contributions to medicine, arts and humanity.

1938 -- Adolf Hitler 1932 and 1942 -- Josef Stalin 1971 -- Richard Nixon 1974 -- King Faisal 1976 -- Jimmy Carter 1979 -- Ayatollah Khomeini 2007 -- Vladimir Putin 2008 -- Barack Obama Take a look at the foregoing list. Can anyone deny that Erdogan belongs right alongside those previous winners of Time's "Man of the Year" Award?

He also stands up to America and Israel Time magazine is a disgrace!

so if people at Time mag dont agree with you they're insane?

Who reads TIME anymore? Only idiots who Love misinformation and Propaganda. Time is a laughing stock of Libtardism and stupidity: a splendor of human malformation and supreme mediocrity. On a serious note: this is a horrible diservice to the Kurds, who regularly face tremendous prejudice and death...and to the Armenians, whom Erdogan us too cowardly to apologize to. He is a disgrace to human history, as is Time Fauxgazine.