Abdullah II of Jordan it after the 1948 Arab–Israeli War and lost in the 1967 Six-Day War. Its annexation of the West Bank was not recognized, and in 1988 the kingdom ceded its claim to the territory. An interview with Abdullah by Jeffrey Goldberg, published in "The Atlantic" in March 2013, sparked controversy when the king criticized local and international figures and parties. He called the Muslim Brotherhood a "Masonic cult" and "wolves in sheep's clothing", described ousted Egyptian president Mohammad Morsi as a man with "no depth" and said that Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan saw democracy as "a bus ride". Abdullah
B. G. L. Swamy B. G. L. Swamy Basavangudi Gundappa Lakshminarayana Swamy (1918–1980, also known as B. G. L. Swamy) was an Indian botanist and Kannada writer who was professor and head of the department of Botany and a principal of Presidency College, Chennai. He was the son of D. V. Gundappa, an Indian writer and philosopher. Swamy studied in Central College, Bangalore and obtained his bachelor's degree in botany. He got his PhD from the University of Mysore in 1947 and had a brief post-doctoral period at Harvard University, under Irving Bailey. From 1953, he served as professor of botany (and later principal)