PRESIDENT ERDOĞAN CELEBRATES HANUKKAH DAY

[Solomon2]

@atatwolf, I appreciate the article, but why post it in the Middle East & Africa section rather than one of the Turkey-oriented sections?

 

[atatwolf]

@atatwolf, I appreciate the article, but why post it in the Middle East & Africa section rather than one of the Turkey-oriented sections?

Because Israel and (partly) Turkey are geographically in the middle-east

 

[Solomon2]

Because Israel and (partly) Turkey are geographically in the middle-east

Why would you think the article is about Israel and why do you now consider Turkey part of the middle-east, rather than Europe?

 

[Saho]

Is there a kebab celebration in Turkey? I'm willing to join.

 

[rmi5]

@atatwolf
I think it is a fake gestures to show that he is not anti-semite but he is a so called anti zionist. Such a BS acts like greeting jews on their special days, ... is done by Iranian regime as well. He is copying mullahs.

 

[Mahmoud_EGY]

You have to be more careful when reading. I said Arab league hasn't done anything. If Arabs can't form a front. What can Turkey do? Turkey wanted to form a front with democratically elected Morsi's Egypt, everything went down south with Pan-Arabs taking over and putting the country in chaos. Now Egypt is surviving off the hand outs of Americans and in return the shut the door on the face of the Palestinians. Without the billions of aid Egypt is getting. People would starve. What Turkey can do in these situations is very limited. People like Hazzy understands this because there are a lot of reasonable Arabs. Syrians, Palestinians, Arabs in Turkey and Arabs throughout the region can understand this. The appreciate the help they have gotten. Turkey is doing their part but we can do only so much when others are not cooperating.

no one asked turkey to help and if some did not in this way
turkey or erdogan interfere in syria do you see it as welcomed and wise or what about millions of syrians wishing to get what they think revenge for supporting terror groups the same with kurds and iraqis
in Egypt he tried to copy what has he done in syria supporting terror groups and if not for our army and allies in the GCC we would have suffered the same fate
palstine it is so easy to talk as i said many times any leader can talk for a while about palstine and isreali occupation what good has he done to them

 

[atatwolf]

no one asked turkey to help and if some did not in this way
turkey or erdogan interfere in syria do you see it as welcomed and wise or what about millions of syrians wishing to get what they think revenge for supporting terror groups the same with kurds and iraqis
in Egypt he tried to copy what has he done in syria supporting terror groups and if not for our army and allies in the GCC we would have suffered the same fate
palstine it is so easy to talk as i said many times any leader can talk for a while about palstine and isreali occupation what good has he done to them

@Dr.Thrax

 

[Mahmoud_EGY]

@Dr.Thrax

i know that he and many syrians oppose el assad also there are alot in the regime side what will that prove ?

 

[Dr.Thrax]

i know that he and many syrians oppose el assad also there are alot in the regime side what will that prove ?

I personally don't know any Syrians who actually oppose Assad. My brother has a former friend who was a shabih and that's about it.
To say that there are a lot of Syrians fighting for Assad - look at his volunteer forces. The majority of his volunteer forces are foreigners, mostly Shiites. Don't see how those people are Syrian. The SAA is different because it's a draft, and even then many people run away from it, defect, or just join the revolutionaries.
Your argument is invalid.

 

[-SINAN-]

Last time we discussed this issue you thanked my posts. You know what kind of business I am talking about. Mutual trade etc. Buying Israeli military hardware etc.

Turkish-Israeli trade booms amid Gaza debate

This guy is an Neo-Ottoman or something along those lines. You think that he cares about Arab interests or Turkish interests?

Why should we trust this guy or his friends?

Okay.... there are two points in your post; Mutual Trade and Buying Israeli military hardware.

1-) Mutual Trade: All of the Israeli companies had been banned from competing in government contracts.... Mutual Trade is growing because of the private companies.. There is no monarchy in Turkey and private companies can not be banned doing business with Israel.

2-) Buying Israeli military hardware: This is pure lie, As i said before all of the Israeli companies had been banned from competing in government contracts.

I think some people have digestion problems with the Turkey's rising influence in the middle-east.

 

[xenon54 out]

Okay.... there are two points in your post; Mutual Trade and Buying Israeli military hardware.

1-) Mutual Trade: All of the Israeli companies had been banned from competing in government contracts.... Mutual Trade is growing because of the private companies.. There is no monarchy in Turkey and private companies can not be banned doing business with Israel.

2-) Buying Israeli military hardware: This is pure lie, As i said before all of the Israeli companies had been banned from competing in government contracts.

I think some people have digestion problems with the Turkey's rising influence in the middle-east.

@al-Hasani isnt completely wrong, Erdogan is welcoming a pipeline from Israel to Turkey, his god is money and his speeches are show if you ask me.

 

[-SINAN-]

@al-Hasani isnt completely wrong, Erdogan is welcoming a pipeline from Israel to Turkey, his god is money and his speeches are show if you ask me.

We all know he worships money instead of Allah.

Pipeline from Israel to Turkey is just a theory. Also, i have not seen him, agreeing on that pipeline.

 

[Solomon2]

Meanwhile Jews in Turkey are protesting anti-semitism and returning to Israel. I wish being a democrat was as easy as celebrating an important day of minorities for one day, and disrespecting them the rest of the 364 days. But guess what? No one's buying this.

‘French Effect’ Hits Turkey as Jews Look to Future Outside of the Country
DECEMBER 16, 2014 12:07 PM 13 COMMENTS
Author: Ben Cohen


A sign stating "This Location To Be Demolished" at the entrance to the Neveh Shalom synagogue, Istanbul, November 2014. Photo: MEMRI

The “French effect” – increasing numbers of Jews leaving a country because of anti-Semitic harassment and hostility from the media and radical politicians – is now emerging in Turkey, where a Turkish-Jewish businessman has warned, in an oped for the Istanbul-based Jewish newspaper Şalom, that a growing number of community members are heading for the exit.

“We face threats, attacks and harassment every day. Hope is fading,” wrote Moise Gabay, a professional in the tourism industry, in an article published on December 10.

In its summary of the article, leading Turkish daily Hurriyet highlighted Gabay’s claim that “around 37 percent of high school graduates from the Jewish community in Turkey prefer to go abroad for higher education … This number doubled this year compared to the previous years.”

Gabay also cited anecdotal evidence of increasing unease among Turkish Jews. “Last week, when I was talking to two of my friends on separate occasions, the conversation turned to our search for another country to move to. That is to say, my generation is also thinking more about leaving this country,” he related.

Uppermost in Gabay’s mind, though, is the fear of anti-Semitic violence.

“The laws have changed. Hate speech is now a crime, but when is a lawsuit ever opened over hate speech against our community? I don’t blame the government alone for this. The opposition, civil society, unions and the democratic public sphere should be a shield for us. They should monitor these incidents. Are they waiting for the shooting of a ‘Hrant’ among us?” he wrote, in a reference to the murder of Hrant Dink, a prominent Turkish-Armenian journalist, by a teenage nationalist in 2007.

Turkish leaders periodically reassure Jews of their safety and worth – just today, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan described his country’s Jews as “the fundamental elements of Turkey” in his greetings for the Chanukah festival which begins tonight – but occasionally soothing words offer little hope in an increasingly hostile environment. Erdoğan himself has described Israel as “worse than Hitler” and, more recently, has lambasted Israel’s “occupation” of the Al Aqsa mosque (located on the same Temple Mount in Jerusalem where, ironically, the Chanukah story took place) as “cruel and barbaric.”

Such sentiments from the country’s authoritarian leader inevitably trickle downwards. As the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) observed in a report on Turkish anti-Semitism issued in September, “Antisemitic incitement by Turkish government officials, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s oft-repeated statements that Israel is more barbaric than Hitler, and antisemitic accusations and threats by the media that support and promote Turkey’s AKP ruling party have fostered an upsurge in antisemitism in the country. A recent survey by Gonzo Insight, the Turkish polling institute, found that in just 24 hours, on July 17-18, 2014, 27,309 Turkish Twitter users sent 30,926 Turkish-language tweets in support of Hitler’s genocide against the Jews.”

MEMRI quoted from several recent newspaper articles inciting outright hatred of Jews, including one by columnist Ibrahim Tenekeci in the pro-government daily Yeni Safak which stated, “It is an instinct of the Jew to do evil to men and to humanity. The Jew cannot live without evil and troublemaking.”

In a separate piece for the Gatestone Institute published this week, Turkish analyst Uzay Bulut placed into historical context the November 21 announcement by Dursun Ali Sahin, the governor of Edirne, a city close to Turkey’s borders with Greece and Bulgaria, that his “huge hatred” of Israel compelled him to turn the city’s synagogue into a museum.

“While those bandits blow winds of war inside al-Aqsa and slay Muslims, we build their synagogues,” Sahin said.

“Anti-Semitism in Turkey and Europe has been around for more than 2,000 years,” Bulut observed. “Hatred of Jews did not start with the re-establishment of the state of Israel. In modern Turkey, it has been promoted systematically for more than 90 years.”

 

[atatwolf]

@Solomon2 , are you Jew?

 

[Serpentine]

@atatwolf
I think it is a fake gestures to show that he is not anti-semite but he is a so called anti zionist. Such a BS acts like greeting jews on their special days, ... is done by Iranian regime as well. He is copying mullahs.

Being anti-semite has nothing to do with being against Israel's occupation and crimes. That's what they are trying to imply to whole world to play victim, just like how they abused the Holocaust and sucked the blood of many countries on that.