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Re: Turkey
DIR By: d
Date: October 24, 2023, 1:53 am
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HTML https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/turkeys-erdogan-discussed-gaza-with-hamas-leader-turkish-presidency-2023-10-21/
Turkey's Erdogan discussed Gaza with Hamas leader - Turkish
presidency
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> Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan discussed Gaza in phone call
with the leader of the Palestinian militant group Hamas, Ismail
Haniyeh, on Saturday.
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> Erdogan told Haniyeh about Ankara's efforts for a ceasefire,
for humanitarian aid to reach Gaza and possible treatment of the
wounded in Turkey.
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HTML https://www.dailysabah.com/world/mid-east/turkiye-dispatches-2-more-military-aircraft-carrying-aid-for-gaza
Türkiye dispatches 2 more military aircraft carrying aid for
Gaza
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> Türkiye sent two more cargo planes to Egypt on Monday carrying
medical equipment and supplies for Gaza, Health Minister
Fahrettin Koca said, adding two more aircraft would be sent with
more supplies.
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> Earlier this month, Türkiye sent three aircraft carrying aid
for Gaza. On Sunday, it also sent a medical team and supplies to
Egypt, saying Ankara was ready to treat wounded Palestinians in
Türkiye, if needed, and to set up a field hospital at Egypt's El
Arish Airport and Rafah border crossing.
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> Turkish authorities had previously said preparations were
underway to lend a helping hand to people in Gaza, who are in
dire need of care and support.
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> "We continue to extend our helping hand to Gaza. We have begun
loading aid packages, mostly containing medical supplies," the
National Defense Ministry had said.
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Re: Turkey
DIR By: gaza
Date: October 24, 2023, 6:00 pm
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HTML https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/erdogan-putin-western-silence-worsening-humanitarian-situation-gaza-2023-10-24/
Erdogan to Putin: Western 'silence' worsening humanitarian
situation in Gaza
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> Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday told his Russian
counterpart Vladimir Putin in a call that Western countries'
"silence" was exacerbating the humanitarian crisis in Gaza,
Erdogan's office said.
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> In a statement, the presidency said Erdogan told Putin the
"savagery" towards Palestinian lands was deepening and that
civilians were constantly being killed.
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> He also repeated earlier comments that Turkey, a NATO ally,
would continue working to achieve calm in the region, the
statement added.
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> Western countries have stressed Israel's right to defend
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Re: Turkey
DIR By: .
Date: October 25, 2023, 10:04 pm
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HTML https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/25/turkeys-erdogan-scraps-israel-trip-over-inhumane-gaza-war
Turkey’s Erdogan scraps Israel trip over ‘inhumane’ Gaza war
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> Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called off a
planned visit to Israel over its “inhumane” war in Gaza, saying
relations between the two states would not improve.
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> “We had a project to go to Israel, but it was cancelled; we
will not go,” he told governing party lawmakers in parliament on
Wednesday as he lambasted Israel’s bombing campaign in Gaza and
defended Hamas.
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> Erdogan’s biting remarks extend a deterioration in ties
between Turkey and Israel, which have had a rocky,
back-and-forth relationship for years.
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> Once tight regional allies, Turkey froze links with Israel in
2010, after Israeli military forces carried out a raid on a
Turkish ship heading to Gaza with aid supplies, killing 10
civilians.
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> While the two states restored ties in 2016, Turkey again
dismissed Israeli envoys in 2018 over Israel’s deadly crackdown
on peaceful Palestinian protesters at Gaza’s fence with Israel.
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Re: Turkey
DIR By: WarCrimes
Date: October 28, 2023, 12:14 pm
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Eclipsing Turkey's centenary, Erdogan tells pro-Palestinian
rally: Israel is occupier
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> ISTANBUL (Reuters) -President Tayyip Erdogan addressed
hundreds of thousands of supporters at one of the largest
pro-Palestinian rallies since the Israel-Hamas war began,
courting his Islamist political base a day ahead of the
centenary of Turkey's secular republic.
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> "Israel has been openly committing war crimes for 22 days, but
the Western leaders cannot even call on Israel for a ceasefire,
let alone react to it," Erdogan told the crowd in Istanbul, who
waved Palestinian flags.
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> "We will tell the whole world that Israel is a war criminal.
We are making preparations for this. We will declare Israel a
war criminal," he said.
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> In an hour-long speech, Erdogan also repeated his assertion
that Hamas was not a terrorist organisation, describing Israel
as an occupier.
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> Turkey has condemned Israeli civilian deaths caused by Hamas's
Oct. 7 rampage through southern Israel, which killed 1,400, but
Erdogan this week called the militant group Palestinian "freedom
fighters".
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> He also criticised some Western nations' unconditional support
for Israel, drawing sharp rebukes from Italy and Israel.
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> Unlike many NATO allies, the European Union and some Gulf
states, Turkey does not consider Hamas a terrorist organisation.
It has long hosted its members, supports a two-state solution
and has offered to play a role in negotiating the release of
hostages abducted by Hamas during the Oct. 7 assault.
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> Political analysts said Erdogan was keen to reinforce his
criticism of Israel's bombardment of the Gaza Strip and to
overshadow Sunday's celebrations marking Turkey's secular roots.
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> Sinan Ulgen, a former Turkish diplomat and director of the
Centre for Economic and Foreign Policy Studies, an
Istanbul-based think-tank, said Gaza's worsening humanitarian
crisis and pressure from political allies had prompted Erdogan
to sharpen his rhetoric.
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> Turkey "will protect its principles and share these with the
international community, but it needs to do this with a more
delicate diplomacy if it expects to play such a diplomatic
role," Ulgen said.
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> The heads of allied nationalist and Islamist parties - which
helped Erdogan secure victory in tight May elections - attended
the rally at Istanbul's old airport. Erdogan criticised
opposition parties for not calling Netanyahu a "terrorist" and
for using the same term with reference to Hamas.
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> Erdogan had invited all Turks to attend the rally where he
said "only our flag and the Palestine flag will wave". His
Islamist-rooted AK Party had predicted more than a million
people would come.
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> Modern Turkey's 100th anniversary comes on Sunday, when
newspaper headlines could be dominated by news of the Saturday
rally rather than celebrations of the republic's founder,
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, analysts say.
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> Erdogan, Turkey's longest-serving leader, and his AK Party
have eroded support for the Western-facing ideals of Ataturk,
who is revered by most Turks. In recent years, Erdogan's
portraits have appeared alongside those of Ataturk on government
buildings and schools.
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> "The symbolism is clear and no one in Turkey is unaware of it
- that the pro-Palestinian rally is likely to overshadow
celebrations for the centennial of the secular republic," said
Asli Aydintasbas, visiting fellow at the Washington-based
Brookings Institution.
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> She said that while Erdogan's comments about Hamas reflected
Ankara's long-held position, he aimed to benefit from
anti-Israel sentiment domestically and "consolidate Turkey's
Sunni conservatives".
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> The government has said the Israel-Hamas conflict will not
restrict celebrations of the 100th anniversary, for which it has
organised events across the country.
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Re: Turkey
DIR By: turkey
Date: October 29, 2023, 10:48 pm
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HTML https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/28/turkeys-erdogan-tells-pro-palestinian-rally-that-israel-is-an-occupier
Turkey’s Erdogan tells pro-Palestinian rally Israel is ‘an
occupier’
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> At a massive pro-Palestinian rally in Istanbul, Turkish
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Israel was an occupier in
its war in Gaza, and repeated his stance about Hamas not being a
terrorist organisation.
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> “I reiterate that Hamas is not a terrorist organisation.
Israel was very offended by this … Israel is an occupier,
Erdogan speaks clearly because Turkey does not owe you anything,
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> Erdogan told the crowd that Western powers were “the main
culprit” behind the Israeli army’s “massacre” of Palestinians in
Gaza.
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> “The main culprit behind the massacre unfolding in Gaza is the
West,” said.
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> Meanwhile, thousands of protesters were seen pouring onto the
streets of London to demand the British government to call for a
ceasefire. Other rallies were taking place elsewhere in the UK,
including in Manchester and Glasgow.
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> On Friday evening, police in Berlin again broke up several
pro-Palestinian demonstrations.
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> Authorities in Berlin have banned most pro-Palestinian rallies
or demonstrations in the weeks since the 7 October attack by
Hamas.
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Re: War
DIR By: T�rkiye
Date: October 30, 2023, 6:13 pm
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Iran, Turkey Threaten Israel | CBN NewsWatch - October 30, 2023
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> As Israel steps up its ground attacks in Gaza, Prime Minister
Netanyahu warns of a “long and difficult” war, and Jews are
threatened in Russia, Iran says Israel has “crossed the red
lines,” and Turkey’s President Recep Erdogan calls Israel a war
criminal and raises the possibility of sending troops to Gaza;
CBN Middle East Bureau Chief Chris Mitchell talks from Jerusalem
about Israel’s growing invasion, the threats from Iran and
Turkey, and how Israel is dealing with the hostage situation;
how Hamas is using a location under the largest hospital in Gaza
as its main base of operations; with up to 600 American citizens
trapped in Gaza, CBN News has a look at one Palestinian-American
family still there, and the obstacles they face in getting out.
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwKPpKTgRGQ
Baykar’s Selcuk Bayraktar reiterates his support for Palestine’s
Gaza
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> "It is very sad for us on behalf of humanity to witness such
an atrocity and genocide (in Gaza).
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> "Selcuk Bayraktar, the chairman of Türkiye’s leading drone
manufacturer Baykar Technologies, condemned Israel’s war on
Palestine’s Gaza and affirmed his efforts to help end the recent
conflict in an interview with TRT.
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sonf89K9wQA
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Re: Turkey
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: October 30, 2023, 10:24 pm
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First I said it:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-false-left/war/msg22992/#msg22992
Now Erdogan is saying it:
HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/turkeys-erdogan-laments-loss-ottoman-181356760.html
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> Turkey's Erdogan laments loss of Ottoman Empire at
pro-Palestinian rally
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> Erdogan compared cities in Greece, Macedonia, Syria, Iraq and
Gaza to ones in Turkey, saying that they were "an inseparable
part of the homeland’s territory," according to Abdullah
Bozkurt, a journalist and director of the Nordic Research &
Monitoring Network.
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> "A century ago, for this nation and this country, Gaza was
what Adana is," Erdogan reportedly said.
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> "They separated us from all these lands that are as much a
part of us as our blood, our life, and our love," he continued.
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Re: Turkey
DIR By: ottoman
Date: October 31, 2023, 1:57 am
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Erdogan: “We may suddenly knock on your door one night”
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> Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan condemned the
international community’s perceived double standards towards the
ongoing crisis in Gaza in a speech on Saturday, questioning the
silence of those who expressed sorrow for the civilian deaths in
the Ukraine-Russia war.
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> The Turkish leader’s message highlights the thousands of
innocent children killed in Gaza, urging global leaders to raise
their voices against this, as they did for Ukraine.
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Re: Turkey
DIR By: turkey
Date: October 31, 2023, 11:12 pm
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HTML https://www.ekathimerini.com/opinion/1223690/turkeys-path-of-no-return-away-from-the-west/
Turkey’s path of no return, away from the West
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> In the conflict between Israel and Hamas, Turkish President
Recep Tayyip Erdogan made his choice.
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> As Israel’s operations in the Gaza Strip continued, there was
an uproar inside Turkey, with all political parties openly
opposing Israel.
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> the Turkish parliament even issued a statement unanimously
condemning Israel and calling on the rest of the Muslim
countries to follow suit. Just a few days later, Erdogan’s
far-right coalition partner and Nationalist Movement Party (MHP)
leader Devlet Bahceli even called for military intervention in
Gaza to protect the Palestinians. He also pointed out that
Turkey’s security passes through Jerusalem, reinforcing the
perception of the country’s role as an interregional ruler that
aspires to serve as a protector of Muslims.
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> At the same time, Erdogan was emphasizing the humanitarian
disaster taking place in Gaza, accusing the West of hypocrisy
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> his image in the Muslim world is strengthened, since he is
presented as more daring than many Arab leaders, even though
Turkey is a member of NATO.
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> Acting as a quasi-religious leader, he moralizes and appears
to advocate – even at the expense of Turkish interests – the
protection of the weak and downtrodden. This, in turn,
facilitates his request for the creation of a fairer world, with
Ankara in a leading role.
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> Ankara is clearly leaning towards the East. It does not feel
the obligation to facilitate its Western partners in their
strategic plans.
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Re: EU
DIR By: turkey
Date: November 4, 2023, 4:08 pm
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HTML https://www.euronews.com/2023/11/04/israel-hamas-war-netanyahu-rebuffs-pushes-for-gaza-humanitarian-pause-until-hostages-are-r
Israel-Hamas war: Erdogan cuts ties with Netanyahu as Israeli PM
rejects call for humanitarian pause
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> Antony Blinken has reiterated that the United States supports
“humanitarian pauses” in the conflict between Israel and Hamas.
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> “The United States believes that all of these efforts will be
made easier by these humanitarian pauses,” Blinken said at a
news conference in Amman of efforts to spare Palestinian
civilians and speed up the delivery of aid to the Gaza Strip.
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> Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu snubbed Blinken's
blunt warning that Israel risks losing any hope of an eventual
peace deal with the Palestinians unless it eases the
humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
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> Turkey announces recall of its ambassador to Israel
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> Turkey has announced the recall of its ambassador to Israel
for consultations, due to Israel's refusal to accept a ceasefire
in Gaza.
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> Ambassador Sakir Ozkan Torunlar was recalled in view of "the
ongoing humanitarian tragedy in Gaza caused by Israel's
continued attacks on civilians and Israel's refusal (to accept)
a ceasefire," the Turkish Foreign Ministry said.
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> Turkey: for Erdogan, Netanyahu is 'no longer someone we can
talk to'
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> Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday that
he was cutting off all contact with Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu due to Israel's actions in the Gaza Strip.
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> "Netanyahu is no longer someone we can talk to. We have given
up on him," said Erdogan, according to comments reported by
Turkish media.
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> On 25 October, the Turkish president, who met Benjamin
Netanyahu most recently in September in New York, announced that
he was abandoning all his plans to travel to Israel, claiming to
have been "abused" by the Israeli Prime Minister.
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> “You will not find any other state whose army behaves with
such inhumanity,” he said regarding the reprisals carried out by
Israel in Gaza.
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> Israel announced on 29 October to withdraw all of its
diplomats from Turkey.
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> Erdogan clarified on Saturday that Turkey was not breaking
diplomatic relations with Israel.
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> UN deplores ‘sharp increase in hatred’ across the globe since
7 October
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> The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker
Türk deplored on Saturday "a sharp increase in hatred" in the
world since the Hamas attacks on October 7.
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