Tag: Erdogan

“Erdogan... is committing genocide against the Kurds and... holds the world record for imprisoning journalists who oppose his regime."

"You can have as many nuclear bombs as you want, but you're on your way out," said Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

Erdogan urged an immediate cease-fire in the conflict, and said “all parties in the Palestine-Israel war should take their fingers off the trigger.”

Abbas and Haniyeh met together with Erdoğan behind closed doors, according to the Turkish leader’s office.

Turkey will also host Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas, who will fly to Ankara on July 25.

If Kilicdaroglu wins, it is potentially threatening to Israel due to his political partners.

Erdogan’s AK Party's alliance is expected to form a majority in parliament.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is facing the toughest challenge of his political life, running neck and neck with challenger Kemal Kilicdaroglu – 44...

Lapid thanked Erdoğan for the recent intelligence cooperation and the thwarting of Iran’s attempts to carry out terrorist attacks against Israelis on Turkish soil this past year.

Israel is very much afraid that Turkish President Erdogan will appoint Ufuk Ulutas.

The Haredi MKs letter is the first open expression of no confidence in Netanyahu, and much less blunt than those issued, reportedly, by Netanyahu's own senior party members.

Pompeo cited the Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (CAATSA) as the basis for the sanctions against Turkey.

In the wake of the "Arab Spring," winds of change and revision were beginning to blow in Jordan as well, and the largest and most organized body involved was the Muslim Brotherhood.

The paper points to the fact that Prime Minister Netanyahu has excluded his Foreign and Defense Ministers from his meeting with the Saudi Crown Prince,.

Saleh al-Arouri, who attended the meeting in Istanbul, calls his organization’s abduction and murder of three Israeli teens in 2014 a “heroic operation.”

“Turkey must reverse course on this destabilizing action to renew the United States’ confidence in our defense relationship,” according to Michael McCaul (R-Texas).

Turkey is bombing Christians, Yazidis, and Kurds in the northwest Iraq autonomous region. A Turkish drone strike in the Sulaymaniyah Province killed three civilians. A bomb dropped in the attack landed in a resort near three children and parents in a river. Erdogan says he is “only attacking PKK bases” in the Kurdish autonomous region. Turkish forces occupy 60 villages in the Kurdish autonomous region of Iraq. The reality is Erdogan is attacking civilians pursuing a plan to annex areas that Turkey held during the Ottoman Empire. “Turkey is today’s Nazi Germany. Erdogan believes that a Good Kurd is a Dead Kurd”, says Diliman Abdulkader, co-founder and chief spokesperson for American Friends of Kurdistan.

The offer to buyout the Russian systems would give Erdoğan a path back to becoming an active member of NATO once again.

"There is no basis for such serious charges against Netanyahu."

This week, President Trump's other friend in the Middle East, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, called President Erdogan an “anti-Semitic dictator.”

If Turkey also receives the F-35s from the US, operating its S-400 Russian missile system alongside the F-35s would expose the jet’s secrets to the Russians.

All about Turkey's leadership, and a bit about Prince William of Britain.

The Jordanians are afraid that Erdogan is trying to undermine the status of the Hashemite Kingdom as guardian of the holy Muslim sites in the city.

Dr. Morechai Ben Menachem joins Tamar on the show and explains the importance, and the dangers if Iran, Turkey, North Korea, and other key-players are not stopped.

In July, when Turkish President Erdogan attacked Israel's security policy on the Temple Mount, Netanyahu issued a statement saying, "It would be interesting to see what Erdogan would say to ... the Kurds. Erdogan is the last one who can preach to Israel."

All the news stirred up!

Erdogan lectured Biden on how Gulen is operating a global terrorist network from his little home in Pennsylvania, and repeated his demand that the US immediately detain Gulen, so he won't give media interviews.

US-Turkey relations have so deteriorated after the coup that Washington no longer trusts Ankara with the nuclear weapons.

One MP said "the German government cannot publicly designate the godfather of terrorism Erdogan as a partner, while internally warning about Turkey as a hub for terrorism."

It isn't clear who is panicking more at the moment—Jerusalem or Washington—over the possibility that Turkey, a NATO member, would switch sides and coalesce with Russia and Iran.