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Posted on 11/23/2013 3:29:15 AM PST by DeaconBenjamin
CAIRO: Egypt decided on Saturday to expel Turkish ambassador Huseyin Avni Botsali after remarks made by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan that Cairo deemed as being "provocative," the foreign ministry said.
Ministry spokesman Badr Abdelatty said Cairo took three decisions on Saturday concerning its diplomatic ties with Ankara.
"First to expel the Turkish ambassador and downgrade our ties to the level of charge d'affaires, second to declare the Turkish ambassador persona non grata and third we will not send our ambassador to Turkey," Abdelatty said.
He said the decisions were taken after Erdogan made remarks in Russia on Thursday that were "provocative and interfering in Egypt's internal affairs."
The Turkish premier condemned an August 14 crackdown by Egyptian security forces on supporters of ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi in Cairo.
Usually that’s a prelude to war.
This is a Threat Matrix list documenting threats within and without. Anyone wanting on or off please advise.
Does it ever stop in the Middle East?
Yeah, well since you have Syria and Israel between Egypt and Turkey, I don't think war is very likely.
Perhaps Erdogan wants to “put the band back together”.....Suleiman and the Ottomans.
That is exactly what he wants.
The filthy turks are stirring up trouble everywhere:
..Invoking his country’s former imperial grandeur, Foreign Minister Ahmet Davotoglu had written: “As in the sixteenth century … we will once again make the Balkans, the Caucasus, and the Middle East, together with Turkey , the center of world politics in the future. That is the goal of Turkish foreign policy and we will achieve it.” (Emphasis added)
Quoted by Hillel Fradkin and Lewis Libby, writing in last March/April edition of http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org, the goal of Erdogan’s AKP ruling party for 2023, as proclaimed by its recent Fourth General Congress, is: “A great nation, a great power.” Erdogan urged the youth of Turkey to look not only to 2023, but to 2071 as well when Turkey “will reach the level of our Ottoman and Seljuk ancestors by the year 2071” as he said in December last year.
“2071 will mark one thousand years since the Battle of Manzikert,” when the Seljuk Turks defeated the Byzantine Empire and heralded the advent of the Ottoman one, according to Fradkin and Libby...
Erdogan’s comment on Cyprus irks Athens via Vlad:
http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite1_1_12/11/2013_527538
..In comments to Turkish-Cypriot daily Kibris on Sunday, Erdogan was quoted as saying: “There is no country named Cyprus. There is the local administration of south Cyprus.”...
Thanks DeaconBenjamin.
We already know the Kenyan will side with the muzzies, now that the winds are blowing in an ugly direction.
Egypt Expels Turkey’s Ambassador, Further Fraying Diplomatic Ties
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/24/world/middleeast/diplomatic-ties-fraying-between-egypt-and-turkey.html?_r=0
Egypt expels Turkish ambassador, Turkey retaliates
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/11/23/us-egypt-turkey-idUSBRE9AM03Y20131123
Muslim Brotherhood angry at Turkish Prime Minister, Erdogan call for a secular Egypt [09/14/2011]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2778214/posts
Egypt Begins Descent into Tyranny...Obama’s pro-Brotherhood policy brings end to freedom in Egypt [8/15/2012]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2918736/posts
Egyptians Bewildered Over Support for Muslim Brotherhood [8/25/2013]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3058761/posts
New Kurdish Party Could Impact Local Turkish Elections
http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2013/10/new-kurdish-party-could-impact-turkey-elections.html
Turkish presidential election, 2014
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_presidential_election,_2014
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdullah_G%C3%BCl#Presidency
(I thought we’d had a topic on FR regarding Gul’s challenging Erdogan for the PM job, now that Erdogan has made sure Gul can’t have a second term as President)
I swore off Turkey ... will have Ham.
Can’t do ham. It ain’t kosher.
sorry Mesta ... I have the experience for Ham or Beef .... May all for you be kosher.
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