Posted on 05/27/2015 4:01:35 PM PDT by markomalley
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan Tuesday opened a new airport in a restive eastern province dogged by a Kurdish separatist insurgency, naming the facility for a celebrated Muslim medieval leader of Kurdish origin.
Erdogan inaugurated the airport in Yuksekova in Hakkari province, close to the border with Iran and Iraq, alongside Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu in a joint appearance ahead of June 7 elections.
They announced the airport would be named for Selahaddin Eyyubi to remember the 12th century founder of the Ayyubid dynasty who led Muslim resistance against Christian crusaders in the Middle East who sought to control Jerusalem.
Of Kurdish origin, he is known simply as Saladin and in Arabic as Salah ad-Din.
"We are naming this airport Selahaddin Eyyubi to send a message of solidarity and brotherhood and to say that Jerusalem belongs to Kurds, Turks, Arabs and Muslims forever."
Pious Muslims, Davutoglu and Erdogan frequently make use of religious rhetoric to rouse followers.
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Something to mull over really carefully...
Saladin was a Kurd.
Why are they still in NATO.
Turkey has the largest military out of our NATO allies, and they still have an advantage with locking the Russians out of the Mediterranean.
That said, the AKP is wandering a bit too far into the Islamist direction.
Yep. Seems to have been gradual.
Mad Mo’ is a Johnny-come-lately.
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