Posted on 08/17/2016 12:02:12 PM PDT by Mount Athos
The German government has accused Turkey of being a hub for Islamist groups that allows them to further their aims across the Middle East, according to a leaked confidential document.
It alleges that the government of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan supports Palestinian militant group Hamas, Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood and “groups in the armed Islamist opposition in Syria,” all of which follow Sunni Islam, the same strand as the majority of Muslim Turks.
In its response, the ministry says that the Turkish government’s “numerous statements of solidarity and supportive actions” for these three groups “underline their ideological affinity with the Muslim Brothers.”
It continued to say that “as a result of Ankara’s domestic and foreign policy that has been Islamized step-by-step above all since 2011, Turkey has developed into the central platform of action for Islamist groups in the Middle East region.”
The Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt had the country’s first-ever democratically-elected leader, Mohamed Morsi, in 2011 before the military overthrew him in 2013. Egypt and Saudi Arabia classify the Muslim Brotherhood as an extremist organization.
Turkey continues to deny that it delivers arms to Syrian rebel groups but the Turkish press has alleged that the military is doing so. Turkish newspaper Cumhuriyet reported in May 2015 footage, shot in January 2014, of Turkish intelligence attempting to transfer arms across the Turkish border into northern Syria.
Relations between Berlin and Ankara are still fraught after the Bundestag voted to call an Ottoman Turk mass killing of Armenians as a genocide in June.
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So this is why Barky isn’t worried about all those Nukes in Turkey...that explains a lot...
Yep.......he wants sharia to have them. Turkey, Iran.
So the ‘attempted coup’ was really a ruse to discover who was against sharia law and the MB takeover
Competing with Iran....TERROR STRONGHOLD.....
The German government?
“Competing with Iran....TERROR STRONGHOLD.....”
I never thought I’d say this, but I would be rooting for Iran. This would all be much simpler if someone would shoot a nuke towards us and we turned the middle east into a lovely, shiny, glass-topped parking lot.
Is Obama really going to do nothing to get our nuclear weapons out of there?
Explained Germany and Turkey at odds over Germany calling the slaughter of the Armenians in (1919?) genocide. I have a National Geographic from 1919 with detailed coverage with pictures from Armenia/Turkey. If it was not genocide, and I don’t remember that word being used in those days, then it was the very next worst thing. I’ll be some of the Saudi Arabian leadership are cursing the day the royal house ever made a deal with Wahhab 2 or 3 centuries ago.
Same trick that Mao tried...”Let a million flowers bloom.” He encouraged people to be open and speak their minds in what was supposed to be a reform movement and then he cracked down on the critics.
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