Posted on 10/04/2020 6:25:29 PM PDT by MacNaughton
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has warned the world Jerusalem “belongs” to Turkey, harking back to the Ottoman Empire’s control over the city for hundreds of years up until it was ejected in 1917.
Erdogan made his public claim Thursday as he addressed Turkish lawmakers during a major policy speech in Ankara. He said: "In this city that we had to leave in tears during the First World War, it is still possible to come across traces of the Ottoman resistance. So Jerusalem is our city, a city from us. Our first qibla [direction of prayer in Islam] al-Aqsa and the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem are the symbolic mosques of our faith. In addition, this city is home to the holy places of Christianity and Judaism."
As the Times of Israel reported, the Ottoman Empire ruled Jerusalem from 1516 to 1917. Modern Turkey, its successor state, has long claimed a connection to the holy city, regularly condemning Israel for alleged attemtps to “Judaize” it and the U.S. administration’s December 2017 recognition of it as Israel’s capital.
Turkey’s claim to ownership and an Islamic proprietary interest in the city defies thousands of years of accepted wisdom that confirms some of Judaism’s holiest sites are located in the West Bank and eastern Jerusalem.
These include the Temple Mount and Western Wall in Jerusalem; the Tomb of the Patriarchs and Matriarchs in Hebron; and Joseph’s Tomb in Nablus.
That did not stop Erdoğan during his lengthy speech to the Turkish parliament lamenting the fate of Jerusalem and Palestinians and reaffirming his embrace of Hamas, the Islamist group that controls the Gaza Strip, and is deemed a terrorist group by Israel, the E.U. and the U.S. ...
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Why is Turkey still in the U.N.?
Leverage....when he doesn’t get his way he ships out to Europe all the thousands of refugees ‘stored’ in his refugee camps. When they begin pouring in they appease him.
Estrogen
“Why is Turkey still in the U.N.?”
The rest of NATO is the abused woman in a relationship. She’s afraid to call it quits because she fears the reaction that will cause and she doesn’t feel ready to deal with it. From the US’ perspective, we have enough other hot problems on the plate and don’t need another one if that one can be put off into the future.
What the US could do is vacate Incirlik. The US (Trump) has already imposed sanctions. Another thing would be to step up assistance to the Kurds. Travel and tourism to Turkey should be discouraged, to prevent hostage taking, but I am not sure how one does that given the current legal situation.
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Come and get it, you jive Turkey.
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