Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, center, and ministers of his government, right, meet with Hamas delegation led by Ismail Haniyeh, in Istanbul, Turkey, April 20, 2024.Turkish Presidency via AP
Posted on 11/18/2024 11:22:31 PM PST by SunkenCiv
Senior members of Hamas's abroad leadership left Qatar last week for Turkey, an Arab diplomat told The Times of Israel on Sunday, after Doha said it was walking away from efforts to mediate an end to the war in Gaza.
The Arab diplomat, who spoke on condition of anonymity, downplayed the significance of the move for the terror group, stressing that Hamas's leadership abroad already spends much of its time in Turkey when they are not holding meetings in Qatar.
The departure of Hamas’s senior politburo from Doha was first reported by Israel's Kan public broadcaster.
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Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, center, and ministers of his government, right, meet with Hamas delegation led by Ismail Haniyeh, in Istanbul, Turkey, April 20, 2024.Turkish Presidency via AP
I konked out for three hours with the TV on, got back on FR, now I'm going to bed officially. :^)
Israel has a lot of well placed operatives in Turkey; Hamas needs to watch their six. I predict bad things for them there.
Yes, Turkey is a much easier place to operate than a high-rise hotel in Qatar.
Turkey must be booted from NATO even though her geographic position is all she really has.
Turkey supports terror just as long as it is not their own, home grown PKK movement.
Turkey yearns for the Ottoman Empire days all over again.
Erdoğan needs to decide, either he goes with the Islamic Brotherhood or Atatürk.
Well said
By now, essentially ALL arab countries hav EDC kicked out the palestinians.
Worthless scum to their brethren.
A trap for the turkeys in Turkey, most likely ?
Why is Turkey part of NATO?
Recall, Hamas was created as, and is, an arm of the Muslim Brotherhood.
A recent photograph taken 16 April 2014, which appeared in Turkey’s Humiyet Daily, shows an injured ISIL commander Abu Muhammad “allegedly receiving free treatment,” in Turkey’s Hatay State Hospital. It was reported that commander Muhammad was injured during fighting in Idlib, Syria. Two lawmakers from Turkey’s the opposition Republican People’s Party had the temerity to accuse the government of both “protecting and cooperating with jihadist militants of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and the al-Nusra Front.” The Turkish government government was quick to deny the claim.
The appearance of a wounded jihadist commander being treated in a Turkish hospital is a subtle reminder that Turkey is governed by a leading member of the Ikhwan al-Muslimun — the Muslim Brotherhood. It is also a reminder that to scratch a Muslim Brother a jihadist bleeds. While it is true that some Brothers, like Ikhwan ideologues Yusuf al-Qaradawi and Hasan al-Turabi, will take up the pen rather than take up arms in the movement to revive the Islamic Caliphate, both Ikhan intellectual and soldier are equally determined. And so too are the Ikhwan’s politicians, people like Erdogan of Turkey, Ghannouchi of Tunisia and Morsy of Egypt. Taken together, all are determined to re-create Islam’s Caliphate.
Members of the Ikhwan, from its founder Hasan al-Banna to Turkey’s Erdogan, have all been aware that terrorism can be a useful adjunct in the Islamist revolution. It has been used more frequently in that epoch of Arab history that is dated from the Muslim World’s rejection of Arab nationalism. Following the death of Nasser, its primary sponsor, in the nineteen seventies a plethora of jihadist branches sprang from the Ikhwan tree. Uniformally, the organizations rejected the Ikhwan’s evolutionary philosophy that had been forced on it by Nasser and then by Egypt’s powerful military caste.
” I predict bad things for them there.”
Recall the bruhaha when Indian intelligence was caught trying to murder someone in Canada? In general, when a country lets someone in those people are considered under the protection of that country. If another country kills them, it often has HUGE and sometimes exponential blowback. The recent assassinations in Iran are one example. Turkey has a lot of diplomatic heft in Europe and the US. If Israel kills its enemies in Turkey, the results may be detrimental for Israel. There are lots of ways to hurt an economy short of going kinetic. I think it very unlikely Israel will do anything obvious to people under Turkey’s protection.
“ I think it very unlikely Israel will do anything obvious to people under Turkey’s protection.”
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Time will tell.
Thanks...
Tell me again. Why is Turkey a NATO member state?
To prevent Turkey from becoming part of the Soviet Union.
Why is Turkeyiyiyi still in NATO since it acts against the interest of world peace?
Turkey also invaded Cyprus, owned by Greece for millennia. Savages and should not be in NATO.
I figured Erdogan would take in the Hamas and the Hezbollah terrorist leaders. He’s vying for his own version of a caliphate.
Not a fan of Weirdogan, but here he's trying to stay a step ahead -- with terrorist groups around, it's better for him to make sure they are dependent on him rather than Iran. Ultimately I don't think it'll work.
Regardless, Turkey's the cork in the bottle (although the Euridiots in charge in the EU have certainly doused themselves in petrol by force-feeding their citizens a bunch of jihadist 'refugees'), and whatever follows Erdogan will be worse.
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