Turkey Prime Minister Erdoğan: “Hamas is not a terror organisation”
Breaking News – Turkey Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan says that Hamas is not a terror organization.
Turkey Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said in a speech to thousands of people in the Turkish city of Konya during a rally that he “does not see Hamas as a terror organization”.
How Israel, the United States and other European countries will react to this speech is unknown but it is sure to further deteriorate relations between Israel and Turkey.
Tensions had been in almost breaking point after an Aid Flotilla lead by the Turkish ship Blue Marmara was raided by Commandos belonging to the Israeli Defense Forces in which nine demonstrators were killed.
The Turkish Prime Minister who cut short his trip in Latin America to return to Turkey to deal with the issue condemned Israel’s actions and described it as a “bloody massacre”.
Israel, Japan, Canada, the United States and the governments of the European Union, identify Hamas as a terrorist organization.
The speech by the Turkish Prime Minister comes a day after eight of the dead from the Flotilla raid, all of Turkish origin were buried.
The coffins which were covered with Palestinian and Turkish flags were carried above shoulders with thousands of protesters chanting anti Israeli slogans in the victims cities of residents in Turkey.
Update – The Prime Minister also criticized the newspaper and news website columnists which compared the PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party), which is listed as a terror organization in many countries around the world, with Hamas.
To be updated…
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.The conflict tweeebn Israel and Palastan is a very troublesome one. Peace is long overdue. When a society treats other members of society like second class citizens, there’s bound to be a push-back. This is the case of Israel and Palastine. The Palastinians are being treated like second class citizens and they are angry! I’m certainly not saying that they are innocent. Certainly, plenty of poor policies and violence has taken place on both sides. FYI: Humas recently (right before this whole recent conflict) was willing to give Israel a portion of their land. Israel said, no go . We want that land AND the land stolen from Palistine. In other words, Huma’s was willing to negociate for a peaceful outsome and Israel wasn’t. Thus, the anger continues and so does the violence.If there is anything to learn from this stituation, it is that you can not try and kill the enemy in hope that you will prevail. Take a look at the current Iraq situation in which our administration thought that by trying to kill the enemy, it will wipe out the problem. Instead, the problem has only gotten worse and we are more unsafe because of it. This will be the case with Israel. Once this conflict has calmed down, they will discover that they have only added fuel to their problem of safety. It’s amazing what killing the innocent will do to a rational person. Killing innocent people while they have no way of escaping is NEVER the answer; and I fear that Israel will soon discover the errors of their ways in this situation.It’s time for the violence to stop. It’s time for some real negociations by both sides so that peace can finally be accmomplished.
Go Israel! The only country willing to stand up to these savages. And yet no matter what, they are always the bad guy. It’s almost as if US forgot 9/11.
Why Turky has banned YouTube and Google? what are you Iran?
why to prevent your own citizens the democratic rights to see the other sides? you blocked also Google translate because you dont want that the most of the peaple will translate the news from outside.
In that case, I suppose Mr Erdogan won’t mind Israel and others considering the PKK a national liberation movement. Further, my guess is that if Turkish Navy presence is to be stablished with the Gaza convoys, Israel should feel free to put its air force at the disposal of the Kurds. Am I right?
By supporting Hamas, turkey permits and gives legal rights to support PKK.
STOP KILLING KURDISH KIDS MR MURDER ERDUGAN,………….
NO MORE MURDERING ARMENIANS????
Turkey has to take the leadership role in the Muslim world, in particular in the Middle East, in order to achieve a balance of power for a lasting peace in the region.
Is he serious? This will far not help Palestinians who wants peace !