Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
The secret of Iran’s intelligence “success” is its use of criminal organizations to kidnap exiled political activists and journalists around the world and transfer them to Iran for execution.
“This wouldn’t be the first time in the past decade that the Turkish Parliament has approved the deployment of a significant military force. It’s already happened in Iraq, Syria and Libya,” says Dr. Hay Eytan Cohen Yanarocak.
The president is not only a leader with an Islamist ideology, but a realpolitik player. Turkey is in Iraq and Syria, and has a military base in Qatar and in Somalia. It is now busy in Libya.
Experts weigh in on the upcoming election for the leadership of the terror organization’s political wing, which could have major ramifications for Israel.
France joins military exercises in the eastern Mediterranean along with Italy, Greece and Cyprus amid the growing tensions with Ankara over energy resources.
Turkey supports Hamas and has given citizenship to its members.
Saleh al-Arouri, who attended the meeting in Istanbul, calls his organization’s abduction and murder of three Israeli teens in 2014 a “heroic operation.”
Church leaders in Greece and the United States announced a “day of mourning” over the transformation.
The Turkish president reciprocated by expressing support for the Palestinian cause.
The question is whether Turkey’s increasingly Islamist domestic and foreign policies, coupled with continued negative repercussions from the Hagia Sophia fallout, will cause voters to turn him out of power in the next elections, which are scheduled for 2023.
Erdoğan: Hagia Sophia ‘resurrection’ harbinger for Al-Aqsa ‘liberation’
The Turkish president, who often invokes the mosque on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem to rally the Islamic world, has aroused ire for his conversion of Istanbul’s ancient church into a Muslim house of worship.
In an Eid al-Fitr message, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan says Jerusalem’s Temple Mount is a “red line” for all Muslims.
