Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
“The president hasn’t shown a lot of inclination to put himself on a very risky course with respect to Iran,” said former U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter. But “I do worry about us getting into a tangle because we’re so wound up.”
Acting U.S. Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan told his Turkish counterpart in a June 6 letter that the pilots must leave the United States by July 31, and that training for new students will be halted.
“This shouldn’t surprise anyone following the Turkish purchase of the Russian defense systems,” said Diliman Abdulkader, director of the Kurdish Project at the Endowment for Middle East Truth. “The U.S. warned Turkey time and time again to cancel the purchase and abide by its NATO obligations. Turkey is choosing to play hardball.”
“At this point, [Turkish President Recep Tayyip] Erdoğan seems to be strongly committed to his deepening partnership with [Russian President Vladimir] Putin, and is unlikely to be swayed by Washington’s positive or negative incentives.”
The particular motive behind this Turkish clandestine interference has been assisting militant groups belonging to the Muslim Brotherhood and other radical organizations to destabilize political rivals.
Erdoğan rebukes Bolton about Syria and Kurds, saying he made a ‘serious mistake’
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan slammed U.S. National Security Advisor John Bolton on Tuesday for promising that Turkey will not attack the Kurds fighting the Islamic State in Syria.
“We are proud of you; the entire nation is proud of you,” the Israeli prime minister told them at a civil New Year event at the Tel Aviv Palmach Museum. “You belong to the most moral army on earth.”
Turkish president says he will ‘confront’ Israel, teach Jews a lesson
President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdoğan warned a group of Turkish youth that “Jews in Israel” beat Palestinian women and children, and that Turkey will confront them.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan went on the attack against Israel once again over the weekend, this time claiming that Israel murders innocent people in cold blood.
“Hamas is part of the Palestinian people, and we won’t accept any attempt to add it to the list of terror groups,” said Azzam al-Ahmed, a senior Fatah official.
The cover-up and now acknowledgment of the Saudi government’s role in the grizzly slaying of journalist Jamal Khashoggi has highlighted a significant power struggle between two regional foes—Saudi Arabia and Turkey—and threatening to cause further regional instability.
Reported discussions between the two countries are in the works five months after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan blamed Israel for its response to violent protests along the Gaza border, labeling the country as a “terrorist state” that commits “genocide.”
