The U.S. regards Hamas as a terrorist group, at least officially. Turkey is a U.S. ally in NATO. One of these things will have to end eventually. The way things are going, the U.S. will likely drop the designation of Hamas as a terror group, and congratulate and thank Erdogan.
“Erdogan rebukes Greek PM for calling Hamas ‘terrorists,’ says 1,000+ members being treated in Turkey,” by Amberin Zaman, Al-Monitor, May 13, 2024:
Monday’s summit between Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, heralded as a milestone in improving ties between the historically hostile nations, was marked instead by Erdogan’s spirited defense of Hamas during a live press conference that followed their meeting in Ankara and his disclosure that over 1,000 Hamas members were being treated in Turkey.
“There is a very important issue on which we disagree,” Erdogan told the audience. “I do not see Hamas as a terror organization.”
Noting that Palestinian lands have been occupied since 1947, Erdogan said that “Hamas is a resistance group” that was “waging a struggle to protect” Palestinian lands. “If one calls Hamas that has lost 40,000 of its people a terrorist organization, this would be a heartless approach,” Erdogan added. He then dropped the bombshell: “As of this moment, I am following Hamas step by step, and there are more than 1,000 Hamas members who are all being treated in our hospitals. This is how we are doing things. … I cannot agree with your approach. This would be unfair,” Erdogan concluded. He did not explain how the Hamas militants had made their way to Turkey.
Media reports later cited Turkish officials claiming Erdogan misspoke regarding militants being treated in the country, but Ankara has yet to issue any official clarification.
Erdogan has sharply increased his verbal salvos against Israel since the March 31 local elections in which his ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) suffered heavy losses in part over what his pious base saw as the government’s wimpish stand on Gaza. Turkey has since formally scotched all trade with Israel, and on Sunday, Erdogan said Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had “reached a stage in genocide methods that even Hitler would envy.”
Erdogan’s latest comments came after Mitsotakis told the news conference that “particularly in the Middle East there are differences with Turkey.” Noting that Israel had entered Gaza after losing its citizens in a “terror” incident, and that Greece considered Hamas a “terrorist organization,” Mitsotakis said, “We know that Turkey sees things differently and has a different definition [of Hamas].” Mitsotakis continued, “nonetheless we agree on the need for the bloodshed to cease and for civilians in Gaza to be protected and that a land invasion of Rafah would be unacceptable.”
Mitsotakis handled Erdogan’s outburst skillfully, saying “let us agree to disagree.” But the exchange will have put something of a damper ahead of a state dinner that Erdogan is hosting in his Greek guest’s honor. It will not have helped that Mitsotakis rebuked Erdogan in his remarks for last week’s formal conversion of the Chora, an iconic Greek Orthodox Church, into a full-service mosque, calling it “unfortunate.” Erdogan retorted that “Turkey has set an example for all as a country that preserves its cultural heritage … the Chora Mosque is open to everybody with its new identity.”…
GE says
No end to Erdogan’s machinations.
This article shows his intentions.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/05/14/the-blue-homeland-of-turkey-threatens-war-against-greece/
somehistory says
Not only is he giving medical attention to his fellow ghouls, documents found in gaza by the Israelis shows that secret hamas establishments are either in Turkey already, or are in the planning stages.
The next thing will be a hamas stronghold in the U.S. will be in the planning stage…if it isn’t already. Its agents are certainly here…all across the country.
Mike says
The ranting, hateful, bigoted and benighted ERR-DOG-ANT looks exactly like Schikelgruber (A.Hitler) in that photograph.
He cannot get over the fact that he isn’t even one-tenth of the leader that Kemal Mustafa Attaturk was.
somehistory says
Yes, he does look a lot like the dead madman. Wonder what his blood pressure measures on an average day. Perhaps he’ll blow a gasket one day soon.
Mike says
Looking at him and listening to him, a number of fitting terms come to mind:
Bigot; Islamofascist; Jewhater; Fanatic; Zealot; Genocidaire; Reactionary; Chauvinst; Ultra-Militant; Radical; Crackpot; Wingnut; Screwball….the list goes on.
James Lincoln says
somehistory,
One thing that the Biden regime doesn’t understand is that devout muslims entering our country do not commit kinetic jihad immediately.
They plan – and wait for the perfect time and place.
somehistory says
totally correct, James. they have dates and places in mind, take trips, take photos, watch and wait until the time set has been reached.
they want the most deaths for their work.
James Lincoln says
Yes, somehistory.
Here in the United States, we are literally sitting on a time bomb.
Keys says
Curious how 1,000 wounded Hamas soldiers got to Turkish hospitals.
Did Israel allow their transport to Turkey? Did these wounded claim to be Gazan citizens, but not Hamas soldiers?
somehistory says
Perhaps when they took over the aid trucks, they used them to go to turkey. Perhaps wearing the full burkas, pretending to be wounded women.
Nabil Bissada says
Dr. Phil Show best answer
https://youtube.com/shorts/BCvuBRBP8-w?si=sxaexOerFk0IlU-P
mike says
to bad it’s not more
Greg says
And they can stay there!
rick says
Hamas “resists” first and foremost civilization. Second all females. Third all Jews. Four anyone who onjects to anything they say or do. Hamas is at its core a Nazi organization. Allah replaces the Fuhrer but they stand for the same thing. Oh, Erdogan, nice you took in 1,000 hamas. Now let’s see you do something really charitable and take in 2.5 Million Hamas from Gaza.
James Lincoln says
rick says,
“Hamas is at its core a Nazi organization. Allah replaces the Fuhrer but they stand for the same thing. ”
I hadn’t thought about it that way, but I believe that you’re correct.
Westman says
Uhh, if Turkey is all loving humanitarian and such, why do the Muslim migrants not head to Turkey instead of Cyprus and Europe? Why does Turkey get the terrorists?
Reziac says
Because moving to Turkey would not fulfill the Jihad of Migration, which requires Muslims to move to and claim new territory at every opportunity.
They understand that, even if the West does not.
So they get rid of their troublemakers, and Islam grows without the tedium and expense of a shooting war in which they might be defeated. Migration presently has no serious opposition.
Tho once they’re sufficiently ascendant, they’ll start the shooting war just because we’re infidels who must be forced “to pay the jizya with willing submission, and feel ourselves subdued”.
Westman says
Exactly.
Reziac says
Erdogan’s dream is to roll over Europe as the New Ottoman Empire.
He’s said as much.
Brian Ozzy says
The raving hypocrite Erdogan has been slaughtering Kurds for years with great abandon just because they would like a country of their own. They have a vastly greater right to one than the 70 year old Fakestinians will ever have. I bet his death toll far outstrips the Israeli’s but yet here the gibbering idiot is castigating them.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
I laud the Greek PM for calling Hamas terrorists. The next thing they should do is kick out every Pali, Paki, Turk & other muslims from their land, and fortify their Aegean islands, so that Turkey can’t invade
I hope that once Trump comes to power, he brings back the Saudis & other Arab allies, while isolating Qatar and Turkey. In fact, he should use Turkey’s behavior to make the case for the US leaving NATO
OLD GUY says
Erdogan is nothing but a political terrorist leading Turkey down a dark path.
Levy says
This is what happens with the agreement of Antony, Blinken and Joe Biden
President and one is a fanatic member of the Muslim brotherhood
He is ongoing, threatening Europe to release more of the Syrian refugees into Europe, like he has done in 2015
President. Everyone is a very dangerous man and he should be treated like one.
As long as the US is pleasing terrorists, why should he act differently?