And Erdogan has made it clear that he would love to do so, and that he considers territories that the Ottoman Empire once ruled to belong by right to Turkey today. Whether he will act upon this with a direct attack on Israel is unlikely, but Israel is certainly on his wish list.
“Turkey Threatens: Capable of Invading Tel Aviv Within 72 Hours,” Maakav, April 9, 2025 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
A serious threat was heard yesterday from Turkey when Hakan Bayrakci, head of the “Sonar” research institute, declared during an interview on Turkish television that the Turkish army is capable of invading Tel Aviv within 72 hours. The harsh statement surprised even the interviewer, journalist Ahmet Hakan, who reacted with astonishment and said to Bayrakci: “Leave it, brother, don’t say that”.
Later in the interview, Bayrakci tried to calm the situation, but repeated the surprising claim. “I don’t want confrontations, I would never want such a headache, but here – perhaps people won’t believe me – the Turkish army is capable of penetrating Tel Aviv within 72 hours,” he said. These statements come at a time when relations between Israel and Turkey are in ongoing tension, especially in light of the war in the Gaza Strip.
This exceptional Turkish threat comes against the backdrop of reports about contacts precisely aimed at improving coordination between the countries. The “Middle East Eye” website reported yesterday that Israel and Turkey are conducting direct talks in an attempt to establish a permanent military coordination channel in Syria, aimed at preventing friction and military escalation between the two countries.
The site also reported that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made it clear to security officials that Israel has a “short window of opportunity” to act against bases in Syria before Turkey takes control of them and places its systems there. This information indicates that Israel is concerned about the strengthening of the Turkish presence in Syria and the possibility that this will limit Israel’s freedom of operation in the region.
The “Sonar” research institute headed by Bayrakci is considered an influential body in Turkey, although it has no official authority in making security or military decisions in the country. Nevertheless, the harsh statements made by Bayrakci reflect the mood in certain parts of the Turkish discourse towards Israel….
Jack Reynolds says
The Arabs know what the Turks refuse to admit.
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DNA testing has proven CONCLUSIVELY that Turks are just Greeks who were forced to change their Religion and Language.
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No one is surprised that they want to join the EU.
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Tony Rice says
Yeah, but the E U doesn’t want them. 75-80 million more Muslims, no thank you
࿗Infidel࿘ says
One would be surprised, given the millions of muslims that have poured into Europe since 2014, and how the EU has blacklisted any country that dared say no to them. So much so that only Hungary & Poland have resisted
James Lincoln says
Yes, Infidel.
That’s why Poland and Hungary are still worth visiting.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
I don’t doubt that Turkey might try it, if they saw an opening. What I wonder is – whether NATO (excluding the US) would join Turkey in that project? As it is, many of the NATO members, like France and now Britain, are pretty hostile to Israel, so I wouldn’t put it past them
James Lincoln says
According to the feature article:
“…Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made it clear to security officials that Israel has a “short window of opportunity” to act against bases in Syria…”
Recommendation:
Act now.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Precisely! And not just now: if Turkey tries to establish any military bases in Syria, Israel should do exactly what it did to similar attempts by Iran – blow them up. President Trump told Prime Minister Netanyahu to tell him if he has any issues w/ Turkey. Netanyahu should tell him that Turkish military bases in Syria are as unacceptable as Iranian bases there, and that Syria should be a demilitarized zone b/w Turkey and Israel
James Lincoln says
Agree, Infidel.
GE says
Don’t put anything past Erdogan—
Erdogan was born February 26, 1954 in a poor neighborhood of Constantinople known as Kasimpasa. He was ridiculed in school and during his political career for his mother’s LAZ (Georgian Sunni Muslim) origins, once railing at a member of Turkish parliament, “What haven’t people called me? They said I am a Georgian, and even uglier, an Armenian. But I am a Turk.”
Erdogan’s family was no fan of secularism, and he was enrolled in Imam Hatip School where he was exposed to the ideologies of the Muslim brotherhood, providing him with his vision of the great Islamic Turkish umma where secularism was anathema to the true Muslim believer.
Practicing taquiya, he avoided the wrath of secularists and pretended to show respect for democratic principles and climbed the political ladder.
In 2017, after consolidating power as president, he launched a new era of ruling Turkey by presidential decrees. Now Turkey was a continuation of the Ottoman Empire.
Much of this information is from the article “Artsakh:
The Inadequate Response.
I could continue with the Snake’s machinations in Lebanon, Syria, Afghanistan, and Armenia, but I didn’t want to go on for too long—
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Thank you for this detailed background about Erdogan. We hear a lot about Putin being ex-KGB, or Ahmad al-Shara’a being ex-al Qaeda, but we hear nothing about Erdogan’s past
The way he is a Turk – Turks totally discount any maternal ancestry, and simply trace their dads back to the deserts of Turkmenistan, which was where the Seljuq conquerors of Anatolia originated
Greg says
🐎🏒!!
࿗Infidel࿘ says
More like 🐎💩
JDow says
Unfortunately for this turd the IDF can be in Turkey within 24 hours. So…. Stand off – maybe?
{^_-}
Jana says
What about NATO and Wahhabi Europe? That I don’t even write about Jolani and Hamas. Let’s say Wahhabi Albania
Zhana says
Even faster, starting with Hamas, then Jolani strikes from the other side, and finally Erdogan’s NATO army arrives.
ISIS Toyotas says
Yes, it is possible if there are Jolani and Hamas and ISIS Toyotas on the team.
Jana says
Did he mean just the Turkish NATO army or also Hamas and Jolani’s ISIS? In any case, Trump would intervene after 80 hours and then the US army would search for the kidnapped Israeli girls.
Nikolina says
Stevan Sinđelić (Serbian Cyrillic: Стеван Синђелић; 1771 – 19 May 1809) was a Serbian revolutionary commander in Resava, who fought during the First Serbian Uprising (1804–1813) against Ottoman rule. As the commander of the Resava Brigade, he fought in many battles and skirmishes against Ottoman foot-soldiers, including the Battle of Ivankovac in 1805 and the Battle of Deligrad in 1806. He is remembered for his actions during the Battle of Čegar Hill in 1809, in which he and the Resava Brigade found themselves surrounded by the Ottomans. Encircled and without much chance of survival, Sinđelić ignited the gunpowder kegs in the powder cave, creating an enormous explosion that killed him, along with all of the Serbian and Ottoman soldiers in his trench.
Early life
Stevan Rakić was born in 1771,[1] in the village of Grabovac[2] in the Morava Okrug, Ottoman Smederevo (in present-day Svilajnac, Serbia). His father, zanatlija (craftsman) Radovan Rakić, died at a young age and his mother Sinđelija later remarried. People called him by the matronymic Sinđelić.
Before the Serbian Uprising, he worked for Duke Petar in Resava, whom the dahi murdered during the Slaughter of the Dukes massacre that would spark the revolution.[3] Long before the start of the Uprising, Karađorđe Petrović, when traveling cross the Velika Morava, met with Sinđelić and discussed the revolution with him. Later, Sinđelić gathered people from the Resava region to take part in the Uprising against the Ottoman government. He was notified directly as Karađorđe Petrović was chosen to lead the Uprising, proclaimed on 14 February 1804.[4]
First Serbian Uprising
Steven Sinđelić, at the beginning of the First Serbian Uprising in 1804, formed a military unit with other peasants in the Resava region. The Ottoman garrison, which was located in Ćuprija, immediately moved to crush the Serb revolutionaries. Sinđelić was informed of the Ottomans’ actions by a spy and maneuvered his forces between the towns of Svilajnac and Ćuprija. The Ottomans were defeated.
Afterwards, Sinđelić fought in the Battle of Ivankovac (1805) with Milenko Stojković and Petar Dobrnjac, where the combined forces of the three military commanders defeated Ottoman General Hafis Pasha. In Ivankovac, Sinđelić proved himself as a good and capable military leader and he was subsequently appointed to be the Commander of the Resava Infantry Brigade by Karađorđe Petrović who was the commander-in-chief of the Serbian Revolutionary Army.
Sinđelić later fought the Ottomans in a guerrilla campaign in the Morava Valley and his forces liberated the towns of Ćuprija, Paraćin, Ražanj and many areas that were located just north of Deligrad. There, the Serbian forces became entrenched. They were awaited by the large Army of Ottoman Commander Huršid Pasha whose forces were stationed in the Niš Fortress.
Sinđelić at Čegar Hill, by Pavle Čortanović.
Bust.
Stevan’s Brigade fought the Ottomans in areas that were located south of the city of Niš. His detachment became entrenched in the village of Kamenica on Čegar hill, not far from the Ottoman front-line. The Serbs then launched several attacks against the Niš Fortress, but each time they were repulsed by the numerically superior Ottomans. After a two-month-long struggle, the Ottomans engaged in a counter-attack against the Serb positions on 19 May 1809 (N.S. 31 May). Sinđelić and his Brigade became separated from the remainder of the Serb guerrilla positions and he and his men resisted fiercely. With hundreds of Ottoman soldiers pouring into the trench, Sinđelić saw that his Brigade had little hope of staving off the Ottoman offensive. Hand-to-hand combat ensued in the trenches. Sinđelić decided to fire his flintlock pistol into a pile of gunpowder kegs. When the Ottomans swarmed the trench from all sides and headed for him, Sinđelić squeezed the trigger. The Serbs who remained in the trench with Sinđelić, as well as the attacking Ottomans, were all caught in the enormous explosion and perished. According to legend his famous last words were: “Save yourselves brothers, who wants and who can! Those who stay will die!”. The fall of Sinđelić’s trench forced the other units of the Serbian Revolutionary Army to retreat back to the town of Deligrad, where they entrenched themselves in a new, fortified front line.
It is estimated that over 6,000 Ottoman troops were killed during the explosion along with the surviving Serb revolutionaries (those who did not manage to escape the explosion, including Sinđelić).
Some 3,000 revolutionaries and all of the Ottoman troops that were present were killed in the Battle of Čegar at Čegar Hill.[5] The Ottomans, following orders given by Hurşid Paşa of Niš, erected the famous Skull Tower (Ćele-Kula) on the road to Constantinople, containing 952 Serbian revolutionaries’ skulls, as a warning to the Serbs and other Balkan peoples about any future dissent. Today, 57 skulls remain embedded into the walls of the Skull Tower in Niš.
See also
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References
Читанка Првог српског устанка, Горњи Милановац 2003. стр. 23.
Блиц онлајн:Чувају успомену на Стевана Синђелића. Анита Ђикић, 22. јануара 2010. Приступ 19. мај 2011 Archived 2013-11-11 at the Wayback Machine
Leopold von Ranke, History of Serbia and the Serbian Revolution, pp. 119-120.
History of the Balkans: Eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, p. 196
Lazarovich-Hrebelianovich, Stephen and Eleanor Mulda Calhoun Lazarovich-Hrebelianovich, The Servian people (Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1910).
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James Lincoln says
Turkey would be crazy to invade Israel.