Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday during a speech at the parliament that Hamas cannot be described as a terror group since its members were merely “defending their land” in their murderous assault against Israel.
“Hamas is not a terrorist organization, it is a liberation group, ‘mujahideen’ waging a battle to protect its lands and people,” he told lawmakers from his ruling AK Party, using an Arabic word denoting those who fight for their faith.
He received a standing ovation for his words.
Erdogan also described Israel’s action in Gaza as one of the “bloodiest, most disgusting and most savage attack in history.”
“We have no problem with the Israeli state, but we never have, and never will, accept the atrocities committed by Israel and the fact that it acts as an organization rather than a state,” he said.
He also said he is canceling his trip to Israel due to the “inhumane war.”
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Israel Foreign Ministry spokesman Lior Haiat released the following statement in response:
Israel wholeheartedly rejects the Turkish President’s harsh words about the terrorist organization Hamas. Hamas is a despicable terrorist organization worse than ISIS that brutally and intentionally murders babies, children, women and the elderly, takes civilians hostage and uses its own people as human shields. Even the Turkish president’s attempt to defend the terrorist organization and his inciting words will not change the horrors that the whole world has seen and the unequivocal fact: Hamas = ISIS
Erdogan’s comments drew a swift rebuke from Italy’s Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini, who said they were “grave and disgusting and did not help with de-escalation”. He urged Italy’s foreign minister to lodge a formal protest with Ankara.
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Ungrateful dictator. Israel rushes rescue and medical crews to Turkey after their earthquake and he has no problem spewing open, despicable and brazen lies. Imagine, this ninconpoop is considered a leader aligned with the western world. YM”SH!
It’s hard to know if this is what the Turkish president really believes or is just saying it to survive politically but either way it goes to show you their true colors and that can never trust these so called moderate Muslim Arab leaders. Israel invested so much in trying to warm relations with Turkey, not to mention the immeasurable help they gave them recently when they had that powerful earthquake and yet they are so quick to forget everything when it’s a question of taking the side of Israel vs Hamas…
And it’s the same with Jordan and UAE and the rest of the bunch…
YES! WILD TURKEY!
Turkey is proof that even “moderate” Islamic societies are incompatible with Western culture. This is a modern war of civilization vs barbarism.
what else is new?
Next thing he will say will be “HAMAS is a humanitarian organization”.
What land were they defending? Israel is not their land.
HAMAS should go and defend Gehinom. That’s where they belong. That is their land.
Remember what he said for the future. The next time Turkey gets hit with an earthquake…. who will help?
turkey picked up on hamas ect.s message they showed from music festival, if you have anything to do with israel you are a target!!!
Wild Turkey, indeed. Let’s talk turkey:
So much for the so-called “moderate” Muslim nation leadership, now they are showing their true colors.
Someone should ask President Erdogan if PKK terrorists massacred 1400 Turks how he would react if leaders in other Muslim nations would label them “Mujahadeen liberators” who are “protecting their lands and people”. At any rate no doubt he would retaliate full force without giving a hoot about “international law” and “humanitarian values” on which Israel is held to such strict scrutiny by friend and foe alike.
It must be understood that Turkey is not Yemen, we are talking about a full-fledged NATO member with eligibility to join the EU (it has only thus far met about half the requirements for membership). Inasmuch both Turkey and the US are members of the NATO alliance, the US is required to fully defend and lay lives of its own soldiers down for Turkey in the event of an attack. Yet the President of Turkey has blatantly not only condoned but praised (to a standing ovation of the Turkish parliament) a terrorist massacre by Hamas, a radical Islamic death cult.
Furthermore, what is being liberated? Israel pulled out of Gaza almost twenty years ago. Clearly this is not a liberation of the “people and lands” of Gaza, but Israel proper. So we have a leader of a NATO alliance nation condoning terrorist massacres and incursions on Israel, a sovereign democratic nation. Shouldn’t there be at least “epes” some kind of “censure” by NATO?
Hold the cranberry sauce, please.