Tag: Turkey
Trump approves largest-ever aid package to Israel, sets up showdown with Turkey over F-35s
U.S. President Donald Trump signed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) on Monday, which includes $550 million in assistance to Israel and temporarily halts the sale of F-35 fighter jets to Turkey. This comes...
Israel weighs measures to counter growing Turkish influence in Jerusalem
Israel’s National Security Council has drafted a list of possible measures to take against the Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TIKA) operating in eastern Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria and Gaza, due to concerns that...
Turkey’s President Erdoğan wins re-election, cementing his firm grip on power
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his Justice and Development Party (AKP) emerged victorious in the country’s first-ever dual presidential and parliamentary elections on Sunday, giving the Turkish leader sweeping executive powers and further...
Could Sunday’s election in Turkey be its last?
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s suffocating hold on power in Turkey, and the deterioration of the country’s democracy and Islamist-based foreign relations, is going to be tested in the national elections on June 24.
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Turkish prime minister terms Israel’s Eurovision win an ‘imperialistic ruse’
With the presidential and parliamentary elections in Turkey only a week away, Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim has found a new way of discrediting Israel in hopes to score political points: the Eurovision song...
A spirit of interfaith solidarity
Ramadan is not only a month for spiritual awakening that sees Muslims reaffirming and expressing their love for God through fasting, but also a month where people with different faiths, opinions, languages and ethnicities...
Turkish PM: State of Israel emulates Hitler and Mussolini
On May 18, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan participated, along with other senior politicians, in a pro-Palestinian rally in Istanbul. Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım said: “The administration of Israel, which emulates Hitler and...
Behind Erdoğan’s boycott threat against Israel
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is in the midst of one of his periodic bouts of Israel-hatred, lashing out at the Jewish state and its leaders with all the insults (“Nazi,” “apartheid,” “child-killers” and...
WATCH: Turkish political commentator incites against Jews: ‘We are slaves to them’
Turkish political commentator Hüseyin Güneş said “we are all slaves to the Jews,” who “control us economically.” In a May 17 interview on the Turkish Channel 9/Qanat TV, he said that the Turkish Jews...
Thanks to Erdogan, most Turks see Israel as enemy, not ally
The most concerning development in the current crisis between Israel and Turkey is the joint statement condemning Israel from President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s ruling Islamist party and the opposition Republican People’s Party. At the...