Tag: Turkey
Jewish leaders who embraced Erdoğan should resign
Less than a month before Hamas launched the deadliest attack on Jews since the Holocaust, Israeli customs authorities discovered 16 tons of explosive material hidden in a shipment of construction supplies. Its origin was...
Erdoğan: Israel a ‘terrorist state,’ Hamas ‘resistance fighters’
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Wednesday called Israel a "terrorist state" and described Hamas terrorists as "resistance fighters."
Erdoğan claimed that Israel was attempting to eradicate all of the Gaza Strip and threatened to take steps...
Three Israelis held in Turkish prison on harassment charges
Three Israeli men have been held in a remote Turkish prison for over a week after a flight attendant accused them of sexual harassment, Hebrew media reported on Tuesday.
According to the family of one...
Erdoğan re-election as president would be boon to Islamists, say Turkish policy experts
Following a record-high turnout in last week’s Turkish presidential and parliamentary elections, incumbent President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is facing a runoff—his biggest political challenge since assuming office in 2014.
Michael Doran, senior fellow and director...
Turkish aid agency up to its old tricks in Jerusalem
The Israel-Turkey diplomatic thaw is paving the way for the Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TIKA) to resume its efforts to undermine Israeli sovereignty in eastern Jerusalem and boost Turkish influence in the city.
TIKA...
Turkish voters prefer Erdoğan’s faults
It turns out the reports on the impending end of the Erdoğan era were greatly exaggerated. Those who were hoping for a crushing defeat of the Turkish president in last week’s election had their...
Turkey’s 2023 elections: The beginning of the post-Erdoğan era?
General and presidential elections will be held in Turkey on May 14. The elections were brought forward by a month to avoid the pilgrimage to Mecca (the hajj), university entrance exams and the start of...
6.4-magnitude quake leaves several dead, hundreds injured in Turkey
Several people were killed and hundreds injured in Turkey on Monday by a 6.4-magnitude earthquake centered in the country’s Hatay province that was felt in Lebanon and Israel.
The country is still reeling from a...
JDC works with Turkey’s local community, global Jewry to bring relief to quake victims
After a week-and-a-half on broken ground in Turkey, Leora Wine, director of disaster response for the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC), thinks Turkey is still in transition from rescue to recovery.
“That’s why the...
IDF delegation lands in earthquake-stricken Turkey to set up field hospital
An Israel Defense Forces delegation arrived in Turkey on Wednesday morning to set up a field hospital in the wake of the massive earthquakes this week that have so far claimed the lives of more than...