[ April 24, 2024 ]
Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, invoked the Muslim “hadith” against Israel, a term commonly used by Hamas and other terror-tied groups to sanction the killing of Jews.
Erdogan made the proclamation during a party convention over the weekend.
And it came on the heels of President Donald Trump’s announced intent to move the U.S. Embassy to Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
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“[T]hose who think they own Jerusalem better know that tomorrow they won’t be able to hide behind trees,” Erdogan said, according to a translation by dissident Turkish journalist Abdullah Bozkurt. Last year, Erdogan shut down Bozkurt’s former newspaper, Today’s Zaman, which had Turkey’s largest circulation.
“[This is] a veiled threat of killing each and every Jew with a shocking reference to apocalyptic prophecy of tree story,” Bozkurt wrote.
The full hadith says: “The last hour would not come unless the Muslims will fight against the Jews, and the Muslims would kill them until the Jews would hide themselves behind a stone or a tree and a stone or a tree would say: ‘Muslim, or the servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me; come and kill him;’ but the tree Gharqad would not say, for it is the tree of the Jews.”
Erdogan invoked the passage during a Justice and Development Party (AKP) gathering on Sunday, just days after President Trump proclaimed Jerusalem to be Israel’s capital and pledged to move the US embassy there. Erdogan also accused Israel of being a terrorist state.
Under Erdogan, Turkey has harbored and funded Hamas terrorists, provided covert support to ISIS and other jihadists in Syria, and bombed civilians belonging to his own Kurdish minority.
But Erdogan is more interested in appealing to his base’s anti-Semitic sentiments than inspiring foreign jihadis to fight Israel, Bozkurt told the Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT) via Twitter. The dictator’s comments also distract the Turkish public from the New York trial of an Iranian gold trader named Reza Zarrab and Turkish banker Mehmet Hakan Atilla, who — witnesses testified — worked with Erdogan to circumvent oil sanctions against Iran, Bozkurt said.
“It is a noise that will distract [the] public from damaging revelations going on in the US federal court where [Erdogan] was exposed for what he is: Corrupt, sanction buster, greedy politician,” Bozkurt said.
Anti-Semitism has always been in the background in Turkish society, but Bozkurt said that this marks one of the first times that Turkey’s head of state has publicly been involved with fueling it.
The Turkish Youth Foundation (TUGVA), run by Erdogan’s son, Bilal, participated in anti-Israel and anti-US rallies calling on Muslims to unite against Trump’s Jerusalem announcement.
On Friday, protesters in Istanbul chanted slogans including, “Jerusalem is ours and will remain so,” “Down with America” and “Down with Israel.”
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13 Comments
6 years ago
This loser should curse his worthless prophet Mohammad for siding with the Jews instead.
6 years ago
He needs to be kicked out of NATO and if required blown up. He wants to rebuild caliphate like ISIS. Unlike Baghdai He just happens to wear a suit …..no other difference.
NATO member Turkey allows harvesting of organs from refugees and killing them in the process http://tinyurl.com/mfpzzl8
And that includes killing children too ! And even UN was aware of it for over 3 years but keeps blaming syrian govt !
6 years ago
Did you notice …. Erdogan was holding some green book .. and not even wearing those special little white gloves? He must be a polytheist.
6 years ago
A thought just struck me … I’ve never been one for turkey hunting. You paint your face up, wear all kinds of camouflage, inclusive of screening .. hats ‘n all .. then you sit against a tree for long hours, calling them in, sometimes with the use of decoys. Being more of an upland game hunting type, watching my dogs work .. and poppin’ a deer ‘r so … I just never really got into it. However, with erdogan … I just might have to try it .. “gobble, gobble, gobble, gobble … “Turkey Surprise”.
6 years ago
The Turk is reverting to type, suit and tie or not, a rabid Islamic hyena remains what it is and once again it’s struggling to it’s feet and mouthing off.
Keep an eye on Turkey, it has form over there and there are 70 million of them.
6 years ago
Turkish President Erdogan, like so many Islamists, is reality impaired. In November of 2014 he declared that the Apollo missions – the US moon-landings – were hoaxes. Addressing a global warming meeting in Izmir, Erdogan said the USA must finally admit that astronauts never landed on the moon and the landing was staged in Hollywood.
This utterly ridiculous story seems to have sucked in numerous trolls, conspiracy whackos and ignoramuses to join the NASA and America bashing.
Another Erdogan delusion is that Muslim explorers preceded Christopher Columbus in the discovery of the Americas by more than 300 years. “Contacts between Latin America and Islam date back to the 12th century. Muslims discovered America in 1178, not Christopher Columbus.”
Erdogan does not have an inferiority complex. Deep down he recognizes his and Islam’s actual inferiority.
What Erdogan does have is delusions of adequacy.
6 years ago
Reply to
Daniel FX Dravot
I believe Erdogan has been in power in Turkey for nearly 20 years as either president or PM.
6 years ago
Is it my imagination or does Erdie look a lot like Adolph?
6 years ago
So do you think Trump knew this before he made the statement about moving the US embassy to Jerusalem?
I don’t understand why the State Dept. (I believe they manage all consulates and embassies) doesn’t have to implement Trump’s policy. I can definitely understand why they don’t want to being nothing more than an agent of the totalitarian islamic world.
6 years ago
erdogan is one stupid turkey that is going to have his goose cooked by Israel.
6 years ago
All these Terrorist Leaders need to be assassinated.
6 years ago
Erdogan and Obama are pals. He and Soros told him say what he said.
D
6 years ago
Wonderful…another nut job rears its ugly head. To bad the coup did not work in my opinion.
