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Israel: Turkey Will Become Mideast ‘Superpower’

06/20/2012 Leave a comment Go to comments

By Rachel Hirshfeld, INN – “Israel needs to come to terms with Turkey’s superpower status in the Middle East, Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Shaul Mofaz said during a recent speech at the Washington Institute.

Mofaz highlighted the importance of mending diplomatic relations between the two countries, saying that doing so is ‘necessary for the strategic goals of Israel and for the strategic goals of Turkey.’

Turkey will become a ‘superpower in our region… There is no question about it,’ Mofaz stated. ‘We should have a strategic relationship with Turkey like we had in the past.’

Relations between the two countries had been becoming increasingly colder due to Erdogan’s policies, and Turkey supported the illegal Gaza flotilla of May 2010, which was an attempt to break Israel’s lawfully instituted naval blockade of Gaza. Israeli naval commandos boarded one of the flotilla ships, the Mavi Marmara, intending to divert the vessel in a peaceful manner, but were violently attacked by those aboard. Nine passengers were killed in the ensuing battle.

Turkey issued an indictment seeking life sentences for former IDF chief of staff Lt.-Gen. (res.) Gabi Ashkenazi and three other former senior commanders over their alleged involvement in the operation.” Read more.

Flashback: Turkey Wants to Revive Ottoman Empire – “A hundred years after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, Turkey is re-emerging on the international arena. Furthermore, it intends to regain the ground lost in the 19th-20th centuries, which is a direct threat to the interests of all the neighboring countries, including Russia.
 Consider the actions of the Turkish leadership during the past weeks that have caused serious concerns in Israel, Syria, Iraq, Iran and the EU.” Read more.

Flashback: Turkey to Double Size of Its Army – “With Prime Minister Erdogan’s Islamist AK party having seized its third landslide election victory in Turkey, many throughout the international community have been watching to see what will be next on the Turkish agenda. Now there are strong indicators in the Turkish media that Turkey is planning on literally doubling the size of its army – this coming from the nation that already has the largest army in Middle East and the second-largest army in NATO, second only to the United States.” Read more.

Flashback: Turkish Prime Minister Erdoğan — The Man Who Could Trigger a World War – “The greatest threat to the world’s peace, at this moment, comes from a man named Recip Tayyip Erdogan. He is the prime minister of Turkey, at the head of the Justice and Development Party (‘AK,’ from the Turkish). A former mayor of Istanbul, he was arrested and jailed when he publicly recited Islamist verses (‘the mosques are our barracks, the domes our helmets, the minarets are our bayonets,’ etc.), in defiance of the old secularist, Ataturk constitution, which made it an offence to incite religious and racial fanaticism… The West is just watching, while Erdogan creates pretexts for another Middle Eastern war: one in which Israel may be pitted not only against the neighbouring states of the old Arab League, but also Turkey, and Iran, and Hamas, and Hezbollah.” Read more.
Categories: Anything Else, Radical Islam, Wars and Rumors of War
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    Willard
    06/21/2012 at 4:55 PM
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    Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has called for Fethullah Gülen, the reclusive imam of arguably the most powerful Islamist movement in the world, to return home to Turkey from his self-imposed exile in rural Pennsylvania

    http://www.prophecynewswatch.com/2012/June20/204.html

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