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A Zionist in disguise: Turkey's Prime Minister Erdogan's phony anti-Israel
rhetoricBy Cem Ertür
Global Research, November 30, 2012
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/11/30/18726804.php
[image: israel]
Propaganda alert compiled by Cem Ertür
Mr Erdogan's Cairo visit took place in the midst of Israel's eight-day
war
on Gaza. Notwithstanding his habitual posturing over Israel's war crimes,
the focal point of his speech at the Cairo University was Syria:
`This carnage the Syrian people have been subjected to, is a disgrace not
only to the Syrian Regime, but also for the international community and the
entire humanity.' [1]
The fact remains that for the past 20 years, Turkey, Israel and NATO have
maintained a high level of military and political cooperation against Iraq,
Iran, Syria and the resistance groups in Palestine and Lebanon.
Furthermore, since April 2011, Mr Erdogan's government has been thoroughly
complicit in NATO's war crimes in Syria.
Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Israeli Prime Minister
Ehud Olmert, Ankara, 22 December 2008
Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Israeli Prime Minister
Ehud Olmert (2006-2009), Ankara, 22 December 2008
Five days after Mr Olmert's meeting with Mr Erdogan, Israel launched a war
on Gaza. Towards the end of the three-week-long war, in a speech at his
party's parliamentary group meeting, Mr Erdogan said:
`The Greater Middle East Project was an initiative launched with a view to
[bringing] peace to the Middle East as well as promoting its economic
development, civil rights, women's rights and freedom of education and
carrying these rights further. Turkey was given a role in this project and
we have accepted .' [3]
After the ceasefire, Mr Erdogan had a world-famous `outburst' at the
Israeli President Peres during the World Economic Forum. [4] Only two
weeks later, he made the following remarks in an interview with the Turkish
daily Sabah:
`Our relations with Israel continue based on mutual interests. Those who
leave the table in fury return to it with losses. Some have suggested that
we end Israeli [Air Force] training flights in Konya (). The truth is that
not just Israel but ten countries pay to receive flight training in Konya.
Indeed, our General Staff also announced that relations with Israel will
continue in accordance with Turkey's interests. Military contracts and
orders also remain in force. There are many agreements with Israel, old and
new. These all remain in force. We have to be very careful in interstate
relations. The Israeli state and the Israeli people are separate issues. I
always say that anti-Semitism is a crime against humanity.' [5]
() Mr Erdogan refers to the `Anatolian Eagle' joint air force exercises
in central Turkey, which started in June 2001 with the participation of the
United States, Turkey and Israel.
Israeli President Shimon Peres toasts with Turkey's President Abdullah Gul
and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan during their official dinner in
Ankara, 12 November 2007
Israeli President Shimon Peres toasts with Turkey's President Abdullah Gul
and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan at a dinner in his honour, Cankaya
presidential residence, Ankara, 12 November 2007
`I thanked Mr Peres for his efforts to defeat a bill in the US House of
Representatives that defines the incidents of 1915 from an Armenian
perspective. I sincerely hope that Peres' visit to Ankara will contribute
to peace in the Middle East. The speeches to be delivered by Peres and
Palestinian President [sic] Mahmoud Abbas at the Turkish parliament on
Tuesday will contribute to peace in the Middle East.' [2]
Two months before President Peres' visit, in an ultimate act of war,
Israeli jets used Turkey's airspace to launch a bombing raid on the Syrian
territory. To this day, Mr Erdogan has remained silent about this incident.
Turkey's PM Erdogan receives the ADL's `Courage to Care' award from ADL
National Director Abraham Foxman, ADL headquarters, New York, 10 June 2005
Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan receives Anti-Defamation
League's (ADL) `Courage to Care' award from ADL's director Abraham
Foxman
at the ADL headquarters, New York, 10 June 2005
In accepting an award from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on behalf of
[Turkey's] diplomats who saved Jews during the Holocaust, Turkish Prime
Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan strongly condemned anti-Semitism and stressed
his country's close relationship with the modern State of Israel. [6]
On the same day, Mr Erdogan conducted an interview with the New York Times:
'Turkey cannot in any way approve of oppressive regimes, and at this point
there is nothing Turkey can take as an example from Syria, while there is
lots that Syria can take as examples from Turkey.' [7]
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Turkey's Prime Minister Recep
Tayyip Erdogan, Jerusalem, 1 May 2005
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon (2001-2006) and Turkey's Prime Minister
Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Jerusalem, 1 May 2005
Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan invited Prime Minister Sharon to visit
Turkey. [=85] Erdogan said that the Turkish government views anti-Semitism
as a crime against humanity. [8] Ahead of a meeting with his Israeli
counterpart Ariel Sharon, Erdogan held talks with President Moshe Katsav
[2000-2007] [...] `We have to drain the swamp of terrorism. We have to
show solidarity in our common war against terrorism,' Erdogan was quoted
as
saying in a statement issued by Katsav's office. [9]
Back in October 2002, in a campaign speech delivered six month prior to his
first electoral win, Mr Erdogan said:
`Sharon is unleashing state terrorism upon Palestine. Sharon must be
prosecuted just like Milosevic was [at the International Criminal Court] in
The Hague.' [10]
Turkey's PM Erdogan receives the ADL's `Courage to Care' award from ADL
National Director Abraham Foxman, ADL headquarters, New York, 10 June 2005
Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan receives the `Profiles in
Courage' award from American Jewish Congress (AJC) President Jack Rosen,
HSBC headquarters in New York, 26 January 2004. The person standing next to
Mr Rosen is the President and Chief Executive Officer of HSBC USA Martin
Glynn.
In his acceptance speech, Mr Erdogan echoed U.S. President George Bush and
UK Prime Minister Tony Blair [11]:
`Today, with the presentation of the `Profile of Courage' award to the
Turkish Prime Minister of the Republic of Turkey, by the American Jewish
Congress at the New York building of HSBC, there is a strong message being
conveyed to archaic terrorist mentality. We will not tolerate terrorism and
we will act in solidarity to wipe it from the face of the earth. Our
country is against all kinds of terrorism and we support the United States
in its efforts in combating international terrorism whole-heartedly.' [12]
Targeting two synagogues, HSBC bank headquarters and the British Embassy,
the November 2003 bomb attacks in Istanbul bear the hallmarks of an Al
Qaeda false-flag operation. Furthermore, only three months ago, two
suspects and the solicitor of the alleged mastermind were killed in Aleppo
whilst fighting NATO's proxy war against the Syrian Army. [13]
A report published a month before the Istanbul bombings indicates the
actual motive behind the ADL award:
The Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA), an influential
Jewish group based in Washington, praised the Turkish Parliament's decision
[on October 7th, 2003] to allow the deployment of peacekeepers [i.e.
troops] in Iraq and said the move boosted U.S. confidence in Turkey. That
might also give a privileged position to Turkey in garnering contracts in
the reconstruction of Iraq, the institute said in a statement. [14]
notes:
American Jewish Congress (AJC), Anti-Defamation League's (ADL) and
Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA) are all prominent
Zionist organisations in the United States.
The quotes from the Turkish sources have been translated by Cem Ertür.
sources:
[1] Erdogan: Er ya da gec katledilen o masum yavrucaklarin hesabi mutlaka
ama mutlaka sorulacaktir
[Erdogan: Sooner or later there will be a holding to account for the
massacre of these innocent children]
Milliyet, 17 November 2012
http://siyaset.milliyet.com.tr/erdogan-er-ya-da-gec-katledilen-o-masum-yavrucaklarin-hesabi-mutlaka-ama-mutlaka-sorulacaktir/siyaset/siyasetdetay/17.11.2012/1628623/default.htm
[2] Turkish premier, Israeli president agree cooperation needed in region
BBC Monitoring European, 13 November 2007
[3] AK Parti Grup Baskani ve Basbakan Sayin Recep Tayyip Erdogan'in 13 Ocak
2009 Tarihli Grup Konusmasi
[Speech delivered by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the Justice and
Development Party's parliamentary group meeting on January 13th, 2009]
AK Parti website, 13 January 2009
[4] Dialogue between Erdogan and Peres
Hurriyet Daily News, 30 Janaury 2009
http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/english/domestic/10895599.asp?scr=1
[5] Ties with Israel continue to be based on mutual interests - Turkish
PM
BBC Monitoring European, 16 February 2009
link to the original source in Turkish:
http://www.sabah.com.tr/Yazarlar/safak/2009/02/15/Davos_secim_degil_tarih_malzemesi
[6] Prime Minister Erdogan Tells ADL That `Anti-Semitism Has No Place in
Turkey'
ADL website, 10 June 2005
http://www.adl.org/PresRele/ASInt_13/4730_13.htm
[7] Turkish Leader Spells Out More Vigorous Role in Iraq
by Warren Hoge, New York Times, 11 June 2005
http://travel.nytimes.com/2005/06/11/international/europe/11erdogan.html
[8] PM Sharon met with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan
[Israeli] Prime Minister's Office, 1 May 2005
[9] Erdogan says Turkey, Israel must unite to drain `swamp of terror'
AFP, 1 May 2005
[10] Saron Lahey'de yargilansin
[Sharon must be prosecuted at The Hague]
Yeni Safak, 14 April 2002
http://yenisafak.com.tr/arsiv/2002/nisan/14/politika.html
[11] President Bush, Prime Minister Hold Joint Press Conference
U.S. Department of State website, 20 November 2003
http://2001-2009.state.gov/p/eur/rls/rm/2003/26458.htm
[12] Turkish PM to AJC Congress: We will wipe terrorism from the face of
the earth
American Jewish Congress website, 27 January 2004
http://www.ajcongress.org/site/PageServer?pagename=jan04_04
[13] Here are Tayyip's `real sons'
Sendika.org, 17 August 2012
http://www.sendika.org/yazi.php?yazi_no=47187
[14] US Jewish group praises Turkish decision to send troops to Iraq
Turkish Daily News, 11 October 2003
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/default.aspx?pageid=438&n=us-jewish-group-praises-turkish-decision-to-send-troops-to-iraq-2003-10-11
rhetoricBy Cem Ertür
Global Research, November 30, 2012
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/11/30/18726804.php
[image: israel]
Propaganda alert compiled by Cem Ertür
Mr Erdogan's Cairo visit took place in the midst of Israel's eight-day
war
on Gaza. Notwithstanding his habitual posturing over Israel's war crimes,
the focal point of his speech at the Cairo University was Syria:
`This carnage the Syrian people have been subjected to, is a disgrace not
only to the Syrian Regime, but also for the international community and the
entire humanity.' [1]
The fact remains that for the past 20 years, Turkey, Israel and NATO have
maintained a high level of military and political cooperation against Iraq,
Iran, Syria and the resistance groups in Palestine and Lebanon.
Furthermore, since April 2011, Mr Erdogan's government has been thoroughly
complicit in NATO's war crimes in Syria.
Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Israeli Prime Minister
Ehud Olmert, Ankara, 22 December 2008
Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Israeli Prime Minister
Ehud Olmert (2006-2009), Ankara, 22 December 2008
Five days after Mr Olmert's meeting with Mr Erdogan, Israel launched a war
on Gaza. Towards the end of the three-week-long war, in a speech at his
party's parliamentary group meeting, Mr Erdogan said:
`The Greater Middle East Project was an initiative launched with a view to
[bringing] peace to the Middle East as well as promoting its economic
development, civil rights, women's rights and freedom of education and
carrying these rights further. Turkey was given a role in this project and
we have accepted .' [3]
After the ceasefire, Mr Erdogan had a world-famous `outburst' at the
Israeli President Peres during the World Economic Forum. [4] Only two
weeks later, he made the following remarks in an interview with the Turkish
daily Sabah:
`Our relations with Israel continue based on mutual interests. Those who
leave the table in fury return to it with losses. Some have suggested that
we end Israeli [Air Force] training flights in Konya (). The truth is that
not just Israel but ten countries pay to receive flight training in Konya.
Indeed, our General Staff also announced that relations with Israel will
continue in accordance with Turkey's interests. Military contracts and
orders also remain in force. There are many agreements with Israel, old and
new. These all remain in force. We have to be very careful in interstate
relations. The Israeli state and the Israeli people are separate issues. I
always say that anti-Semitism is a crime against humanity.' [5]
() Mr Erdogan refers to the `Anatolian Eagle' joint air force exercises
in central Turkey, which started in June 2001 with the participation of the
United States, Turkey and Israel.
Israeli President Shimon Peres toasts with Turkey's President Abdullah Gul
and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan during their official dinner in
Ankara, 12 November 2007
Israeli President Shimon Peres toasts with Turkey's President Abdullah Gul
and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan at a dinner in his honour, Cankaya
presidential residence, Ankara, 12 November 2007
`I thanked Mr Peres for his efforts to defeat a bill in the US House of
Representatives that defines the incidents of 1915 from an Armenian
perspective. I sincerely hope that Peres' visit to Ankara will contribute
to peace in the Middle East. The speeches to be delivered by Peres and
Palestinian President [sic] Mahmoud Abbas at the Turkish parliament on
Tuesday will contribute to peace in the Middle East.' [2]
Two months before President Peres' visit, in an ultimate act of war,
Israeli jets used Turkey's airspace to launch a bombing raid on the Syrian
territory. To this day, Mr Erdogan has remained silent about this incident.
Turkey's PM Erdogan receives the ADL's `Courage to Care' award from ADL
National Director Abraham Foxman, ADL headquarters, New York, 10 June 2005
Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan receives Anti-Defamation
League's (ADL) `Courage to Care' award from ADL's director Abraham
Foxman
at the ADL headquarters, New York, 10 June 2005
In accepting an award from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on behalf of
[Turkey's] diplomats who saved Jews during the Holocaust, Turkish Prime
Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan strongly condemned anti-Semitism and stressed
his country's close relationship with the modern State of Israel. [6]
On the same day, Mr Erdogan conducted an interview with the New York Times:
'Turkey cannot in any way approve of oppressive regimes, and at this point
there is nothing Turkey can take as an example from Syria, while there is
lots that Syria can take as examples from Turkey.' [7]
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Turkey's Prime Minister Recep
Tayyip Erdogan, Jerusalem, 1 May 2005
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon (2001-2006) and Turkey's Prime Minister
Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Jerusalem, 1 May 2005
Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan invited Prime Minister Sharon to visit
Turkey. [=85] Erdogan said that the Turkish government views anti-Semitism
as a crime against humanity. [8] Ahead of a meeting with his Israeli
counterpart Ariel Sharon, Erdogan held talks with President Moshe Katsav
[2000-2007] [...] `We have to drain the swamp of terrorism. We have to
show solidarity in our common war against terrorism,' Erdogan was quoted
as
saying in a statement issued by Katsav's office. [9]
Back in October 2002, in a campaign speech delivered six month prior to his
first electoral win, Mr Erdogan said:
`Sharon is unleashing state terrorism upon Palestine. Sharon must be
prosecuted just like Milosevic was [at the International Criminal Court] in
The Hague.' [10]
Turkey's PM Erdogan receives the ADL's `Courage to Care' award from ADL
National Director Abraham Foxman, ADL headquarters, New York, 10 June 2005
Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan receives the `Profiles in
Courage' award from American Jewish Congress (AJC) President Jack Rosen,
HSBC headquarters in New York, 26 January 2004. The person standing next to
Mr Rosen is the President and Chief Executive Officer of HSBC USA Martin
Glynn.
In his acceptance speech, Mr Erdogan echoed U.S. President George Bush and
UK Prime Minister Tony Blair [11]:
`Today, with the presentation of the `Profile of Courage' award to the
Turkish Prime Minister of the Republic of Turkey, by the American Jewish
Congress at the New York building of HSBC, there is a strong message being
conveyed to archaic terrorist mentality. We will not tolerate terrorism and
we will act in solidarity to wipe it from the face of the earth. Our
country is against all kinds of terrorism and we support the United States
in its efforts in combating international terrorism whole-heartedly.' [12]
Targeting two synagogues, HSBC bank headquarters and the British Embassy,
the November 2003 bomb attacks in Istanbul bear the hallmarks of an Al
Qaeda false-flag operation. Furthermore, only three months ago, two
suspects and the solicitor of the alleged mastermind were killed in Aleppo
whilst fighting NATO's proxy war against the Syrian Army. [13]
A report published a month before the Istanbul bombings indicates the
actual motive behind the ADL award:
The Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA), an influential
Jewish group based in Washington, praised the Turkish Parliament's decision
[on October 7th, 2003] to allow the deployment of peacekeepers [i.e.
troops] in Iraq and said the move boosted U.S. confidence in Turkey. That
might also give a privileged position to Turkey in garnering contracts in
the reconstruction of Iraq, the institute said in a statement. [14]
notes:
American Jewish Congress (AJC), Anti-Defamation League's (ADL) and
Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA) are all prominent
Zionist organisations in the United States.
The quotes from the Turkish sources have been translated by Cem Ertür.
sources:
[1] Erdogan: Er ya da gec katledilen o masum yavrucaklarin hesabi mutlaka
ama mutlaka sorulacaktir
[Erdogan: Sooner or later there will be a holding to account for the
massacre of these innocent children]
Milliyet, 17 November 2012
http://siyaset.milliyet.com.tr/erdogan-er-ya-da-gec-katledilen-o-masum-yavrucaklarin-hesabi-mutlaka-ama-mutlaka-sorulacaktir/siyaset/siyasetdetay/17.11.2012/1628623/default.htm
[2] Turkish premier, Israeli president agree cooperation needed in region
BBC Monitoring European, 13 November 2007
[3] AK Parti Grup Baskani ve Basbakan Sayin Recep Tayyip Erdogan'in 13 Ocak
2009 Tarihli Grup Konusmasi
[Speech delivered by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the Justice and
Development Party's parliamentary group meeting on January 13th, 2009]
AK Parti website, 13 January 2009
[4] Dialogue between Erdogan and Peres
Hurriyet Daily News, 30 Janaury 2009
http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/english/domestic/10895599.asp?scr=1
[5] Ties with Israel continue to be based on mutual interests - Turkish
PM
BBC Monitoring European, 16 February 2009
link to the original source in Turkish:
http://www.sabah.com.tr/Yazarlar/safak/2009/02/15/Davos_secim_degil_tarih_malzemesi
[6] Prime Minister Erdogan Tells ADL That `Anti-Semitism Has No Place in
Turkey'
ADL website, 10 June 2005
http://www.adl.org/PresRele/ASInt_13/4730_13.htm
[7] Turkish Leader Spells Out More Vigorous Role in Iraq
by Warren Hoge, New York Times, 11 June 2005
http://travel.nytimes.com/2005/06/11/international/europe/11erdogan.html
[8] PM Sharon met with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan
[Israeli] Prime Minister's Office, 1 May 2005
[9] Erdogan says Turkey, Israel must unite to drain `swamp of terror'
AFP, 1 May 2005
[10] Saron Lahey'de yargilansin
[Sharon must be prosecuted at The Hague]
Yeni Safak, 14 April 2002
http://yenisafak.com.tr/arsiv/2002/nisan/14/politika.html
[11] President Bush, Prime Minister Hold Joint Press Conference
U.S. Department of State website, 20 November 2003
http://2001-2009.state.gov/p/eur/rls/rm/2003/26458.htm
[12] Turkish PM to AJC Congress: We will wipe terrorism from the face of
the earth
American Jewish Congress website, 27 January 2004
http://www.ajcongress.org/site/PageServer?pagename=jan04_04
[13] Here are Tayyip's `real sons'
Sendika.org, 17 August 2012
http://www.sendika.org/yazi.php?yazi_no=47187
[14] US Jewish group praises Turkish decision to send troops to Iraq
Turkish Daily News, 11 October 2003
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/default.aspx?pageid=438&n=us-jewish-group-praises-turkish-decision-to-send-troops-to-iraq-2003-10-11