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    TURKISH LEADER ACCUSES 'JEWISH LOBBY' OF PLOT TO TOPPLE REGIME

    Algemeiner
    Feb 10 2015

    by Steven Emerson

    Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said that his government would
    not give into the "Jewish lobby," which he claims is working against
    the ruling AKP Party.

    "I announce it from here: we have not and will not succumb to the
    Jewish lobby, the Armenian lobby or the Turkish-Greek minority's
    lobbies," Davutoglu said at a party gathering Sunday.

    Arbitrary references to the "Jewish lobby" in the Muslim world can be
    construed as anti-Semitic sentiment without factual evidence supporting
    such claims. Leaders in various countries have historically blamed
    Jews and Israel for internal woes to alleviate domestic pressure
    and propagate the concept of an external enemy in order to cultivate
    regime legitimacy.

    The vague allegations come in the context of baseless accusations
    by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who says that Mossad,
    the Israeli intelligence service, was cooperating with the "parallel
    structure," or members within the government allegedly seeking to
    topple the regime.

    "The sincere people backing this parallel structure should see with
    whom this structure is cooperating with ... Shame on them if they
    still cannot see that this structure is cooperating with the Mossad,"
    Erdogan said on January 31.

    Key Turkish leaders have made numerous controversial and anti-Semitic
    statements in the past. Last year, Erdogan compared Israel to Hitler
    and predicted that the Jewish state "will drown in the blood that
    they shed" at a rally before his presidential election. The Turkish
    president has also referred to Israel as a "crime against humanity."

    His government actively supports Hamas, a designated terrorist
    organization that is committed to the Jewish state's destruction.

    Other senior Turkish officials have also blamed their country's
    problems on Jews.

    The ruling AKP party mayor of Ankara also referenced the popular summer
    2013 anti-government protests in Gezi as "a game of the Jewish lobby."

    "World powers and the Jewish Diaspora prompted the unrest and have
    actively encouraged it," said now former Turkish deputy prime minister
    Besir Atalay in July 2013.

    http://www.algemeiner.com/2015/02/10/turkish-leader-accuses-jewish-lobby-of-plot-to-topple-regime/

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