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  • Turkish Premier Says Turkey Won't "Succumb" To Jewish, Armenian Lobb

    PREMIER SAYS TURKEY WON'T "SUCCUMB" TO JEWISH, ARMENIAN LOBBIES

    Deutsche Presse-Agentur, Germany
    February 9, 2015 Monday 8:29 AM EST

    Istanbul

    DPA POLITICS Turkey politics Premier says Turkey won't "succumb" to
    Jewish, Armenian lobbies Istanbul Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said
    Turkey will not "succumb" to pressure from special interest groups,
    including the Jewish and Armenian lobbies, the state-run Anadolu news
    agency reported.

    "We will not succumb to the Jewish lobby, the Armenian lobby or the
    Greek lobby," Davutoglu said on Sunday night.

    Davutoglu appeared to be responding to a sharply critical opinion
    piece published in The New York Times last week by Fethullah Gulen,
    a US-based Turkish Muslim cleric who has been locked in a feud with
    President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, his former ally.

    Gulen's article lamented what he saw as the rolling back of democratic
    reforms in Turkey and said the current government was "leading the
    country toward totalitarianism."

    The government charges that Gulen is running a "parallel state,"
    and Davutoglu said he would not bow to his rival's lobby either.

    The authorities have carried out sweeping detentions against supporters
    of Gulen, including police officers and journalists. Many have since
    been released.

    Turkey heads to parliamentary elections in June.

    In April, Armenians will mark the centenary of the 1915 massacres in
    Turkey which many deem a genocide.

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