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By Rachel Levy
Turkey's President-elect Recep Tayyip Erdogan is scoring major PR at home via Gaza, thru Israel.
Hamas set up cells in Judea and Samaria and Jerusalem and planned terrorist attacks on Temple Mount.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
"I was amazed and pleased that a rabbi would call the Islamization of Europe a good thing. Likewise I believe an all Jewish Europe would be a great thing too," Turk said.
Turkey is evacuating wounded Gazans to Ankara hospitals, in cooperation with Israel and Egypt.
Erdoğan is now Turkeys first-ever elected president.
ISIS has warned Turkey to open the Atatürk dam, or else they're next...
The news that the Chief Rabbinate withdrew kosher supervisors from Turkish plants in the face of Israel’s war in Gaza is part of what some kashrus organizations call “working in a more dangerous world.” They recall the murder of two kosher supervisors in Mumbai in December 2008, and extremists have recently threatened more terror in […]
Qatar's wealth and Turkey's size should not preclude us from telling it as it is: Qatar and Turkey are among the worst villains in the Gaza tragedy.
Obama has chosen shaky ally on the way out over strong ally solidly in the American orbit.
After investigation of a suspicion shipping container, security officials have determined...
“He had a hopped-up 'cycle that took off like a gun/That fool was the terror of Highway 101 - ‘ from the song “Black Denim Trousers.”
By Rachel Levy
The Obama administration casts Hamas in the light of a legitimate organization, not the terror group it is listed as by the US itself.
2010 cruise to Gaza ended so well, 'humanitarian activists' want to try it all again.
Kerry is consistent. He has talked so much and promised so much that, like the peace process, his ceasefire delivered nothing.
By Shalom Bear
We're waiting to hear back if there will be a cease fire this afternoon. The terms grant Hamas political legitimacy.
By Shalom Bear
Thousands of Israelis in Turkey have been trapped there due to the war with Gaza.
By Rachel Levy
Israel needs an ally in talks over a premature cease fire with Hamas terrorists intent on wiping out the Jewish State.
Palestinian Authority President Abu Mazen said Wednesday that he will spend the next few days trying to convince the international community to broker a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. Thursday, the PA leader will visit Cairo to discuss President Abed Fattah el-Sisi's ceasefire initiative, which was rejected yesterday by Hamas. From there, he will continue […]
By Shalom Bear
Hamas's Salach Al-Aruri has been funding terror cells in Judea and Samara for years with one target goal - to kidnap Israelis.
Turkey has evacuated its staff from the city of Basra, located in southern Iraq.
For the first time since 2008, Iran's president has arrived in Turkey on a state visit.
A Turkish court has issued arrest warrants for four ex-IDF officers over the deaths of 10 Turkish citizens on board the Mavi Marmara.
Additional fatality from 2010 attack brings Mavi Marmara toll to 10; Ankara rejects Israel 'compensation' offer
By JTA
Israel’s embassy in Turkey canceled a celebration of Israel’s Independence Day and President Shimon Peres sent a letter of condolence to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan following the mine collapse Wednesday in Manisa that trapped more than 700 miners underground. Erdogan said Wednesday that 238 miners had died and more than 200 remain trapped, while 363 […]
Turkey “will strongly support the reconciliation agreement and offer all humanitarian aid” for the Hamas-Fatah unity government that was announced Wednesday, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu told Gaza’s de facto prime minister Ismail Haniyeh. Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan became a fan of Hamas five years ago, at the same time relations with Israel […]
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
Israel helps bring freedom to Turkey - what more can you say?
Turks expect that Facebook will be unreachable by Friday.
There are three words that explain Israel’s rejuvenated ties with Turkey: Iran, Syria and money.
Netanyahu does as Obama says, Israel looks stupid and makes Erdogan the Chump look like a champ.
More than 80 dignitaries from across the political spectrum are concerned about the future U.S. relations with Turkey.
Al Qaeda terrorists already have set up three bases in Turkey after having established a presence in Syria, IDF Intelligence Chief Maj.- Gen. Aviv Kochavi told a national security conference in Tel Aviv. "Syria is projecting its conflict to the whole region. Those blotches (on the map) in Turkey are no mistake by the graphic […]
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is visiting Ayatollah Khamenei of Iran, which he called “our second home. The ayatollah in return “described the current brotherly and friendly relations between the two countries as unparalleled in recent centuries,” Iran’s official Press TV reported. Erdogan apparently has made another about face in his roller coaster policies […]
By JTA
Treasury Undersecretary David Cohen, the top Obama administration official monitoring Iran sanctions compliance, will visit Turkey and the United Arab Emirates. The Treasury Department announcement Monday casts this week’s visit in the context of making sure nations still comply with the main sanctions even as a number of sanctions have been removed while talks, known […]
Turkish police raised a Muslim charity front that is allegedly linked to Al Qaeda and arrested several people, including one who works for the IHH group that kidnapped and brutally assaulted IDF commandos who stopped their Mavi Mamara ship and other boats from reaching embargoed Gaza. The “Humanitarian Relief Foundation” said police raided their warehouse […]
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, sounding more and more like Syrian President Bassar al-Assad, has blamed foreigners for supposedly engineering the corruption probe that has rocked his government. He appealed directly to the people with a populist cry to support him against some foreign enemy attacking "the bread on your table, the money in […]
After a half decade hiatus due to security disagreements, Israel is set to resume Israeli flights to Turkey in Summer 2014. Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz announced today that the disagreement resulting from security arrangements in Turkey have been resolved. The agreement to resume flights was signed today after Turkey acquiesced to Israel's security requirements. Turkish […]
By JTA
Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.), a co-chairman of the Congressional caucus on Turkey, pressed the Turkish foreign minister on reports of Antisemitism and human rights abuses in his country. Cohen said he asked Ahmet Davutoglu when the caucus met Monday with a Turkish delegation about reports of a surge of Antisemitism of the repression of dissent […]
By JTA
Get set for the silly jokes and serious attempts to compare Thanksgiving with Chanukah. You may have only one more chance in your lifetime to enjoy, or suffer, cranberry latkes.
Lately, the pro-Western coalition has begun to crumble, and two key countries - Saudi Arabia and Egypt - are searching for a new political crutch.
By JTA
U.S. sales of drones to Turkey are still under consideration. “The United States continues to work through our approach to exporting unmanned systems to our closest allies, including Turkey,” a Pentagon official told JTA on Tuesday. The official would not comment directly on reports originating in the Turkish press that the Obama administration had canceled […]
The US canceled a 10 Predator Drone deal with Turkey. Speculation centers on Turkey's increasing relations with Iran.
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
Israel’s enemies could start a zoo with all the animals they have caught as being spies. Now it’s an eagle’s turn to join the growing collection of Zionist animals on the front lines.
By JTA
Two students from Turkey were arrested in Poland for using a Nazi salute on a group of Israeli students visiting the Majdanek concentration camp. The students made the Nazi salute and said “Heil Hitler” when they met a group of students from Israel according to Turkey's Today’s Zaman newspaper. The Israeli group filed an official complaint, leading […]
By Shalom Bear
Hamas continues to reach out to fellow radical Islamists following the fall of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt.
A new law Turkish law breaks a 90-year-old ban on Muslims wearing the veil at university or at government work offices and reflects the growing Islamic influence on the once secular government. The secular Turkish republic in 1925 banned civil servants from wearing overt symbols of religious affiliation, That presumably includes the kippa, for those […]
It is chutzpa but no surprise that Syria told the U.N. the “terrorist” rebellion is its 9/11. It is a surprise that the US delegates did not throw him out of the General Assembly.
Turkish planes shot down a Syrian Helicopter which Turkey claims was flying 2 kilometers inside their airspace, according to an AFP report on Monday. Turkey claims to have warned the Syrians a few times to exit their airspace, before hitting the helicopter with a missile. The helicopter reportedly crashed on Syrian soil.
By Sevda Gözler
We have a big problem with cognitive dissonance in most Arab countries.
The White House announced Monday that more than dozen more countries have formally backed a “strong international response" to the use of chemical weapons in Syria. The United States now has the support of 24 countries, not including Israel which has tried to lay low. The list includes an interesting collection of allies, such as […]
The US, Israel and others might be hit with chemical weapons if they attack, says Assad. But would he use them? Of course not. Not him. But there always is Hezbollah. Or rebels. But not Assad. Never.
By Barry Rubin
The bottom line is the belief that if the Muslim Brotherhood is kept happy it won’t cause any trouble.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s anti-Israel rhetoric is interfering with Turkish-Israeli cooperation that could turn Turkey into a regional energy base to ship Israeli natural gas to Europe. “Their inability to complete a pipeline deal would hurt Turkish ambitions to become a regional transit center and mean continued dependence on Russia and Iran for […]
When Erdogan blames Israel for bringing down Morsi, the government condemns him, but it stays silent when a far more dangerous man, an Israeli preacher, says the same thing to Arab citizens of Israel.
Egypt said it is “bewildered” over Erdogan’s blaming Israel for Morsi’s ouster. The US said he was “offensive.” But the piece de resistance came from Avigdor Lieberman, who called him the new Goebbels.
By JTA
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Israel was behind last month’s military coup in Egypt. Erdogan told a meeting of the provincial chairs of his ruling Justice and Development, or AKP, party that he has evidence that Israel was involved in the July 3 overthrow of Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, the Turkish Hurriyet news […]
Israel’s Garin Tzabar program, supporting ‘lone soldiers’ with no family in Israel, recently welcomed close to 360 young women and men from around the world into its care.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Israeli government issued an unequivocal travel advisory on Monday warning Israelis to avoid visiting Turkey, a popular vacation destination for Israelis over the summer and during the upcoming Jewish holidays, Israel Hayom reported. The Prime Minister’s Office issued its routine semi-annual travel warning, formulated by the office’s Counterterrorism Bureau, stating that all non-essential visits […]
Turkey has warned Lebanon, that if the two Turkish pilots kidnapped last week aren't released, it will damage the ties between the two countries.
By JTA
An Israeli energy company has announced plans to export natural gas via pipelines through Turkey and other countries in the Middle East. The Delek Group, the parent firm for several energy and gas exploration companies, said in its new prospectus that it plans to export some of the newly discovered natural gas off the Mediterranean […]
By Barry Rubin
Did President Obama have to lie in a UN speech?
Mehmet, perhaps the world’s most famous Muslim who is not a head of state, is a righteous and proud Ambassador of his faith and feels an innate kinship and brotherhood with the Jewish people.
Egypt has ditched Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s latest attempt to show his love for Hamas by visiting Gaza, the Egyptian Youm7 website reported. The military that threw out and then arrested Muslim Brotherhood president Mohammed Morsi is staging an open war against the Brotherhood and its offspring Hamas, which it created decades ago. […]
Look up in the sky. Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Is it Superman? No, it’s a big, dumb Turkey, the kind that is full of stuff that even a pig would not swallow.
Kerry’s working with actors who have acted in this movie before, and the script is built around the same elements. But the theater is new.
Police in Istanbul fired water cannons and tear gas at thousands of protesters in Taksim Square. Protesters converged on the site Saturday, blatantly disregarding warnings to stay away. Organizers said they intended to march into the adjacent park that has been cordoned off by police. The area has been the site of anti-government protests and […]
Turkey's political leadership - fearing for their own future - denounces ouster of Morsi and demands Egypt "return to democracy."
Iraqi, Jordanian, and Turkish border guards are pushing back tens of thousands of people trying to flee Syria, Human Rights Watch charged on Monday. “Iraq, Jordan, and Turkey have either closed numerous border crossings entirely or allowed only limited numbers of Syrians to cross, leaving tens of thousands stranded in dangerous conditions in Syria’s conflict-ridden […]
Turkish premier Recep Tayyip Erdogan will visit Gaza next Friday, even though he said earlier this week that protested against his government have forced him to suspend plans to honor Hamas with a visit. A Palestinian Authority newspaper quoted the Hamas regime’s secretary Abdulsalam Siyam as saying that two Turkish officials and several journalists already […]
Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Tuesday he cannot visit Gaza as planned because of the protest movement in his country but that he could "make a surprise any time." He has been saying for two years that he will visit the Hamas-controlled region, a trip that would boost the terrorist organization’s stature. However, […]
The scholars at the American Enterprise Institute responded to the age-old effort to blame the Jews mostly with humor, but also with a suggestion for Erdogan. If he wants to see who is responsible for Turkey's situation, he should hold up a mirror.
Iran and the US don’t have to go to war. They already are there. Obama arms Sunni rebels. Iran sends Hezbollah Shi’ites to help Assad. And Israel prays it won’t get the dirty end of the stick.
Erdogan goes berserk. One hour after delivering an ultimatum to protesters to leave Taksim Square, police attacked them with rubber bullets and tear gas, injuring drivers as well.
A referendum might be held on the future of Gezi Park in Istanbul.
Common enemies, Iran and Syria, have brought Israel and Turkey together. The Mossad chief reportedly flew to Ankara for a pow-wow Turkish intelligence. Is Assad linked to Turkish protests?
American exceptionalism emerged out of a society which empowered the creative talents of the individual but through the simple virtue of leaving men alone to do their work.
Turkish riot police stormed Taksim Square early Tuesday morning and clashed with protesters, one day before protests leaders were to meet with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Authorities said the police only entered the area '”to clear the banners and flags on [a] statue and the AKM cultural center." However, they also told the […]
Erdogan’s ruling party uncovers terror “deadlier than a car bomb.” It’s called Twitter ,and Turkey will carry out counterterrorist measures to ban Twitter “slander.” Now the world can sleep better.
By Barry Rubin
You have a massive counterterrorist project costing $1 trillion but when it comes down to it the thing repeatedly fails.
Erdogan is sounding more like Assad and Mubarak every day. Protesters were vandals,. Now they are terrorists. He is making every mistake possible, fueling the protest movement by insulting it.
Two prominent Turkish Israeli communal leaders speak out about events in Turkey. According to Eyal Peretz, chairman of Arkadash, an organization promoting the Turkish community in Israel, “The Jewish minority in a very extreme fundamentalist state is not a positive situation. Of course a secular state is a much better situation for minorities. I hope […]
Erdogan blamed the "financial lobby" for Turkey's unrest and recent economic troubles. Sound familiar?
The demonstrations against Erdoğan stem from a sense among his opposition that he has crossed the line in Turkey.
Turkey is burning. Nine days of riots. Three dead. Erdogan’s police arrest society’s enemy – Twitters. Now, a Turkish doctor charges police are using Condoleezza Rice gas, a chemical agent.
By Robert Ellis
Alcohol consumption fell by a third from 2003 to 2008.
Syria returns the favor, in light of the escalating violence in Turkey.
You find the rats when the ship sinks. The Iranian dictatorship used to love the Hamas dictatorship until Hamas opposed the Assad dictatorship. Hamas asks, “How could Ahmadinejad support a dictator?”
Sen. John McCain Monday slipped into Syria from Turkey Monday and met with Syrian rebel leaders, who appealed for direct U.S. military aid, the Daily Beast reported. Sen. McCain has been outspoken in his harsh criticism of the Obama administration for not having helped the rebels long ago to topple the regime of Syrian President […]
By Elad Uzan
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan was educated within an anti-Jewish political framework.
An alliance between Turkey and Israel will make the current Syrian regime tremble in their boots.
By Barry Rubin
With a 'friend' like Erdogan, Obama’s policy toward Syria, Iran, the advance of revolutionary Islamism, and the Israel-Palestinian “peace process,” is in serious trouble.
Now is the time for Ankara to take some corrective domestic and foreign policy measures consistent with what the country has and continues to aspire for but fails to realize.
Syria aims missiles at Israel. Lebanon on alert. Israel moves Iron Domes to the north. War? If war were likely, Bibi would not be in China. The IDF already has re-opened air space in the north.
Despite the risks, Ozbudak believes that 'someone should speak up and say the truth, so others can follow.'
By JTA
Gravestones and bones from an 18th century Turkish Jewish cemetery 20 feet underground were unearthed during construction on an underground tunnel in the city of Izmi, the Hurriyet Daily News reported Wednesday. The gravestones were left in the ground and the bones were delivered to representatives of Izmir's Jewish community, who will rebury them in […]
Iranian spies were caught in Turkey and India lat year. Now it is Nepal’s turn, and this time the Israeli Embassy caught the spy, who used a fake Israeli passport.
Kerry showed Ankara how much the Boston Marathon bombings affected him. Now he understands why Turks are angry at Israel for the Mavi Mamara flotilla clash. Go figure.
Turkey and Israel once were good friends until Erdogan went berserk when Israel defended itself against Gaza missiles and then Turkish terrorists. But the Iranian threat has a way of uniting old friends.
By Daniel Pipes
On the happy day when Assad & Tehran fight the rebels & Ankara to mutual exhaustion, Western support then can go to non-Baathist and non-Islamist elements in Syria.
The valuable Cypriot gas fields are located halfway between the Cypriot and Israeli coast.
July 3, 2026 
