Tuesday, 16 February, 2021 - 18:00
Kemal Kilicdaroglu, leader of Turkey s main opposition Republican People s Party (CHP), attends a news conference in Ankara, Turkey June 26, 2018. (Reuters) Asharq Al-Awsat
Turkish opposition parties pressed President Recep Tayyip Erdogan s government on Tuesday for answers over what they called a failed cross-border mission to rescue 13 captive Turks who were killed by PKK militants in northern Iraq.
In a fierce parliamentary debate two days after Ankara broke news of the killings in a cave in Iraq s Gara region, Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu rejected opposition criticism and said Turkey did everything we could to bring our martyrs back alive .
Turkish police detained more than 700 people, including members of a pro-Kurdish political party, in operations against the PKK militia following the killing of 13 Turkish captives in northern Iraq, the Interior Ministry said on Monday.
Turkey: Anti-Semitism was widespread in 2020
Turkey: Anti-Semitism was widespread in 2020
Many leading figures from government authorities to political opposition and the media spread Jew-hatred in a country that is a NATO member and a candidate for European Union membership.
(February 8, 2021 / JNS) “The Holocaust story is exaggerated,” “Israel does not get enough of blood and wealth,” “Jews kidnapped Christian children and performed rituals with their blood,” “Jews has sent coronavirus to Turkey to exterminate Turks” …
Those were some of the Jew-hating statements publicly made in Turkey in 2020 by authors, newspapers, members of the public and even the president of the country.
Voice of America.
Akit TV, notorious for its Jew-hating reporting, trimmed, distorted and cherry-picked parts of the documentary to further spread antisemitism in Turkey. Sentences and images in the documentary were cut and the statements of the Jewish interviewees living in Turkey were altered in an attempt to make Jews a target. Among the Turkish Jews targeted were lawyer Betsy Penso, scholar Rifat Bali and Ivo Molinas, the editor-in-chief of the Jewish weekly
Şalom, among others.
6. The pro-government newspaper
Yeni Akit published a report repeating the “blood libel” and “the barrel with needles” lies that caused widespread Jew-hatred and persecution in medieval and early modern history.
Dec 23, 2020
For much of 2020, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan relied on foreign-policy adventurism to divert attention from Turkey’s economic crisis and his AK Party’s political travails. His aggressive forays in Libya, Nagorno-Karabakh and the Eastern Mediterranean helped overshadow the political reversals of the previous year, when the AKP lost local elections in major cities none more embarrassing than that of Erdogan’s old stronghold of Istanbul and a significant decline in membership.
But the strategy may have reached its limits: Neither investors nor the general public seem to be buying Erdogan’s promise of a new economic era. More generally, the president and his party seem to be losing the confidence of large political constituencies, including urbanites and young conservatives.