Addressing lawmakers in Ankara, Turkish president says the Palestinian people have lived in the capital ‘for thousands of years’.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Thursday implied that Jerusalem belongs to Turkey, referring to the Ottoman Empire’s control over the city for much of the modern era.
“In this city that we had to leave in tears during the First World War, it is still possible to come across traces of the Ottoman resistance. So Jerusalem is our city, a city from us,” he told Turkish lawmakers during a major policy speech in Ankara. “Our first qibla [direction of prayer in Islam] al-Aqsa and the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem are the symbolic mosques of our faith. In addition, this city is home to the holy places of Christianity and Judaism.”
The Ottoman Empire ruled over Jerusalem from 1516 to 1917. Modern Turkey, its successor state, has long stressed its enduring connection to the holy city, regularly condemning Israel’s alleged efforts to “judaize” it and the US administration’s December 2017 recognition of it as Israel’s capital.
President @RTErdogan: “We consider it an honour on behalf of our country and nation to express the rights of the oppressed Palestinian people on every platform, with whom we have lived for centuries.” pic.twitter.com/yCcfrrc5RY
— Turkish Presidency (@trpresidency) October 1, 2020
“Another crisis that our country and our nation carefully follow is the oppression of Israel against the Palestinians and the indifferent practices that disregard the privacy of Jerusalem,” he said toward the end of his address.
“The issue of Jerusalem is not an ordinary geopolitical problem for us. First of all, the current physical appearance of the Old City, which is the heart of Jerusalem, was built by Suleiman the Magnificent, with its walls, bazaar, and many buildings. Our ancestors showed their respect for centuries by keeping this city in high esteem.”
The Palestinian people have been living in Jerusalem “for thousands of years,” but they were occupied and had their rights violated, the Turkish leader went on.
He went on to vow to “pay close attention” to the Palestinian issue.
“We consider it an honor on behalf of our country and nation to express the rights of the oppressed Palestinian people on every platform, with whom we have lived for centuries,” he said. “With this understanding, we will follow both the Palestinian cause, which is the bleeding wound of the global conscience, and the Jerusalem case to the end.”
The Israeli Foreign Ministry declined to comment on Erdoğan’s speech.
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Hahahhahahaa! What a blowhard!
Erdoğan, Come and take it Coward!
Turkey, Syria and North Africa were Christian lands for centuries before the muslims murderers invaded.
Soooooo, GTFO of ALL conquered Christian lands and go back to the f#@kin desert you came from.
Mr. Erdogan –
You need to join the human race. Jerusalem is Israel’s, not Turkey’s Stop lying to yourself and the rest of the world.
Claiming another country’s land is rude and makes you look irrelevant. Why don’t you take care of the people you have?
@ LaVIE, You must be a Jew because only a Jew would say what you have said. Actually, Erdogan is correct in so far that the British (Zionist-Jews) attacked the Ottoman Empire in order to destroy it and occupy Palestine in order to eventually hand Palestine over to the thieving Zionist Jews after the Jews got America into the first world war to save Britain and steal Christian Germany’s victory. The Zionist-Jews theft of Palestine makes the fake Jews look irrelevant. No one should ever ask the Jews to join the human race because they are not human, they are Satanic beasts. The fact remains that Palestine is stolen Arab land and remains Arab land in spite of the thieving Jews.
Leave Britain and go back to the f#@kin desert you came from.
The thieving Jews have said that they don’t want to leave their land of milk and honey, Britain, and go back to the f#@kin dessert called Israel.