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WikiLeaks: Turkish PM ‘Hates’ Israel

ANKARA (AFP)—Turkey’s Islamist-rooted prime minister “simply hates Israel” on religious grounds, U.S. cables released by WikiLeaks say, reflecting growing U.S. misgivings over Ankara’s foreign policy.

The scathing assessment comes in a memo on a conversation with Israeli ambassador to Turkey, Gabby Levy, about Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s frequent outbursts against Israel following the Jewish state’s devastating war on the Gaza Strip last year.

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5 Comments

  1. Israel is far from perfect (I’ll never be thrilled with its decades long humiliation of the Palestinians and its lobbying on behalf of Turkey) but I do agree that it is the only somewhat normal state in the region. I do not have much faith in any Muslim country ever being truly open, democratic, reasonable or even magnanimous. With regards to Iran, I can see that after reading wikiieaks that Israel is very upfront and honest while the Arab states are the ones working the back channels and playing games’ they want the US to attack Iran but will be the first to complain. The Middle East is a zero-sum game.

  2. This is where things get really silly and show how Wiki leaks offer uncritical indulgence in personal trivialities rather than an explanation of anything. “Turkish PM ‘Hates’ Israel”. Give me a break! Who thinks that explains  two client states of the US  jockeying to be the main players in the region? The writing is on the wall: the US and Israel, as well as “enlightened, secular Turks”, want a restoration of Kemalism. The gossip about Erdogan can only help get things there. Oh, what a relief that will be!

  3. Hye, turkish destruction of our Woodrow Wilson memorial, under our noses, in our national capitol city of Washington DC has been pursued… for, remembering President Woodrow Wilson’s position against the turks (certainly for the Armenian’s surivivors of the Turkish Genocide of the Armenian nation).  All these years, nearly 100 years later,
    the turk is invading the capitol city of the United States of America in order to ‘assault’ the Woodrow Wilson memorial, using extraordinary monies to accomplish all – boldly, as bullies are wont to do, ‘under our noses’!  Even the ex-congressman who (recently and
    conveniently retired) shall have known these actions of the turks against our own President Wilson’s memorial, created by American citizens, for a fine dedicated, and highly educated president of our nation.  Imagine, he graduated from Princeton University, became president of Princeton, later even became President Wilson of the United States of America.  The bullying, the absolute self-obssessed turks, in their inhumanity think they have the rights to enter this memorium, their goal to be to actively use obscene monies to DARE to ‘eliminate’ an American icons memorial.  Thus
    the turks, who call themselves ‘the best ally of the USA’ – but just because the turks say this – stretching truths – for the truth being, it is the USA leaderships, misdirected, who have been the ‘best’ ally of the turks… who today, via Wilsons’ memorial, obviously and without any rights… choose to enter and destroy that which belongs to Americans!  Thus is the evidence of the turk mentality – a turkey for turks… as if and as though the turks
    have earned the Armenian lands, properties, wealths (upon which today’s turkey wealth is built upon) from the 19th, 20th, and now 21st centuries having ‘gotten away with murders and worse… For, the cycle of Genocides still perpetrated by turkey ongoing and unending – is what the turks share with the civilized nations of the world…  Why wars, when Genocides are ‘easier’…’eliminate and steal’ and then offer denials to a world… and too, Genocides will continue on our planet as long the perpetrators choose…
    Manooshag  
    P.S. APrinceton University president,too, the President of the USA vs ……

  4. what a silly article… i felt like i just read a conversation written down in a school playground. please. politics is politics but this article cant be taken seriously. very biased. media should not be biased

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