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RT_Erdogan forbid the Arabic signs in Istanbul which is the official Quran alphabet

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Islam for Turks is a Tools not a religion 

Officials from the Esenyurt Municipality in İstanbul on Friday removed signs in Arabic from district shops, in a neighborhood densely populated by Syrian refugees, in line with a recently adopted Turkish Standards Institute (TSE) rule that says the Turkish language should be a priority in signs.

The TSE announced in March that if shopkeepers want to use foreign languages, the type size of those words should be a quarter of the size of Turkish type.

In a written statement the municipality said they had received complaints from district residents who could not understand the signs.

Esenyurt has the densest Syrian refugee population in İstanbul, according to Mayor Ali Murat Alatepe, who warned Syrians to obey the rule just like everybody else.

Alatepe also briefed the press in the statement, saying municipal officials had closed down shops that could not pass hygiene inspections during the week.

In April 2017 the Adana Metropolitan Municipality also removed signs in Arabic “in order to protect the Turkish language.”

There are more than 10,000 businesses, including shops and factories, run by Syrian refugees in Turkey, according to a recent survey.

Fox-TV’s Devastating Attack On Turkey and Pres. Erdogan Video

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By Harut Sassounian,

As the conflict between Turkey and United States is heating up, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is too stupid to realize that by continuing to hold American Pastor Andrew Brunson on trumped-up charges, he is undermining Turkey’s economy and its membership in NATO. Any other intelligent Turkish leader would have released Pastor Brunson a long time ago and maintained military and trade relations with the United States.
 
Even though the Turkish government is paying millions of dollars a year to hire high-powered American lobbying and public relations firms, none of them can protect Turkey’s reputation from Erdogan’s erratic behavior. Every time he opens his mouth and takes an inept action, Erdogan further damages Turkey’s relations with other countries, reminding the world and reinforcing the long-established image of the “Barbarian Turk.”
 


Here is an example of the negative PR generated by Erdogan against his own country in the American media. Lisa “Kennedy” Montgomery on Fox Business TV, Pres. Trump’s favorite channel, delivered the following devastating attack against Pres. Erdogan on August 16, 2018. In addition to millions of Americans who watched her commentary on TV, 662,000 others saw it on Facebook and many more on Twitter. Kennedy even mentioned the Armenian Genocide, as a way of getting back at Turkey!
“How do I despise thee Erdogan? Let me count the ways. The Turkish president is putting his country in a diplomatic pickle by refusing to free an American Pastor over ‘terrorism charges.’ The fake crime is a bunch of hot malarkey, a rancid plate of Turkish non-delight; and although Erdogan has been concentrating his power to fake elections, imprisoning journalists, and purging academics, he didn’t bet that he would be strong-armed by another strong man. Our president has had it up to his eyeballs with Turkey trolling, and instead of empty words, Pres. Trump is offering a full-throttled digital slap to Erdogan, tweeting: ‘I have just authorized a doubling of Tariffs on Steel and Aluminum with respect to Turkey as their currency, the Turkish Lira, slides rapidly downward against our very strong Dollar! Aluminum will now be 20% and Steel 50%. Our relations with Turkey are not good at this time!’”
 
Kennedy continued her criticism by stating: “When were they [relations with Turkey] ever good? The Turkish government is a disgrace, and past administrations have either coddled them or sat idly by while they’ve rolled out the welcome mat and threw the door open for ISIS, all while cozying up to Russia. This is not our strategic partner. This is a corrupt, murderous regime that should be kicked out of NATO for a host of human rights violations, not to mention deep kissing the Russians who are supposedly the biggest regional threat. Now, sure, there have been counter-threats. Now Erdogan is saying he will pull the iPhone off the market as if the people there can use the device to mobilize, enrich themselves or seek freedom from a murderous regime that wants total control, and is willing to tank the global economy to prove a childish point! And while we are at it, and while the president [Trump] is hot under the collar, if he really wants to make his new party pal Kim Kardashian happy, he should officially, and once and for all, acknowledge the Armenian Genocide which was not ‘an issue’ or ‘a series of unfortunate events,’ but a cold-blooded slaughter of 1.5 million people whose memory will not be erased by any Napoleonic nincompoop. Release Pastor Andrew Brunson, President Erdogan, and fear [Pres. Trump’s National Security Advisor John R. Bolton’s] moustache [as] Bolton is mongering, so for the sake of world peace put up and shut up so you don’t get blown up!”
 
To make matters worse for Erdogan, Pres. Trump told American journalists on August 17, 2018: “Turkey has been a problem for a long time. They have not acted as a friend. We will see what happens. They have a wonderful Christian pastor. He is a wonderful man, Pastor Brunson. They made this phony charge that he is a spy, and he is not a spy. He is going through a trial right now, if you call it a ‘trial.’ They should have given him back a long time ago. And Turkey has, in my opinion, acted very, very badly. So we have not seen the last of that. We are not going to take it sitting down. They can’t take our people. So you will see what happens!”
 
Before Armenians get too impressed with Pres. Trump’s threatening words, they must remember that despite Turkey’s anti-U.S. and anti-NATO policies for several decades, the West has kept heaping praises on Turkish leaders. No one in the West has had the guts to put Turkey in its place. If tomorrow, the unpredictable Erdogan releases Pastor Brunson, I am afraid Pres. Trump will start praising Erdogan once again, as he has done with Kim Jong Un of North Korea and Vladimir Putin of Russia.
 
Pres. Trump should not forget that in addition to holding Pastor Brunson, Turkey invaded and occupied Northern Cyprus in 1974, banned the crossing of American troops into Northern Iraq from Turkey during the Iraq War, attacked the Kurdish allies of the United States in Northern Syria, is planning to purchase the Russian S-400 missile system contrary to NATO’s admonition, helped circumvent U.S. sanctions on Iran, and supported the entry of ISIS terrorists to Syria from Turkey.
 
Even after Pastor Brunson is liberated, Turkey should not be forgiven for its many indiscretions. As numerous analysts have recently suggested, Turkey should be immediately kicked out of NATO!



Erdoğan ratchets up anti-U.S. rhetoric through in religion and flag amid US pressure

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Erdoğan ratchets up anti-U.S. rhetoric

An attack on the Turkish economy is no different from a strike against the flag, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said, referring to US economic pressure on his country.

“The attack on our economy has absolutely no difference from attacks on our call to prayer and our flag,” he said referring to the recent Turkish currency crisis, triggered by US economic pressure.

Erdogan spoke in a video message ahead of the Muslim Eid al-Adha festival.

“The goal is the same. The goal is to bring Turkey and the Turkish people to their knees, to take it prisoner.”

“Those who think they can make Turkey give in with the exchange rate will soon see that they are mistaken,” Erdogan added.

Turkey’s national currency, the lira, has recently plunged to unprecedented lows amid the rift between the two NATO allies, Ankara and Washington. Earlier, the Turkish leader called on the country’s citizens to sell foreign currencies to support the lira in “domestic and national struggle.”

Relations between the US and Turkey have been souring lately, with another downshift occurring after a Turkish court rejected an appeal for release from US pastor Andrew Brunson. The decision triggered an angry reaction from US President Donald Trump, who said Washington would not take the matter “sitting down.” 

The two NATO allies have also been engaged in what appears to be another trade war for America. Earlier this month, US President Donald Trump doubled steel and aluminum tariffs on Turkish imports. In response Ankara announced tariffs on imports of certain goods from the US, including cars, alcohol, and tobacco.

Daily mail WikiLeaks reveals 57,000 emails from Erdogan son-in-law connection to ISIS

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  • Erdogan son-in-law

    WikiLeaks has released a tranche of personal emails from the account of Turkey‘s Minister of Oil Berat Albayrak

  • The emails span a six-year period from 2000 to 2016 and allegedly reveal his level of influence in the country’s political scene
  • The emails appear to have been obtained by Turkish hacktivist group Redhack

WikiLeaks has released a tranche of more than 57,000 personal emails from the account of Turkey’s Minister of Oil Berat Albayrak.

Albayrak is the son-in-law of the country’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan. 

The emails span a six-year period from 2000 to 2016 and allegedly reveal his level of influence in the country’s political scene.

The emails appear to have been obtained by Turkish hacktivist group Redhack, and which threatened to make his communications public back in September.

The emails, which allegedly contain details of exchanges between Albayrak and the Turkish ‘ruling elite’ were briefly published earlier this year, before being taken down following a crackdown by the Turkish government.

WikiLeaks alleges that the emails reveal ‘Albayrak’s involvement in organisations such as Powertrans, the company implicated in Isis oil imports’. 

The company has been implicated in oil imports from ISIS-controlled oil fields. 

Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4006568/WikiLeaks-reveals-57-000-emails-son-law-President-Erdogan-proving-connection-ISIS-operation-smuggling-oil-Turkey.html

 

Kammenos: Arrests of Greek soldiers carried out on Erdogan’s orders

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The arrests of the two Greek soldiers who are being detained in Turkey since March after accidentally crossing a borderline between the two countries were carried out on the orders of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Greece’s Defense Minister Panos Kammenos has said.

In comments made during a radio interview on Wednesday, Kammenos said the two were arrested so that they could be eventually exchanged for the eight Turkish servicemen who fled to Greece after the botched coup against Erdogan in 2016.

“I do not think this was a random act. They found an opportunity on a night with snow to put their plan into action,” Kammenos told Real FM.

Greek officials have repeatedly ruled out the possibility of a swap.

Erdoğan’s Turkey: Unwanted in Arab Lands

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  • Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at an anti-Israel rally in Istanbul, Turkey on May 18, 2018. (Photo by Getty Images)

    “[Erdogan] does not even understand that Turks are not Arabs and Arabs have no intention go back to Ottoman rule.” — Arab attaché.

  • Erdoğan in fact has succeeded in a rare achievement: making his country equally unloved by Muslim nations and Israel at the same time.

“We remain most curious,” an Arab defense attaché told this author one evening, “how an intelligent man like [Turkish President Recep Tayyip] Erdoğan stubbornly fails to understand that his services are simply unwanted in the Arab world … How he does not even understand that Turks are not Arabs and Arabs have no intention [to] go back to Ottoman rule.” The Arab smiled and added: “Just because he champions the Palestinian cause does not make him a friend of Arabs.”

In addition to his ideological kinship with Hamas and other militant Palestinian groups, Erdoğan has been more Arab than the Arabs when it comes to the Arab-Israeli dispute. Erdoğan has apparently been hoping to win allies in the anti-Israeli bloc and votes at home where Palestine is a “holy cause.” He has repeatedly called on the Muslim world to unite against Israel.

In a 2017 summit of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, Erdoğan’s Turkey spearheaded the idea of a “Muslim army” that would surround Israel. “Those who think Jerusalem belongs to them today will not be able to find a tree to hide behind tomorrow,” said Erdoğan. Earlier this year Erdoğan called on Muslim leaders to unite against and confront Israel.

As Zvi Bar’el wrote in Haaretz, “Erdoğan wanted an empire but must suffice with an unloved country”. His Muslim “allies” have divergent interests, policies and calculations, often obscured further by sectarian differences. They often fall apart even on common “holy causes” such as Palestine.

 

Donald Trump the Pro Turkish dictator Erdogan, opposes congressional restrictions on F-35 sale to Turkey

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The Armenian National Committee of American, In Defense of Christians and the Hellenic American Leadership Council expressed sharp disappointment Friday over the Trump Administration’s newly revealed opposition to Congressional restrictions upon the sale of advanced F-35 aircraft to Turkey.The Trump Administration relayed its position in a letter from Mick Mulvaney, Director of the Office of the Management and the Budget, to Senator Richard Shelby, the Chairman of the Committee on Appropriations, Asbarez reports. In his letter, Director Mulvaney wrote:

The Administration opposes section 7046(d)(3) of the [Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations] bill that restricts the use of funding for the transfer of F-35 aircraft to Turkey.

Turkey is an important NATO ally, and has been an international participant with the F-35 program since 2002. The Administration shares the Congress’s concerns over recent Turkish actions but opposes language that preemptively restricts its ability to work with Turkey to address those concerns.ANCA, IDC and HALC categorically reject the Administration’s position:“President Trump’s opposition to the bipartisan consensus around common-sense restrictions on the reckless transfer of F-35 aircraft to Turkey dramatically reduces American leverage, undercutting our ability to secure either Turkey’s release of Pastor Andrew Brunson or to prevent Turkey’s purchase of Russian S-400 anti-aircraft missiles.

Sadly, by taking this short-sighted stand, President Trump is signaling weakness, seriously undermining America’s negotiating position toward Erdogan’s Turkey.

We encourage Congressional leaders to move quickly to enact statutory restrictions on F-35 and other advanced weapons sales/transfers to Turkey, and, more broadly, to undertake a long over-due policy review of U.S. relations with the increasingly hostile Turkish regime.”

 

Erdogan Start his new administration with nepotism at the top son-in-law as finance minister

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has named his son-in-law as the country’s finance minister after being sworn in to another five-year term, BBC reported.

The appointment of Berat Albayrak, who had served as energy minister since 2015, appeared to rattle the markets. Mr Erdogan, who was re-elected last month, vowed to “propel our country forward” with his sweeping new powers. But his opponents fear that his new role as executive president will destroy Turkish democracy.

Mr Erdogan’s new position marks a transition away from a parliamentary system and the office of prime minister, which has been in place since the foundation of the modern Turkish republic 95 years ago. It allows him to appoint ministers and vice-presidents and intervene in the legal system.

After taking the oath of office in parliament on Monday, Mr Erdogan told guests at the presidential palace in the capital, Ankara, that Turkey was “making a new start”.

“We are leaving behind the system that has in the past cost our country a heavy price in political and economic chaos,” he said.

It is noted that Berat Albayrak, the 40-year-old husband of the president’s eldest daughter, has had experience in government but his promotion has raised fears of nepotism at the top.

Greek Cypriots should ‘welcome Erdogan with flowers’

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Greek Cypriots should welcome Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan with flowers when he visits northern Cyprus next week, the head of the National Unity Party (UBP), Huseyin Ozgurgun has reportedly said.

According to Turkish Cypriot daily, Kibris, Ozgurgun on Wednesday, Ozgurgun said that if it were not for Turkey, the Greek Cypriots would not live on the island in peace and tranquillity.

Erdogan is set to visit the north on July 10, his first visit after bring sworn in again after his recent re-election.

In statements to Turkish Dogan news agency (DHA), Ozgurgun  dismissed as ‘nonsense’ comments made by the Greek Cypriot negotiator Andreas Mavroyiannis expressing the Republic of Cyprus’ disapproval of Erdogan’s visit.

“Mavroyiannis or the Greek Cypriot leadership should come to Ercan [Tymbou airport] holding flowers.  If it was not for our Turkey, the Greek Cypriots also would not live on the island in peace and tranquillity. We, as Turkish Cypriots, are proud, happy. Our President, Mr Erdogan loves us, he loves the Turkish Cypriot people. If our Turkey did not exist, we would also not exist,” said Ozgurgun.

Commenting on references in Greek Cypriot social media that Erdogan should meet with President Anastasiades, Ozgurgun described them as “propaganda”. If Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras visits the Turkish Cypriot leader, he said, then Erdogan will visit Anastasiades.

During his visit, according to reports, Erdogan will officially open the Hala Sultan mosque in Mia Milia.

Source: http://cyprus-mail.com/2018/07/04/greek-cypriots-should-welcome-erdogan-with-flowers/

Turkish dictator Erdogan to Visit Occupied Cyprus

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Erdogan to Visit Occupied Cyprus

Turkish media are reporting that Recep Tayyip Erdogan will visit northern Cyprus next week shortly after being inaugurated as president.

His visit on Monday to occupied Cyprus will see him oversee the opening of a new huge mosque north of Nicosia, according to the DHA news agency.

It follows late June’s electoral triumph which saw Erdogan returned as president and his AK Party form a parliamentary alliance with Turkish ultranationalists. Many international observers said the contest was not held in fair conditions, with the country’s media largely ignoring opposition parties and candidates.

In recent months there has been an ongoing war of words between Athens and Ankara regarding sovereignty in the Aegean Sea and the conflict over Cyprus.