{"article":{"id":257289,"heading":"A Zionist in disguise: Prime Minister Erdogan\u2019s phony anti-Israel rhetoric","author":"Cem Ert\u00fcr","created":"2012-12-01 18:37:48","modified":"2026-10-25 17:02:54","last_modified":"Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:02:54","article":"
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\r\nA\r\nZionist in disguise: Prime Minister Erdogan’s phony\r\nanti-Israel rhetoric<\/span><\/span>
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\r\nIsraeli\r\nPresident Shimon Peres toasts\r\nwith Turkey's President Abdullah Gul and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip\r\nErdogan at a dinner in his honour, Cankaya presidential residence,\r\nAnkara, 12 November 2007<\/span>
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“I\r\nthanked Mr Peres for his efforts to\r\ndefeat a bill in the US House of Representatives that defines the\r\nincidents of 1915 from an Armenian perspective. I sincerely hope that\r\nPeres' visit to Ankara will contribute to peace in the Middle East. The\r\nspeeches to be delivered by Peres and Palestinian President [sic]\r\nMahmoud Abbas at the Turkish parliament on Tuesday will contribute to\r\npeace in the Middle East.”  [2]
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\r\nTwo months before President Peres’ visit, in an ultimate act\r\nof war,\r\nIsraeli jets used Turkey’s airspace to launch a bombing raid\r\non the\r\nSyrian territory. To this day, Mr Erdogan has remained silent about\r\nthis incident.
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\r\nTurkey’s\r\nPrime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan receives Anti-Defamation League's\r\n(ADL) ‘Courage to Care’ award from ADL’s\r\ndirector Abraham Foxman at the ADL headquarters, New York, 10 June 2005<\/span>
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In\r\naccepting an award from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on behalf of\r\n[Turkey’s] diplomats who saved Jews during the Holocaust,\r\nTurkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan strongly condemned\r\nanti-Semitism and stressed his country's close relationship with the\r\nmodern State of Israel.  [6]
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\r\n<\/div>\r\nOn the same day, Mr Erdogan conducted an interview with the New York\r\nTimes:
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\r\n''Turkey cannot in any way approve of oppressive regimes, and at this\r\npoint there is nothing Turkey can take as an example from Syria, while\r\nthere is lots that Syria can take as examples from Turkey.'' \r\n[7]
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\r\n \n","contact":"","link":"http:\/\/www.indybay.org\/newsitems\/2012\/11\/30\/18726804.php","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/html","summary":"Mr Erdogan\u2019s Cairo visit took place in the midst of Israel\u2019s eight-day war on Gaza. Notwithstanding his habitual posturing over Israel\u2019s war crimes, the focal point of his speech at the Cairo University was Syria. The fact remains that for the past 20 years, Turkey, Israel and NATO have maintained a high level of military and political cooperation against Iraq, Iran, Syria and the resistance groups in Palestine and Lebanon. Furthermore, since April 2011, Mr Erdogan\u2019s government has been thoroughly complicit in NATO\u2019s war crimes in Syria.","numcomment":0,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2012\/12\/257289.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[]}