*Shrug* President Erdogan, who aims to be neo-Ottoman Sultan Recep Tayip Erdogan I, “the much beloved”, heads the party that is the Turkish branch of the Muslim Brotherhood. Of course he can’t see Hamas, the Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, as beyond the Pale.
[GEO.TV] In his most assertive statement to date on the Gazoo...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about
oppressionand
disproportionate response...
conflict, Ottoman Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan stated Wednesday that Hamas
...a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...was not a terrorist organization but rather a group working for the liberation and protection of Paleostinian lands and people.
"Hamas is not a terrorist organization, it is a liberation group, 'mujahideen' waging a battle to protect its lands and people," he told politicians from his ruling AK Party, using an Arabic word denoting those who fight for their faith.
Unlike many of its NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all....
allies and the European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
,
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire...
does not consider Hamas a terrorist organization and hosts members of the group on its territory.
Erdogan also slammed Western powers for supporting Israel's bombing of Gaza and called for an immediate ceasefire, the unhindered entry of humanitarian aid
into Gaza, and for Moslem countries to work together to stop the violence."The perpetrators of the massacre and the destruction taking place in Gaza are those providing unlimited support for Israel," Erdogan said. "Israel's attacks on Gaza, for both itself and those supporting them, amount to murder and mental illness."