“The house of Togarmah (Turkey) of the north quarters, and all his bands: and many people with them… In the latter years they shall come against… Israel.” – Ezekiel 38:6 & 8
“Thus saith the LORD.. I will contend with them that contend with Israel.” – Isaiah 49:25
THE TIMES OF ISRAEL reports: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday that Ankara “firmly backs” Palestinian terror group Hamas amid its ongoing war with Israel in the Gaza Strip, triggered by its October 7 killing spree across southern Israel.
“No one can make us qualify Hamas as a terrorist organization,” he said in a speech in Istanbul. “Turkey is a country that speaks openly with Hamas leaders and firmly backs them.”
Hamas is listed as a terror organization by the US, Israel, the UK, the European Union, Canada, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, and other countries.
In October, Erdogan claimed that Hamas was “not a terrorist organization” but “a group of mujahideen defending their lands.” “Mujahideen” is an Arabic term for those engaged in jihad, or holy war.
On Saturday, he claimed that “Netanyahu and his administration, with their crimes against humanity in Gaza, are writing their names next to Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin, like today’s Nazis.”
The Turkish president has been one of the most virulent critics of Israel since the start of the war in Gaza, which began on October 7 after thousands of Hamas-led terrorists burst into Israel by air, land and sea, murdering some 1,200 people and kidnapping another 253, mostly civilians, many amid horrific acts of brutality and sexual assault.
Vowing to destroy Hamas, Israel has responded with a wide-scale ground and air campaign. The IDF says it has killed over 13,000 operatives in Gaza, in addition to some 1,000 terrorists inside Israel on October 7.
Erdogan has not officially condemned Hamas’s slaughter of Israeli civilians.
In December, Erdogan called Netanyahu “worse than Hitler,” said the systematic slaughter of six million Jews in the Holocaust was not as bad as Israel’s war with Hamas in Gaza, and likened Israel’s treatment of Palestinians in the Strip to that of Jews rounded up in concentration and death camps.
His government also maintains strong ties with Hamas, and Turkey has hosted some of its leaders… (Continue reading)
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